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Providing Context-Sensitive Help

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The new home for Visual Studio documentation is Visual Studio 2017 Documentation on docs.microsoft.com.

For the latest documentation on Visual Studio 2017, see Providing Context-Sensitive Help on docs.microsoft.com. When you use the Custom Wizard to create a wizard, it inserts a Help button on your wizard.

Each .htm file in your project includes the following code to provide support for the Help button for your wizard.

<BUTTON CLASS="BUTTONS" ID="HelpBtn" ACCESSKEY="H"  
 onClick="window.external.OnHelp('vc.appwiz.custom.overview');">

The OnHelp specifies the keyword of the HTML Help file associated with that page of your wizard. To provide your own help for this wizard page, you must replace the string 'vc.appwiz.custom.overview' with the keyword that identifies the HTML Help topic for the page.

Note This .htm file cannot be integrated into the compiled MSDN Help.

See Also

Files Created for Your Wizard
Custom Wizard
Creating a Custom Wizard
Designing a Wizard