Microsoft Help Viewer
Developer(s)Microsoft
Operating systemMicrosoft Windows
PredecessorMicrosoft Help 2
TypeHelp system

Microsoft Help Viewer (HV) is the offline help system (local help) developed by Microsoft that ships with Visual Studio 2010 and its associated MSDN Library.

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Microsoft Help Viewer 1.x supersedes Microsoft Help 2 which is the help system used by Microsoft Visual Studio 2002/2003/2005/2008 and Office 2007. It is shipped with VS 2010. Microsoft Help Viewer 2.x is backwards-compatible with 1.x and is shipped with the operating system as well as VS 2012+.

This is a new product and does not use any of the old help 2 code base. During development it was referred to as MS Help 3.x. With the growing need for a general Unicode based help system, it has the potential of becoming the next general help system for Windows.

History[edit]

  • Jan 2008 - April Reagan [MS PM] blogs that Microsoft will replace Microsoft Help 2.
  • Apr 2009 - At WritersUA 2009 conference April Reagan and Anand Raman announced Microsoft Help 3 will ship with Visual Studio 2010.
  • Nov 2009 - Preview of new offline help ships with the VS 2010 Beta 2.
  • Jan 2010 - Formal name changed from Microsoft Help 3.0 to Microsoft Help Viewer 1.0
  • April 2010 - Microsoft Help Viewer 1.0 is RTM (Release to Manufacturing) as part of the Visual Studio 2010 release.
  • March 2011 - Microsoft Help Viewer 1.1 ships with Service Pack 1 of Visual Studio 2010.
  • August 2012 - Microsoft Help Viewer 2.0 ships with Visual Studio 2012 and the Windows 8 OS.

The HelpPane Viewer is found in Windows 10. The version appears to be 2.3.

User Experience[edit]

The user experience for Microsoft Help Viewer 1.x is that topics can be viewed in any installed web browser – a separate application, such as the Microsoft Document Explorer included with Microsoft Help 2, is not necessary. The browser-based model is meant to provide a more lightweight navigation, downloading, and reading experience than earlier help-viewer models.

Visual Studio 2010 includes a taskbar applet in the Windows notification area (system tray) that arbitrates between viewing offline help and online help in the browser when F1 is pressed, and resolves help topic URIs to the proper topic page. It also includes a 'library manager' application to manage the download, installation and uninstallation of help topics on the system, as well as whether to prefer online help when connected to the Internet.

Programming

Microsoft Help Viewer 2.0 uses a COM runtime library, so the taskbar applet is no longer used. The format is unchanged.[1] The runtime API is accessible via .NET dlls used in VS2012 and Windows 8; they are equivalent except for a name change.[2] VS2012 ships a more sophiscated toolkit (HlpViewer and HlpCtntMgr), while Windows 8 only has a one-pane HelpPane program.[3]

File format[edit]

Help files from Microsoft Help Viewer have a .mshc file extension. They are ordinary Zip files containing HTML documents. Special meta tags are provided for navigation, and there is support for signing the help bundle.[4]

References[edit]

  1. ^'Help Viewer - MSHelpWiki'. mshelpwiki.helpmvp.com.
  2. ^'HV2 API Calls - Microsoft Help Viewer 2.0'. helpware hv2.
  3. ^'Microsoft Help Viewer 2.0'. hv2 ,helpmvp.
  4. ^'Help File Format - Microsoft Help Viewer 2.0'. helpware hv2.

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External links[edit]

Retrieved from 'https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Microsoft_Help_Viewer&oldid=952518472'



Help Explorer Viewer is a help viewer for both Windows and Linux that gives you a way to use help files in Windows' WinHelp, MS HTML Help 1.x and MS Help 2.0 formats with your applications, no matter under which operating system - Windows or Linux - your applications are deployed. Since the Windows Vista has optional support of WinHelp files, Help Explorer Viewer comes in handy.
There is no more need to devise a new help format for Linux and build a viewer for it. Just prepare your Linux documentation in any of the generally adopted Windows help formats, distribute Help Explorer Viewer with your application and your users will be able to read the documentation under Linux as if they are reading it under Windows. The HTML engine that is built in Help Explorer Viewer renders topics retaining their original format.
A full range of the WinHelp API including the macro engine, popup windows, quick links, dynamic HTML and other features will be at your disposal as a software developer. You will also get a capability to view help collections to which your HTML Help 2 files are integrated.
Help Explorer Viewer can be activated from your applications using the API, which enables context sensitive help.
Help Explorer Viewer utilizes all of the search mechanisms that are available in Windows help systems. The table of contents, which is a hierarchy of topics in the order how the help author placed them. The index, which is a list of keywords that the help author associated with certain topics. And a common 'key phrase' search, which is based on consequent scanning of all topics.
You can customize the user interface of Help Explorer Viewer as your needs dictate: you can create and hide windows, configure the toolbar and the main menu and dynamically redirect demonstrations of pages.
So, by using Help Explorer Viewer you will be able to provide your applications with a help system that is easy to use and effectively assists users in mastering your applications.

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