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For my VB6 help files (really has nothing to do with the language), I use a
mixture of two utilities.

The first, shown below, is extremely cheap and easy to use but requires that
you have an html editor of your own (like FrontPage)

Pocket CHM Pro
http://www.flyskysoft.com/pchmpro/index.html

This one's specifically geared toward .Net (but I use it for VB6 help anyway
<g>) but it's no where near cheap and imo, not so easy to use.

West Wind HTML Help Builder
http://www.west-wind.com/wwHelp/

The "Cadillac" of all, priced way out of my range, is RoboHelp.... which, I
just noticed, like InstallShield, has been "bought out" by Macromedia...
which means they probably don't have a clue if you need help.... which you
probably won't since it's such a great program (I demo'd it a couple of
years back and it's all they claim it to be) but still.

Macromedia RoboHelp X5
http://www.macromedia.com/software/robohelp/?promoid=BINZ

Who knows what'll happen to InstallShield/RoboHelp with the Adobe deal goes
through <shudder>

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Ken Halter - MS-MVP-VB (visiting from VB6 world) - http://www.vbsight.com
Please keep all discussions in the groups..

I need suggestions for creating a Help system for a Visual Basic Program.

We have a requirement to provide "on-line help" to our Visual Basic program.
What I believe they mean is the sort of Help functionality that one normally
sees in C++ generated program.

Does anyone have any suggestions?

I have been told that the file type is a .CHM file that the help system uses.
Is there a Help Component in Visual Basic?

What I would really like to do is to have the user choose between having the
help be displayed in either .CHM or .HTM format. So, is there a web browser
component in Visual Basic too?

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