How to implement a in-program-documentation in c# WinForms? [closed]

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For a student project we want to implement a help / documentation form.

In this form we want to display text and images that should describe / help with the application.

The information could be represented in some kind of FAQ with questions and answers. These questions could the grouped into different categories like: (General information, function X, function y, function z, ...)

Unfortunately I don't know what would be a good way to implement / display this. The following possibilites come into my mind:

• Create a PDF for each category, use a treeview for the category selection and display the PDF for the selected category
• Use a richtext textbox in the design time and set the editable function to false in the runtime. (I do dislike this idea)

I also think that updating the documentation will also be a issue. I guess I'd prefer to use an external program to write the documentation and to just include it into the program.

Has anyone some advice on this issue? 开发者_JAVA技巧(C# 4.0, Winforms)

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My suggestion is to use embedded HTML Help files. These use standard HTML for presentation, and can be embedded in your application. Check out HTML Help for Winforms on MSDN.