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Subject:    Re: [Wireshark-dev] Windows HTML Help
From:       Gerald Combs <gerald () wireshark ! org>
Date:       2021-06-02 18:42:47
Message-ID: 0119f110-a9ba-fb2c-9853-1e774aa2cdc0 () wireshark ! org
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On 6/1/21 8:08 PM, Guy Harris wrote:
> On Jun 1, 2021, at 4:14 PM, Gerald Combs <gerald@wireshark.org> wrote:
> 
> > I just discovered that the HTML Help Workshop download link at
> > 
> > https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/windows/desktop/htmlhelp/microsoft-html-help-downloads
> >  
> > no longer works, and the Chocolatey package now downloads from archive.org:
> > 
> > https://community.chocolatey.org/packages/html-help-workshop#files
> 
> Have Microsoft said anything about deprecating HTML Help in favor either of 1) some \
> new help mechanism or 2) just use an HTML display tool that you hand the URL for \
> your product's documentation?

I can't find any official deprecation notice, but it looks like they stopped updating \
HTML Help Workshop in 2009 and have released two succeeding help systems: Microsoft \
Help 2[1] and Microsoft Help Viewer[2][3]. Both seem to be tied closely to Visual \
Studio, and I'm not sure how easy it is to generate content for each format (e.g. \
Help Viewer topic markup) using our current toolchain.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Help_2
[2]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Help_Viewer
[3]https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/extensibility/internals/microsoft-help-viewer-sdk?view=vs-2019
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