Help Topics: Context-Sensitive Help for Your Programs

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This group of articles describes support provided by the Microsoft Foundation Class Library (MFC) for context-sensitive Windows Help for your applications.

Applications written for Windows usually provide context-sensitive Help, allowing the user to get help on a particular window, dialog box, command, or toolbar button. MFC makes it simple to add context-sensitive Help to your application.

The user can access Help in the following ways:

The following articles present an overview of the MFC help subsystem:

The following additional articles explain MFC help support in more detail:

For a detailed example, see Adding Context-Sensitive Help in Tutorials. For additional technical information, see Technical Note 28.