- H2Viewer 1.4.6 now available
- Now uses Unicode code
- Now uses SAPI 5.x Text-To-Speech engine (Vista and Windows 7 compatible).
- Download: http://helpware.net/mshelp2/h2viewer.htm
- H3Viewer build 9 now available
- Now uses SAPI 5.x Text-To-Speech engine (Vista and Windows 7 compatible).
- Download: http://mshcmigrate.helpmvp.com/viewer
- H2Reg.exe 2.0.1 beta promoted to release status
- Version 2.0.1 is now a Unicode application.
- http://helpware.net/mshelp2/h2reg.htm
Archive for the ‘MS Help 2.x’ Category
Various updates
Friday, November 20th, 2009Unicode H2Reg.exe & H2Reg.DLL now available
Friday, May 22nd, 2009Hi all
H2Reg.exe & H2Reg.dll are now fully Unicode enabled. Please download the H2Reg v2.0 Beta from
What does this mean? It means you don’t have to be on say a Japanese PC to register a collection with file and folder names that contain Japanese characters.
The new version also contains French, German and Japanese translations.
Please email me if you have comments or just to let me know you tied it.
Rob
Namespace# 2.0 Tool
Saturday, June 7th, 2008Paul O’Rear [MS] (was a Help MVP) has finally got his Namespace# 2.0 tool released on the MS web site. And it’s free! :-)
A nice MS Help 2.0 diagnostics tool that goes beyond the features of Namespace.exe (free tool with VS SDK). It allows you to view all Help 2.0 namespaces on your system and drill into the files and information associated with each namespace.
- http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/NamespaceSharp
Click on the “Download” tab.
Great tool. Very similar features to our FAR H2 Utilities and reads Namespace information a little faster than FAR. Requires .NET 2.0 runtime (which you should already have if VS is installed).
Creating MS Help 2.x place holders
Friday, February 8th, 2008Nikolay is a FAR and H2Reg user. He’s done a nice artical on how to create what he calls MS Help 2.x place holders. That is a base collection that you can plug / unplg all your other collections into, and so keep your companies H2 docs gathered together in once place. Thanks Nikolay for sharing this!
See Nikolay’s Blog
Integrating into Office 2007 Help
Friday, March 23rd, 2007In past versions of Office we could not only integrate into Office but also into it’s online help. Friend and fellow MVP Frank Palinkas asked me how difficult it would be to do. I took up the challenge and discovered that anyone with MS Help 2.x authoring tools can integrate into Office 2007 Help (if they have a little help).
Here’s the paper on how to do it
http://helpware.net/mshelp2/CollectionWizard/Office12Help.htm
BTW Frank is very happy. We are both very impressed with Office 2007 Help Viewer, and think it should be the next Help Viewer for the masses (well we need to add in an Index).
Sandcastle – Documentation Compiler for Managed Class Libraries
Wednesday, March 21st, 2007Many of you will be aware that the NDOC open source project was discontinued in 2006. So now we look toward Sandcastle to fulfill our VS doc needs. But what exactly is Sandcastle and who are the people behind it?
Sandcastle generates both HTML Help (.chm) and MS Help 2 (VS Help) from the /// comments in your Visual Studio managed code. Unlike NDOC, Sandcastle can handle .NET Generics.
Last week the Help MVPs went to Seattle for the 2007 MVP Summit and met Anand Raman and David Wright, the creators of Sandcastle. I took my little Cannon IXUS SD900 along and was delighted when Anand gave me permission to video blog the session. Anand speaks softly in the first section so you need to turn up the volume.
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