HTML Help Builder

West Wind Technologies

There are numerous help file authoring tools available for developers to create a help system for applications. The reasons we like HTML Help Builder are the simplicity of the user interface, the high level of productivity, the programmable COM interface, and the ease of manipulating the storage of the help content (DBF file format). Not only can you create enduser documentation, but you can ‚“generate ‚½ technical documentation for the development staff. HTML Help Builder can read a VCX and generate the outline for documentation of your framework or custom libraries. It can read a VFP database and tables as well as SQL Server database to document the structures for customer ad hoc reporting. It even documents a Web Service WSDL and .NET assemblies. This documentation might be useful to other developers supporting a release. More information is available at www.west-wind.com . The evaluation version of this tool can be downloaded from this site and the full version is US$299.