IHelp.ShowHelp(String, UInt32, UInt32) Method

Reference

Definition

Namespace:: Microsoft.VisualStudio.Shell.Interop

Assembly:: Microsoft.VisualStudio.Shell.Interop.dll

Assembly:: Microsoft.VisualStudio.Interop.dll

Package:: Microsoft.VisualStudio.Interop v17.11.40262

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Displays a Help topic.

public:
 int ShowHelp(System::String ^ szHelp, System::UInt32 fuCommand, System::UInt32 dwHelpContext);

public:
 int ShowHelp(Platform::String ^ szHelp, unsigned int fuCommand, unsigned int dwHelpContext);

int ShowHelp(std::wstring const & szHelp, unsigned int fuCommand, unsigned int dwHelpContext);

public int ShowHelp (string szHelp, uint fuCommand, uint dwHelpContext);

abstract member ShowHelp : string * uint32 * uint32 -> int

Public Function ShowHelp (szHelp As String, fuCommand As UInteger, dwHelpContext As UInteger) As Integer

Parameters

szHelp: String

[in] String containing the name and path of the Help file.

fuCommand: UInt32

[in] The context ID of the topic to display.

dwHelpContext: UInt32

[in] Bit flags indicating how to display the topic. For more information, see the Help constants, such as HELP_CONTEXTPOPUP, in the winuser.h file.

Returns

Int32

If the method succeeds, it returns S_OK. If it fails, it returns an error code.

Remarks

COM Signature

From objtext.idl:

HRESULT IHelp::ShowHelp(  
   [in] LPOLESTR szHelp,   
   [in] UINT fuCommand,   
   [in] DWORD dwHelpContext  
);

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