Context sensitive help (CSH) is help set up to open at a topic relevant to the field or screen that the user is viewing. To allow your projects to have context sensitivity, you need to create context sensitive help calls in your application and you need to prepare your project for these help calls.

Adobe provides several default APIs but these APIs do not support all the methods of context sensitivity that WebHelp supports. The above download combines a custom C# API and a test application for the context sensitivity of RoboHelp WebHelp output. You can use the custom C# API directly in your application or use it as an example for creating your own API. The CSH tester (RoboHelper.exe) is an example implementation of the custom C# API. You can use the CSH tester to test the context sensitivity of your projects.

Many thanks to my colleague Valerie Pogaday who was willing to create a C# API and a CSH tester application.

If you have any questions after reading the readme or the API documentation, don't hesitate to contact me.

Want to know more? Also read my article Context Sensitivity in WebHelp for an exhaustive overview over context sensitivity in WebHelp.

System requirements

• .NET Framework 2.0 or higher. If you only have .NET Framework 4.0 you will need .NET Framework 3.5.