Each driver help project is associated with a single driver project contained within the same Visual Studio solution. The driver project associated with the help project is shown in the Driver field on this page.
Building the driver help project produces any combination of three different Microsoft help formats, which are explained below. The generated driver help content is automatically deployed by the driver installer project (if any) associated with the same driver.
Help 1.x (chm)
This setting controls whether or not a self-contained .chm file will be generated. When enabled, the associated driver installer (if any) will deploy this file to the end-user machine.
To preview the generated help content from within Visual Studio, right click on the help project node in the Solution Explorer and select View Help 1.x (.chm).
Help Viewer
This setting controls whether or not driver help content will be generated for the Microsoft Help Viewer , which is used by Visual Studio. When enabled, the associated driver installer (if any) will integrate the driver help content into the Microsoft Help Viewer on the end-user’s machine.
Register content with Help Viewer on build
This setting controls whether or not the driver help content will be automatically registered with the Microsoft Help Viewer on your machine whenever the driver help project is built. This setting has no effect on the end-user’s machine.
To preview the generated help content from within Visual Studio, right click on the help project node in the Solution Explorer and selecting View in Help Viewer.
Sign content with a code-signing certificate
Enables signing of the help content to be integrated with the Microsoft Help Viewer. Signed help content can be silently installed without the Microsoft Help Viewer without displaying a security warning to the end-user. Refer here for more information on signing Microsoft Help Viewer content.
Certificate thumbprint
The certificate thumbprint of the code-signing certificate to use for signing the help content.
Use the Browse button to bring up a dialog that can be used to conveniently select the thumbprint from certificates installed on the local machine.
