How to Add Context-Sensitive Help to Visual Basic .NET Windows …

Short Description
Visual Basic .NET Windows based applications by making it easier for users to ….. Publisher Tutorial by selecting ‘Run the Help Publisher Tutorial’ from …

Website: www.indigoware.com | Filesize: 149kb

Content
Indigoware White Paper
V2.0 Copyright . 2004-2005 Indigoware Ltd Page 1 of 12
How to Add Context-Sensitive Help to
Visual Basic .NET Windows Applications
Why add context-sensitive Help?
Adding context-sensitive Help can greatly improve the usability of your Microsoft
Visual Basic .NET Windows based applications by making it easier for users to
teach themselves how to use the application. The benefits are twofold; users
gain additional benefits by using more features of the application and support
costs are reduced.
If the development team or technical authors have gone to the trouble of writing a
comprehensive Help file, then it makes sense to make the small extra effort
required to make the information it contains as easy for the user to access as
possible. By using Indigoware’s Help Publisher for Visual Studio in conjunction
with Microsoft Visual Basic .NET, providing context-sensitive Help can be a
straightforward task.
How users can access context-sensitive Help
There are four main methods for users to access context-sensitive Help:
?Through a Help button on a Windows Form. This is the most intuitive
method from the user’s point of view as it does not require any…