Hi Paul,

 

In order to create and view .HxS, or Microsoft Help 2.0, files, you must install Visual Studio.NET and VSHIK (Visual Studio Help Integration Kit). To build Help 2.0, Doc-To-Help also needs to know the locations of the Help 2.0 executable files. These locations can be specified in Doc-To-Help in the Tools | Options dialog box. By default, Doc-To-Help assumes the following locations:

 

C:\Program Files\Microsoft Help 2.0 SDK\HxComp.exe

 

C:\Program Files\Microsoft Help 2.0 SDK\HxReg.exe

 

C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Help\dexplore.exe

 

Please refer to the below mentioned links to install the Microsoft Visual Studio .NET Help Integration Kit:

 

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=3EAEB657-98DD-4959-B946-9719FEC3A3CE&displaylang=en

 

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=ce1b26dc-d6af-42a1-a9a4-88c4eb456d87&displaylang=en

 

 

Hope this helps.

 

 

Regards,

John Adams

<paulcar> wrote in message news:204721@10.0.1.98...

I am getting this error: "Doc-To-Help cannot execute this action because some required file of Microsoft Help 2.0 are not found or not properly installed. Check that their location is correctly specified in the Options dialog." Please help. Paul 

 

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Paul,

Just to add that you may be able to avoid having to install Visual Studio .NET in order to create and view Help 2.0 files. There is a hack you can use to install the VSHIK without first installing Visual Studio .NET, which is otherwise a prerequisite for running the VSHIK setup program. In addition, the Help 2.0 viewer components are now shipped with a number of applications other than Visual Studio .NET, including Office 2007 and the .NET Framework SDK. The latter is a free download from the Microsoft site, and a fraction of the size of a full Visual Studio .NET installation.

See this page for details:

http://helpware.net/mshelp2/h20.htm

I guess you know that Help 2.0 is best avoided unless you want to integrate your content into an existing Help 2.0 collection, such as Microsoft's Visual Studio .NET help or MSDN library, or Borland's C# Builder documentation. Files in Help 2.0 format aren't designed to be viewed as standalone files.

Pete