Introduction

Building the best program in the world is useless if no one but the original developer can use it. As applications grow ever more complex, it's incumbent upon their developers to provide help for end users of these applications. Visual Studio .NET provides strong support for two specific types of help: user assistance and accessibility.

User assistance refers to the type of help that you get from the traditional help file: a set of short topics designed to teach you what you need to know to effectively use the capabilities of an application. Windows forms are designed to integrate with HTML Help, Microsoft's current standard for building application help. They also support more immediate help through the use of ToolTips, which are ...

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