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CHM is the proprietary help file format generated by Microsoft HTMLHelp Workshop (hhw.exe). It's HTML based help, so topics are required in HTML and supplemented by the used *.jpg, *.gif or e.g. *.svg files. Some additional files for the table of contents (.HHC)and index (.HHK) must be created. The .HHP file is needed for the Workshop project itself. HTMLHelp (HH) was first shipped with Internet Explorer 4 and Windows 95.

CHM is the proprietary help file format generated by Microsoft HTMLHelp Workshop (hhw.exe). It's HTML based help, so topics are required in HTML and supplemented by the used *.jpg, *.gif or e.g. *.svg files. Some additional files for the table of contents (.HHC)and index (.HHK) must be created. The .HHP file is needed for the Workshop project itself.

HTMLHelp (HH) was first shipped with Internet Explorer 4 and Windows 95.

While Help2 and Help3 exist, these mostly are limited to MSDN as delivered with Visual Studio.

While Microsoft did launch a newer helpformat with Vista (Assistance Platform help), CHM is still the most widely used helpformat under Windows.

Multiplatform viewers for this format exist for *nixes, see kchmviewer, gnochm, xchm, but these might not emulate all MSIE quirks.

Best open format description: http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/chmspec/

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Opening a CHM file produces: "navigation to the webpage was canceled"

I am trying to open a .chm file. I downloaded the source, extracted it, and double clicked on Waffle.chm and clicked "Open" but no matter what element in the chm file I click, I get the message: Navigation to the webpage was canceled. What you can…
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chm viewer unable to show contents

I have a chm file that I can open at home. I use windows XP at home and at work. However, when I open the file at work it doesn't show the contents of the file. It properly shows the TOC for the file though. Any ideas pls?
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How to create a chm file?

What is the best way to create a chm file? if possible, Could someone provide opensource tools for this job?
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Windows Help files - what are the options?

Back in the old days, Help was not trivial but possible: generate some funky .rtf file with special tags, run it through a compiler, and you got a WinHelp file (.hlp) that actually works really well. Then, Microsoft decided that WinHelp was not hip…
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The future direction of Help File formats

It would appear that CHM help files are no longer the help file format of choice. WinHelp - obsolete HtmlHelp (CHM) - not supported on Vista by default - does not work well on a network share Help 2 (HXS) - I understand this is used in VS2005+…
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Using F1 Help (CHM format) With WPF

I've been working on a WPF application for a while, and the time has come to attach the CHM format help document to it. But alas! HelpProvider, the standard way to show CHM files in Winforms, has magically vanished and has no counterpart in WPF.…
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Any free alternative to Robohelp?

Any free alternative to Robohelp? Prefer open source Need some sort of online help authoring tool for an open source project.
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What tools are available to create a help file in Visual Studio 2010?

I need to write a help file for a WinForms app in Visual Studio 2010. Ideally, I'd like to use a tool that integrates with Visual Studio, rather than a totally separate tool. In the past I've used HTML Help Workshop, but this is ancient, and I…
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Integrating help in a WPF application

what are the possible approaches to integrate local (so not on-line) help in a WPF application? It would be more like a manual, but I would like to integrate it in some way. EDIT: just found http://wordtoxaml.codeplex.com, I will try that one. It…
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How to convert HLP files into CHM files

I need some help, I have some .hlp files and I want to convert it to .chm files, as .hlp files don't run on Windows 10. How can I do that?
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What is a good tool for writing a user manual (help file), which integrates with version control

The people writing the user manual are not necessarily programmers, and they need a visual editor. A major issue is the internal format of the authoring tool; it should be readable text/html, so it's easy to compare versions of individual pages…
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Modern help-system for windows applications

Currently I'm in a redesign of an old Windows-Desktop-Application. One goal of the redesign is to implement a modern looking UI in Office2010-Style with Ribbons. Additional to our UI we want to implement a modern looking online-help. Currently we…
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Open a .CHM file to a Specific Topic?

I have created a .CHM file and then when I open it in c# I get the First topic. I want to open it to a specified topic. This is the code I use right now to open it. Help.ShowHelp(this, "./Resources/ServerHelp.chm"); I want to be able to open it to…
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How do you open a hxs file?

I understand that a hxs file is a compiled help file, a replacement for .chm files, but I can't seem to open them. I've read that you read them with the help explorer, dexplore.exe found here: C:\Program Files\Common Files\microsoft shared\Help…
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html to chm file under linux

I have html files/Directories, I want to convert them to .chm help file, under Linux using command lines at Terminal? Any help would be appreciated.
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