Content Authoring

Conceptual Topic Authoring

Create free format topics, e.g. tutorials, procedures, how-to guides etc. You decide the Topic Structure and organize your Topics in the Table of Contents editor.

Automated Reference Documentation

Automate the production of reference documentation for a wide range of technical items including .NET and Silverlight Assemblies, COM Components, Java Projects, Databases, XSD Schemas, Javascript and Web Services.

Reference Documentation Authoring

Author additional content for reference documentation items, including colorized examples and see also links as well as descriptive content, using the Content File Editor. Create rules based content that applies to many items automatically using the AutoDoc File Editor.

Single Sourcing

Create all of your different outputs from a single project by using Build Flags and Build Profiles.

Style Editing

Style Picker, Style Editor and Stylesheet File Editor make it simple for you to leverage the power of CSS styles in your content.

Widgets

A fully customizable library of content functionality that requires no manual scripting and can be configured for different outputs without any change to content. Standard widgets include dynamic images (click to expand thumbnails), drop down sections, colorized example code sections, tab strips, twitter feeds and more.

Content Snippets

Reduce duplication by creating re-usable snippets of content using drag and drop.

PDF Booklets

Generate PDF Booklets.

Import from Word, CHM, Help 2.x, RoboHelp

Leverage your existing legacy content by importing directly from a wide range of other content sources.

Visual Studio Comment Editor

A visual comment editor integrated with Visual Studio® 2010-2019 allows you to author Xml format source comments directly within a preview of the generated page. All content is written back to the source as standard Xml comment format.

Outputs

Compiled help (CHM, Help 2.x, Microsoft Help Viewer)

Full support for all the Microsoft platform compiled help formats including the new Visual Studio® 2010-2019 Microsoft Help Viewer.

Web Help

Web ready plain html output for publishing on a intranet or internet web site, or for viewing from a local directory.

PDF Booklets

Generate PDF Booklets, including a Table of Contents and Index, using existing content you have authored for online help. Links, images and widgets are all automatically converted to be suitable for a printable output.

Publishing

Automatically publish your generated outputs to a web site (Azure, IIS Web Deploy, Ftp and File System Directory Publishing Targets are supported) or directory path (local or network).

Project Tools

Link and Spell Check, Find and Replace

Validate the Hyperlinks and See Also links throughout your project. Find and Replace, including regular expression support.

Image Tools

Screen capture, image editing, thumbnail and markup tools integrated directly with the application.

Glossary Editor

Create a Glossary Page defining commonly used terms and have the definitions appear as hover popups where they are used in your content.

Project Index Editor

Work with a project wide view of the index to get a clear view of which index keywords link to which topics. Note that even without the Project Index Editor you can still define custom index keywords in the Topic Editor.

Localization

Localization

Author and generated output for multiple locales within a single project.

Localization Export and Import

Export content in XLIFF or XML format in order to use the services of a third party translation provider to assist with your localization. Use the Localization Report to identify content that requires localization.

Team and Community

Source Control Integration

Use Team Foundation Server, SourceSafe, SourceGear Vault or Subversion to collaborate with other team members. Fine grained integration allows different individuals to work on different project elements simultaneously.

Community and Discussion Features

Automatically include community and discussion features using Disqus, Facebook, SolidOpinion or Livefyre by simply enabling a single project setting.