Office 2010 Styled Help

Question

Hi In Office 2010 you get a popup window if you click on ? or press F1 (Sorry for the Danish text)

Before I start coding my own popup Window in WPF, I would like to know if there is some standard behind it, like the good old .CHM file. Microsoft Compiled HTML Help

Answer 1

It is called Vista (Assistance Platform) Help.

Since I have to support XP, I haven't looked into it really (stuck to CHM), but Vista+ has some other helpsystem. I've dug the following links up from my Help link collection

• http://helpware.net/aphelp/default.htm
• http://www.help-info.de/en/Help_Info_AP_Help/ap_help.htm
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AP_Help_1.0

Microsofts Doxygen like tool "Sandcastle" also seems to use it:

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandcastle_%28software%29