Upon completing a Help 2.0 build, you provide a "Click here to open the generated help file" link which opens the documentation using Microsoft Document Explorer.

How can I do the same myself so that our users can use the Document Explorer to view Help 2.0 files outside of Visual Studio, instead of using a CHM file for this purpose?

Thanks,

Alexander 

The Microsoft Visual Studio help viewer is called DExplore.exe Lauch it with a /? command line parameter in order to show a usage summary:

This is the output I see from DExplore v8 (that shipped with Visual Studio 2005):

Available command line options:

/helpcol ms-help://<Namespace>    Use specified help collection.
/filter <filter name>   Use specified filter.
/LCID <locale id>               Use specified language.
/LaunchNamedUrlTopic <named url> Display the topic for the specified named url.
/LaunchFKeywordTopic <keyword>  Display the topic for the specified keyword.
/usehelpsettings <settings token>   Use help settings from the specified application token.

We only use the /helpcol ms-help://yournamespace parameter in Document! X, and these parameters are not documented anywhere as far as I know. /helpcol would be sufficient just for opening the help for viewing.

Thanks for the info, I appreciate it.

Alexander