How do I use a Robohelp 8 project in a C# 2008 application?

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December 16, 2010
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I have developed a simple Robohelp 8 Project with a few topics and a small Table of Contents and glossary.

My Robohelp program is a trial version.

How do I include it in a Microsoft Visual C# 2008 file? I would like to click a button named "Help" that will launch the help file I created with Robohelp.

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Willam van Weelden

Inspiring

Hi,

You build the call of the help in the application. RoboHelp provides you with standard API's you can use to call the help. Look in %RH Installation folder%CSH API\CS.NET

If you are using WebHelp, be sure to check out: http://www.grainge.org/pages/authoring/calling_webhelp/calling_webhelp.htm

Greet,

Willam

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Anonymous

One of my co-workers used Robohelp5 and, after the .chm file was generated, was able to use code in C# to open the .chm file. I understand that code and I am confident that if I had a .chm file I could launch help in a C# application.

Does Robohelp 8 create .chm files? I was only able to find an .htm file after Generate Primary Layout button was clicked. If Robohelp8 does not use .chm files, how do I open a .htm file with C# code? Or can Robohelp8 convert a .htm file to a .chm file?

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Anonymous

Hi there

From the way you wrote this it sounds as if you did this from a command prompt.

Perhaps consider trying it this way.

If you have a keyboard with a Windows logo key, press and hold the Windows logo key, then press R and release the keys. The result should be a Run dialog.

From the Run dialog, just type

regsvr32 C:\Program Files (x86)\Adobe\Adobe RoboHelp 8\Redist\HHActiveX.dll

Then click OK.

My thought is that this will allow Windows to sort what it needs in order to register the file.

Cheers... Rick