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Doc-To-Help now uses Windows Forms controls

By David Worthington

October 1, 2008 — Help should only be a mouse click away, but adding help text to applications can require a cumbersome dialogue between application developers and technical writers. A component maker has supplemented its help-text authoring tool with a Windows Forms control to streamline how they work together.

On Sept. 19, ComponentOne released Doc-To-Help 2009, an editor for creating XML-based help content without requiring any knowledge of XML. It retails for US$900.

The editor provides an authoring interface similar to Microsoft Word, and it generates standards-compliant CSS and XML files as authors write, according to the company. As an option, toolbars are available for Microsoft FrontPage and Word as well as Adobe Dreamweaver to import content into Doc-To-Help.

Developers can use Doc-To-Help 2009 to embed context-sensitive dynamic help text into .NET applications, with a new control for Windows Forms applications, said ComponentOne product manager Dan Beall. The control eliminates the need to share context IDs by creating a help page within the application interface, and provides special key combinations that authors can use to invoke a design-time environment to map the appropriate help topic to the correct written element, he explained.

The author can lock the key combination before shipping so that end users will not be able to change the mapping, he added.

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ComponentOne releases over 30 controls for Silverlight 2
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