[Mono-list] Need help: writing a COM control.

[Guenther Roith]

Hi!

The help thing is called MSHelp 2

No COM help, but I have 2 sources that _might_ help you to access the files
(and possibly convert them):


Visual Studio .NET Help Integration Kit 2.1:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/release.asp?ReleaseID=37972

Only works if you have Visual Studio (Framework is not enough, so I couldn't
try it)

Also more information is here:
http://www.help-guide.de/ (Help 2.0)

However, it might help not, too ;-)



What data exactly do you want get?
The Source when you right-click in the Browser?


Johannes







----- Original Message -----
From: "Miguel de Icaza" <miguel@ximian.com>
To: <mono-list@ximian.com>
Sent: Sunday, August 11, 2002 1:11 PM
Subject: [Mono-list] Need help: writing a COM control.


> Hello guys,
>
>     I usually find myself traveling and without the desire to boot
> VMware.  The only reason to start up VMWare is to read the online
> documentation for the .NET Framework.
>
>     Ideally, we would have our own documentation, but we do not have it
> yet.  So what I want to do is pull all the data from the existing
> Microsoft implementation, and dump it into HTML that I can later view
> from Linux when am traveling.
>
>     I found that they have a control that handles the `ms-help:' prefix
> (indeed, the URL would work just fine under IE).  But the API is an
> internal API, so it is not easy to figure out what arguments to pass to
> it.  Even with this, I was able to write a simple C# program that could
> load the index, and return a list of topics, but I was stopped there.
>
>     Since the `ms-help:' happens to be some kind of handler that IE
> uses, I wonder if it is possible to write a COM control that would allow
> me to pull the stream of data that would be rendered by the ms-help:
> control.
>
>      Once this is done, I could safely write a little program to pull
> all the data and copy it over to Linux to browse.  I know its possible,
> I just do not know enough COM to pull this out.
>
> Miguel.
>
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