Custom AppWizard Help File Support

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Feature Only in Professional and Enterprise Editions   Creating a Custom AppWizard is supported only in Visual C++ Professional and Enterprise Editions. For more information, see Visual C++ Editions.

The MFC AppWizard gives you the tools you need to create context-sensitive help for the custom steps in your custom AppWizard:

Your custom AppWizard file, which has an extension of .AWX, and its help file must use the same base filename, and both must reside in Microsoft Visual Studio\Common\msdev98\Template. When the custom AppWizard user clicks a custom step’s Help button, MFCAPWZ.DLL invokes WinHelp and passes it the current step’s help ID and the name of your custom AppWizard’s help file.

Note   You cannot integrate your custom AppWizard’s help with the Visual C++ help system. However, if you build a custom AppWizard that uses an existing sequence of AppWizard steps, your custom AppWizard will automatically use the Visual C++ help file that was created for the standard MFC AppWizard steps. Your custom AppWizard will use your own WinHelp help file for the custom steps. The effect is seamless to the user.

See Also   Standard Custom Resource Templates, All AppWizard Projects, Dialog-Based Applications, Dynamic-Link Libraries, MDI and SDI Applications, ActiveX Applications, Help File Support, Database Applications.