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Make your CHM Help Files show HTML5 and CSS3 content
Want to get your CHM files to display content in HTML5 and CSS rather than the stock IE7 quirks more rendering used by default? This blog post describes how you can take advantage of newer HTML and CSS specs in your CHM files.
<see> Tags in XML Comments in C#
I'm fixing few issues in Help Builder related to HTML comments and how they are imported into Help Builder. While I'm working with this I'm checking things in VB and C# and I have to say that VB manages embedded <see> tags a heck of a lot nicer than C#. .In VB what happens as you type a...
Using Html Help Builder in Visual Studio 2008
Couple of people asked me over the last few days whether the Help Builder Visual Studio integration works with Orcas and the answer is yes. Automatic installation in Visual Studio 2008 will be provided with the next update shortly but there are a few small things that need to get addressed for this...
West Wind Html Help Builder Update
I've put out an updated version of Help Builder today. Here are a few development perspective comments on this release. Code Pasting This update adds a handful of new features in regards to handling code in topic content. If you've been following my blog you've probably seen some of the...
RTF to HTML Conversion
I've had a real frustrating day to day trying to find a solution for properly pasting code from Visual Studio and Visual FoxPro into Help Builder. Currently the way this process works is that you can either choose to paste code as text and then mark it up manually by highlighting the block and then...
Cleaning up a Win32 Application to work under Vista
So for the last few days I've been going through the final steps of updating Help Builder to properly run under Windows Vista without any file permissions, registry or other sort of elevation requirements. In theory the application should run fine after installation without any sort of crutch like...
Help Builder 4.40 Preview Update Posted
I've posted a preview update of Help Builder 4.40 for existing customers of Help Builder (or those trying the demo). I typically don't do this sort of thing for Help Builder, however, this update has a number of fairly major internal re-organizations that deal with Vista compatibility as well as a...
West Wind Html Help Builder Update
I’ve posted an update to Help Builder today after a while of neglecting that product <s>. Actually, I’ve been quietly fixing a number of small issues and bugs that have been reported on the bug report site for Help Builder. Most of these have been minor but possibly annoying issues and quite...