The article explains how to use reflection to view resource data or how to use verbs to display design time help documents
As always thousand ways to implement something so use the document as a path not as a pattern
Step 1 : Create a HTML/XML/ …. file and Set Build Action to Embedded Resources
Step 2 : Create a windows form with the example code to read the data from assembly
private void LoadData(string ResourcePath)
{
try
{
if (!String.IsNullOrEmpty(ResourcePath))
{
Assembly assembly = Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly();
StreamReader sr = new StreamReader(assembly.GetManifestResourceStream(ResourcePath));
if (sr == null)
MessageBox.Show(“Resource is null for “ + ResourcePath);
string partialContent = sr.ReadToEnd();
DataDetails.Text = partialContent;
GenericHelp.ActiveForm.Activate();
}
else
{
MessageBox.Show(“ResourcePath not assigned for display”);
}
}
catch (Exception ex)
{
MessageBox.Show(ex.Message.ToString());
}
}
Step 3: In VersionControlDesigner in Designers add a new control desginer
public class SomeControlDesigner : ControlDesigner
{
public override System.ComponentModel.Design.DesignerVerbCollection Verbs
{
get
{
DesignerVerbCollection v = new DesignerVerbCollection();
v.Add(new DesignerVerb(“Help link”, new EventHandler(HelpVerbHandler)));
return v;
}
}
private void HelpVerbHandler(object sender, System.EventArgs e)
{
OpenForm();
}
// write process to open web form
private void OpenForm()
{
// Resource Path need to be passed with intialization
GenericHelp gh = new GenericHelp(“Full file name – Case Sensitive”);
gh.ShowDialog();
}
Step 4 : In SomeControl.cs add a attribute –
[Designer(typeof(NameSpace.SomeControlDesigner))]
Step 5 : In Designer mode , view property window you will see a link and Click on the link will open window form
