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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 Adding to the basic functionality provided by Microsoft's Silverlight controls, ComponentOne's suite has a variety of animation, range and vector controls. Beyond that, the company rewrote its ASP.NET controls, updated its Windows Forms and WPF controls, and previewed components for its iPhone development suite.

Component makers see 2009 as a big year for MS platforms SharePoint and Silverlight lead the way as far as Microsoft technologies go in adoption by component makers, with Model-View-Controller and .NET also seeing increased interest. SharePoint especially will see use as a platform for application development.

Third-party tools showcased at Professional Developers Conference ComponentOne has a new development kit for the iPhone and the iPod Touch, while Infragistics created a version of NetAdvantage for Silverlight. Also, Developer Express and Microsoft announced a joint code-quality effort for C#.

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