• Creating an Application with Context-Sensitive Help

• Compiling Your Help File

• Adding Menus and Menu Options

• Adding Help for Dialog Boxes

• Adding Control Help in a Dialog Box

• Adding Context-Sensitive Help to an Existing MFC Application

• Context-Sensitive Help in an MFC Application

• Adding Context-Sensitive Help to an MFC ActiveX Control

• Adding Context-Sensitive Help to an ATL ActiveX Control

• ToolTips

• Status Bar Prompts

You can also view the .hlp file created for your project with the WINHLP32 utility (issue winhlp32 file.hlp from the command line).

For more information on context-sensitive help, see the following Knowledge Base articles (search for the article number online, in the MSDN Library Visual Studio documentation, with Search titles only cleared.):

• Q244232 : HOWTO: Add Context Help Button (? Button) to Title Bar of CPropertySheet

• Q141724 : Context-Sensitive Help in a CDialog Object

• Q167698 : Help95.exe Implements Windows 95 Style Help

• Q149343 : Implement Context-Sensitive Help for Dialog Controls

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