Best way to deploy help files in my application

Hi,

From everyone's experience, what is the best way to deploy help information to an application? I would like help text to be available to pretty much every individual component on my forms. Do I need any special applications to create my help?

Thanks,

Matt.

How much do you know about a Setup project? In the setup project I would recommend putting it in the application folder and making a shortcut to it in the start menu along with your program.
If you feel that you don't need a setup project then I would suggest just putting your files in a zip folder for distribution.

Sorry, I don't think I explained myself properly.

I meant more along the lines of how to actually create a help file from scratch and use it with my application. I would like a user to be able to right click on any control on my form and ask for help with that specific control.

Thanks,

Matt.

Right, I see. See if this article helps you out, be sure to look at the documentation links:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/htmlhelp/html/vsconHH1Start.asp
It covers .chm files which is what you are probably going to want.

Wow, complex stuff. Looks like it will take longer to write than the application itself!

Thanks for the help, I'll be writing it next :cool:

Matt.