Windows Vista™ - AP (Assistance Platform) Help

Windows Vista introduces a breakthrough user experience and is designed to help you feel confident in your ability to view, find, and organize information and to control your computing experience.

In this section you find information which refers to help engine support in Microsoft Windows Vista™. The Assistance Platform Help (AP Help 1.x) is the help generation released and shipped with Windows Vista. Please have a look at the news section.

Windows Vista™ - Help Support

• Windows Vista - Help Engine Support
• AP Help SDK now available for OEMs via BDD 2007
• Converting WinHelp (HLP) to HTMLHelp (CHM)

AP Help - Assistance Platform Help

• AP Help - Preface
• AP Help - Technical Informationen
• AP Help - Guided Help (it rumors "no longer supported by MS")
• AP Help - Retrospect

AP Help - Tools

• xHelpMarkup - Download Decompiler/Compiler GUI
• Microsoft BDD 2007 - AP Help SDK (Workshop)
• Freeware and Shareware Tools

AP Help -

• AML - Microsoft Assistance Markup Language

• Walkthrough: Customize Help and Support

AP Help - FAQ

• FAQ
• FAQ Guided Help ((it rumors "no longer supported by MS")

AP Help - Microsoft Links

• Microsoft: Windows Vista Help and How-to (AP and AML based)
• Windows Server TechCenter Beta Site
• Office Online Help (AP and AML based)
• Assistance Platform Help Team Blog
• Microsoft: Windows Vista User Experience Guidelines

AP Help - Links

• Helpware: User Interface & User Assistance - by Rob Chandler
• Microsoft: Help that really helps - by Byron Ricks
• MSHelpWiki: Windows Vista AP Help

AP Help History - Longhorn Help

• MAML - Microsoft Assistance Markup Language
• MAML - based on DocBook
• Authoring "Longhorn" Help Content - First steps with Longhorn Build 4051

• Hyperwrite: Help.Longhorn - What is it?
• WinWriters: Microsoft "Longhorn" Help Highlights - by Matthew Ellison
• Programming Windows Help (PPT 3 MB) - Shane McRobert's at PDC2003