Connecting HTML Help to Visual Basic Programs

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things that you could not do otherwise (like use Training Card Help) and works with both Visual Basic 5 and. Visual Basic 6. It comes with its own tutorial, …

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Connecting HTML Help to Visual Basic Programs
by Don Lammers
Copyright 1999-2000 by Don Lammers. All rights reserved.
Last updated 2000-10-23
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Scope……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..1
Acknowledgements ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….1
Connecting Context Sensitive HTML Help to Visual Basic……………………………………………………………………2
Calling HTML Help Directly from Your Visual Basic Code ………………………………………………………………….8
Using the Common Dialog Control to Call HTML Help………………………………………………………………………14
Training Cards from Visual Basic……………………………………………………………………………………………………..14
Resources ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..14
Scope
If you are trying to call HTML Help from Visual Basic I generally recommend using David Liske’s Help
subclassing module and tutorial available at http://mvps.org/htmlhelpcenter. It makes life a lot easier, lets you do
things that you could not do otherwise (like use Training Card Help) and works with both Visual Basic 5 and
Visual Basic 6. It comes with its own tutorial, so I will not attempt to explain it here.
However, it always helps to understand how the original was designed to work before trying to override its
functionality. Or you may have a project that does not need any more functionality than is provided by
Microsoft. This document is intended to show you how to hook HTML Help to Visual Basic 6 and later without
using add-ons. Earlier versions of Visual Basic will require you…