Visual Basic® .NET by Example

HelpProvider Component

In addition to the Help class, supporting help in your Windows application is also accomplished by using the System.Windows.Forms.HelpProvider component. The HelpProvider component allows you to associate a particular help file with your application or form. This is necessary in order to support context-sensitive help described in section and the following next section.

A Help Provider component can be added to a form by dragging it from the Toolbox and dropping it onto a form or by adding it to a form manually through code. After it is added, you need to set the HelpNamespace property that defines the help file to use. Once the help file is defined, you add code to call specific methods on the HelpProvider component depending ...