Help Integration

This section provides information about integrating and connecting context-sensitive Help.

In This Section

• Help Integration Essentials
  Explains important information about how to create one-to-one relationships between objects in the Visual Studio integrated development environment (IDE) and Help topics.

• About Context-Sensitive Help
  Explains how Help authors and developers collaborate to create context-sensitive Help.

• Connecting Context-Sensitive Help
  Includes procedures for connecting context-sensitive Help to different components.

• Custom "How Do I" Pages
  Discusses How Do I pages, and provides a link to a topic that details how to provide a custom How Do I page.

• Help Command-Line Programs
  Discusses the command line tools available to compile, merge, and register Help collections.

• Help Integration Reference
  Contains links to general reference topics that pertain to Help integration.

• Help Error Messages
  Describes the error messages associated with the Help integration command line tools.

• Inserting the Table of Contents of a Child Collection into a Parent Collection
  Provides instructions for inserting your TOC into a parent Help collection.

Related Sections

• Help Authoring and Integration
  Explains how to author Help content and how to integrate Help with your product or component.

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