RE: Who Has Good Help?

 
Take a look at MSDN Magazine February 2009 issue -- Convention over
Configuration in "Patterns and Practices" by Jeremy Miller -- interesting
use of attributes to handle some of the display typing, validation, and
length issues -- he even ties it in with Nhibernate, and some interesting
fluent interfaces for this kind of stuff.

Walt 

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There's also the authoring part and the "automatic stick this into the UI as
balloons or some other UI widget part". I;m web-searching around for a
system that does it all. It'd be cool if SandCastle wasn't put on hold way
back when, because that allowed decoration of controls to at least make a
decent help file.
 
Thanks.
 

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Resource Files?  Fits into the Internationalization schemes.
 
Walt 
 

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I have an ASP.NET using a heavy dose of Telerik's controls and LINQ-to-SQL.
Now context-sensitive help is required, and it needs to be file-driven or
db-driven so I won't author the content or have to recompile when a content
author makes changes. Oh, if it works with WPF or WinForms, so much the
better?
 
Any recommendations?