Version 4.45

The default templates for Help Builder have a few adjustments to properly deal with static class members. You need to either update Icons and Templates (new from the Options menu) or you have to copy static.gif into the bmp directory and Header_Template.wcs into the Templates directory. The wwHelp.css style sheet also has a number of small adjustments for better display.

Visual Studio 2008 support has been added and requires that you manually enable this feature on the Options | Administration page.

Version 4.40

The default templates for Help Builder have been updated to support Header_Template.wcs and Footer_Template.wcs logic using nested templates. To take advantage of this feature you'll need to update your project templates to use this same functionality.

To do this you can copy the stock Help Builder project templates into your project's templates directory. Alternately you can review the way the new templates work and adjust your own customized templates as you see fit.

Note: This change is optional, but recommended for your projects.

Version 4.25

Version 4.25 introduced a new set of runtimes for Help Builder so if you have a version prior to 4.25 and are upgrading to a newer version it's highly recommended you do a full uninstall and reinstall of Help Builder. You can download Help Builder from:

http://www.west-wind.com/wwHelp/download.asp

This update fixes a number of runtime issues including a fairly annoying editbox redraw/scroll bug and a few interop issues with the HTML Editing control.

Version 4.05

Version 4.05 provides a number of major enhancements to the .NET import features. Several of these changes have affected the default MSDN templates used. In order to take full advantage of these new features you will need to update your templates.

There are two ways to do this:

• Wholesale Replacement
  If you are using the default Help Builder templates and haven't modified them, you can simply copy the new templates into your project directory. Copy the templates from the <Help Builder Install>\Templates directory, into your project's \Templates directory. You should also copy the images from \BMP directory (*.gif) into your project directory.

• Selective Replacement
  The changes in the templates primarily affect Class related templates although all templates have seen changes.
  

Changes required:

Updated wwHelp.css
To get the new formatting features you will need to update wwhelp.css. You can merge the new wwhelp.css file with any changes you might have made. The new CSS file uses relative percentages so making global changes is now much easier.

Add new WCS templates and BMP gif images
Several new topic types have been introduced in this version. CLASSCONSTRUCTOR, DATAVIEW and DATAFUNCTION have been added to provide new topic types used for imports of classes and databases. You can copy the WCS files out of the Help Builder Install TEMPLATES directory into your project's TEMPLATES directory. Also copy BMP the three images (classconstructor.gif, classconstructor_open.gif, dataview.gif, dataview_open.gif etc.) to your project's BMP directory.

Note: if you don't update the templates and images everything still works, but you will get default images and templates which won't quite look right.

If you haven't made any changes to templates previously consider simply replacing your project's templates with the new ones. Otherwise we still recommend you update your templates at least for the CLASS and DATA templates as these rely on new features that have been added.

New wwhelp.js file
A new wwHelp.js file is used for the MSDN template to include some script code.