Microsoft Help Viewer
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The .mshc file might come alongside a pregenerated search index with the extension ".mshi"<ref>http://kb.helpwaregroup.com/ms-help-viewer/hvinfo#TOC-.MSHI-Microsoft-Help-Index---Index-fragment</ref>; or also an [[HTML]] "Product Manifest file", with the extension ".msha"<ref>http://kb.helpwaregroup.com/ms-help-viewer/hvinfo#TOC-.MSHA---Product-Manifest-file</ref>, which specifies the organization of multiple .mshc files<ref>http://kb.helpwaregroup.com/ms-help-viewer/hvinfo#TOC-Packages-Books-Catalogs</ref>. It might also be packed into a [[CAB]] file. | The .mshc file might come alongside a pregenerated search index with the extension ".mshi"<ref>http://kb.helpwaregroup.com/ms-help-viewer/hvinfo#TOC-.MSHI-Microsoft-Help-Index---Index-fragment</ref>; or also an [[HTML]] "Product Manifest file", with the extension ".msha"<ref>http://kb.helpwaregroup.com/ms-help-viewer/hvinfo#TOC-.MSHA---Product-Manifest-file</ref>, which specifies the organization of multiple .mshc files<ref>http://kb.helpwaregroup.com/ms-help-viewer/hvinfo#TOC-Packages-Books-Catalogs</ref>. It might also be packed into a [[CAB]] file. | ||
| − | Like [[Microsoft Help 2]], most uses of Microsoft Help Viewer mentioned online seem to extend to documentation of software development tools.<ref>https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/help-viewer/overview?view=vs-2019</ref> | + | Like [[Microsoft Help 2]], which it succeeded, most uses of Microsoft Help Viewer mentioned online seem to extend to documentation of software development tools.<ref>https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/help-viewer/overview?view=vs-2019</ref> |
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Latest revision as of 10:48, 2 December 2020
Microsoft Help Viewer, also known as[2] Microsoft Help 3, is a help format developed by Microsoft. It is much simplified compared to previous formats, with no project format or compiliation step; it is simply a ZIP file, renamed with the extension ".mshc" ("Microsoft Help Container"[3]), of the relevant resources, the main help pages being in XHTML[4]. There were two versions, "HV1" (2010[1]) and "HV2" (2012[1]), which are "basically the same[;] HV2 has a few more meta statements but these wont [sic] break backward compatibility."[5] The major difference between the versions was in the main implementation (and/or API) of the software that read them.[5][6]
The .mshc file might come alongside a pregenerated search index with the extension ".mshi"[7]; or also an HTML "Product Manifest file", with the extension ".msha"[8], which specifies the organization of multiple .mshc files[9]. It might also be packed into a CAB file.
Like Microsoft Help 2, which it succeeded, most uses of Microsoft Help Viewer mentioned online seem to extend to documentation of software development tools.[10]
[edit] Links
- MSHelpWiki: Help Viewer
- Helpware knowledgebase: MS Help Viewer
- Page on the Microsoft website
- Wikipedia:Microsoft Help Viewer
[edit] See Also
[edit] References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Microsoft_Help_Viewer&oldid=952518472#History
- ↑ http://kb.helpwaregroup.com/ms-help-viewer/hvinfo → Introduction, here called "MS Help 3"
- ↑ http://kb.helpwaregroup.com/ms-help-viewer/hvinfo#TOC-.MSHC-Microsoft-Help-Container---Help-file
- ↑ http://hv2.helpmvp.com/doc/file-format
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 http://kb.helpwaregroup.com/ms-help-viewer/hv2info
- ↑ http://mshelpwiki.helpmvp.com/mshelp/help-viewer
- ↑ http://kb.helpwaregroup.com/ms-help-viewer/hvinfo#TOC-.MSHI-Microsoft-Help-Index---Index-fragment
- ↑ http://kb.helpwaregroup.com/ms-help-viewer/hvinfo#TOC-.MSHA---Product-Manifest-file
- ↑ http://kb.helpwaregroup.com/ms-help-viewer/hvinfo#TOC-Packages-Books-Catalogs
- ↑ https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/help-viewer/overview?view=vs-2019
