winhlp32.exe is a viewer for WinHelp (.hlp) files, which format was supplanted by MS HTML Help (.chm) years ago. We're talking about Microsoft Help Container (.mshc).
On Wed, Nov 27, 2013 at 4:48 PM, grant at hedgewizard.net <grant at hedgewizard.net> wrote: > Not only that, but MS stopped support for the 32-bit help viewer. ( > WinHlp32.exe) > >> On November 27, 2013 at 9:41 AM Robert Lauriston <robert at lauriston.com> >> wrote: >> There's no free runtime help viewer? That would explain why no one >> uses that format. >> >> On Wed, Nov 27, 2013 at 7:54 AM, Fei Min Lorente >> <FeiMin.Lorente at onsemi.com> wrote: >> > We?ve been in touch with Rob Chandler (creator of mshcMigrate) and he?s >> > helped us realize that I might have been describing our challenge >> > incorrectly. The developers are using VS 2010 to create an application >> > that >> > will run independently from Visual Studio, using .NET 4.0 as the >> > framework. >> > From everything we?ve read, it seems that MS Help Viewer only works if >> > Visual Studio is installed; is that right? >
