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Collection-Level Files

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By integrating your Help collection into the Visual Studio Combined Collection (VSCC), you make your Help collection a child of the VSCC parent collection. To attach one Help collection to another in this child-parent model, you must provide special collection-level files to enable the parent-child integration.

These collection-level files differ from, and are independent of, similar files that have the same file name extension as those found in your Help projects. For example, although you define a table of contents for a Help project by using a project-level table of contents (.HxT) file, you must also create a collection-level .HxT file to integrate the Help project with the VSCC. The same is true for the other collection-level files.

In This Section

  • Collection-Level .HxC File
    Describes collection definition files, which define references for all your collection-level files.

  • Collection-Level .HxT File
    Describes table of contents files, which define the structure of the table of contents for your Help collection.

  • Collection-Level .HxK File
    Describes index files, which define the index keywords and structure for your Help collection.

  • Collection-Level .HxA File
    Describes attribute definition files, which define the attributes and values for your Help collection.