Can anybody give an example of WIX script to register custom help in visual studio help? I,ve searched for some tutorial, but the only thing that I found was VS schema reference. Everything I tried to do did not work. I use WIX 3.0.
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Can anybody give an example of WIX script to register custom help in visual studio help? I,ve searched for some tutorial, but the only thing that I found was VS schema reference. Everything I tried to do did not work. I use WIX 3.0.
I hope this answer is not too late.
You’re going to need:
First thing you want to do is create the Wix code that will hold your help collection.
Next, you want to make a copy of the MSHelp2_RegTables_RTL_—_—.msm merge module. (It can be found at C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 SDK\HelpIntegrationWizard\MSHelp2) and open it with Orca.
Here you want to edit the HelpNamespace table in the merge module. You’re going to want to fill a record with the following information:
Now you want to edit the HelpFile table:
Next you want to edit the HelpFileToNamespace table:
Finally, you want to edit the HelpPlugin table:
You can now save your copy of the MSHelp2_RegTables_RTL_—_—.msm merge module. It’s probably a good idea to rename it to something like MyHelpCollection.msm.
Now you just have to include this merge module in your wix project, in addition to the VSIP merge module for the version of VS you’re targeting:
Adapted from MSDN Walkthrough