Project Properties Reference > Visual Studio Help

This section allows you to configure the options for compiling Visual Studio Help, which is also known as MS Help 2.0.

Do not use Visual Studio Help for normal applications!

Please note that this is a special help format that is only used for documenting third-party programming components designed for integration into Visual Studio .NET. It is not suitable for any other purpose and cannot be used for normal help projects for application programs!

Since Visual Studio Help is an HTML-based format it shares several groups of settings with the other HTML-based output formats supported by Help & Manual.

Shared settings:

The options in the following two sections are shared by all HTML-based output formats (HTML Help, Browser-Based Help, eBooks and Visual Studio Help (MS Help 2.0).

Topic Pages:

These are the HTML templates that control the layout of your topic pages. There is only one version of each template for all HTML-based output formats. You cannot create separate templates for each output format.

HTML Export Options:

These are the general settings for all HTML output formats, including image conversion and export options and the options for the CSS style sheet used to export the style formatting information from your project. Here too, there is only one CSS style sheet and one set of HTML Export Options for all four output formats. You cannot enter different settings for each output format.

•	Note that not all the settings in this section are relevant for all HTML-based output formats. See HTML Export Options for details.