Choosing a Help Format

[Robert Lauriston]

winhlp32.exe is a viewer for WinHelp (.hlp) files, which format was
supplanted by MS HTML Help (.chm) years ago. We're talking about
Microsoft Help Container (.mshc).

On Wed, Nov 27, 2013 at 4:48 PM, grant at hedgewizard.net
<grant at hedgewizard.net> wrote:
> Not only that, but MS stopped support  for the 32-bit help viewer. (
> WinHlp32.exe)
>
>> On November 27, 2013 at 9:41 AM Robert Lauriston <robert at lauriston.com>
>> wrote:
>> There's no free runtime help viewer? That would explain why no one
>> uses that format.
>>
>> On Wed, Nov 27, 2013 at 7:54 AM, Fei Min Lorente
>> <FeiMin.Lorente at onsemi.com> wrote:
>> > We’ve been in touch with Rob Chandler (creator of mshcMigrate) and he’s
>> > helped us realize that I might have been describing our challenge
>> > incorrectly. The developers are using VS 2010 to create an application
>> > that
>> > will run independently from Visual Studio, using .NET 4.0 as the
>> > framework.
>> > From everything we’ve read, it seems that MS Help Viewer only works if
>> > Visual Studio is installed; is that right?
>