Updated: 05/13/2007

Integrate HTML Help with VB 6.0 (KB100010)

When developing Windows forms applications based upon Visual Basic (VB) 6.0 or Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) 6.0, you may often need to develop context-sensitive help for them to enable your users to obtain help on the application''s many graphical user interface (GUI) elements. Context-sensitive help is the type of helped that appears when users select (i.e., change the focus to) a particular screen element and then pressing the F1 key, which involves the Help common dialog displaying the help topic associated with the selected element. Context-sensitive help is used extensively by Windows forms applications, whether for applications developed by Microsoft or other forms-based application vendors. This article walks you through step-by-step on how to create just such a help system using the current HTML Help technology.

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