AppHelp

You may be reading this because you are one of the nearly 3.5 million Visual Basic programmers in the world who have made Visual Basic the most popular Windows programming language in history.

Windows Forms is the platform for classic Microsoft Windows application development. Providing help for your application is one of the things you should not skip. Use the appropriate type of help that is tailored to the needs of your application. It is sometimes better to create and use HTMLHelp files (CHM), but sometimes it is sufficient to just have pop-up help or ToolTips.

The examples will give you some ideas on how to build a help system in .NET. Building help systems under the .NET Framework with VS.NET is different than building help systems with the old Visual Studio 6.0.

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