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Microsoft Visual Studio 2005/.NET Framework 2.0

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Collection-Level Files

By integrating your Help collection into the Visual Studio Combined Collection (VSCC), you make your Help collection a child of the VSCC parent collection. To attach one Help collection to another in this child-parent model, you must provide special collection-level files to enable the parent-child integration.

These collection-level files differ from, and are independent of, similar files that have the same file name extension as those found in your Help projects. For example, although you define a table of contents for a Help project by using a project-level table of contents (.HxT) file, you must also create a collection-level .HxT file to integrate the Help project with the VSCC. The same is true for the other collection-level files.

In This Section

Collection-level .HxC File: Describes collection definition files, which define references for all your collection-level files.

Collection-level .HxT File: Describes table of contents files, which define the structure of the table of contents for your Help collection.

Collection-level .HxK File: Describes index files, which define the index keywords and structure for your Help collection.

Collection-level .HxA File: Describes attribute definition files, which define the attributes and values for your Help collection.

Related Sections

Help Integration Reference: Contains links to general reference topics that pertain to Help integration.