Connecting Context-Sensitive Help

This section provides procedures for connecting context-sensitive help to components that you have created.

You can connect context-sensitive help to the following components:

• Editors and designers

• Tool windows

• Project hierarchies and hierarchy items

• Modal and modeless dialog boxes

• Language services

• Selections in a designer

In This Section

• How to: Create a Context Bag or Subcontext Bag
  Provides step-by-step instructions for creating a context or subcontext bag.

• How to: Provide Context for a Tool Window
  Provides step-by-step instructions for managing context for a tool window and recommends keywords and attributes for tool windows.

• Providing Context for Hierarchies and Hierarchy Items
  Provides step-by-step instructions for providing context for a hierarchy or hierarchy item and recommends keywords and attributes for hierarchies and hierarchy items.

• How to: Provide Context for Modal and Modeless Dialog Boxes
  Provides step-by-step instructions for providing F1 Help for modal or modeless dialog boxes.

• F1 Keywords Overview
  Provides a sample of the form that should be used for F1 keywords.

Related Sections

• Context-Sensitive Help Overview
  Defines context-sensitive Help and explains how Help authors and developers collaborate to create context-sensitive Help.

• Dynamic Help Window Implementation
  Provides detailed information about Dynamic Help.

• Help Integration
  Provides information about integrating and connecting context-sensitive Help.