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Subject:Wash. DC Online SIG--September Meeting From:Melissa Brown <Melissa_Brown/Claritas -at- CLARITAS -dot- COM> Date:Tue, 2 Sep 1997 12:36:47 -0400
Mark your calendars!
DC Online SIG--September Meeting
Topic: Developing and Maintaining Context-Sensitive Help: A Real-World
Look
When: Monday, Sept. 29, 1997
7:00-8:30pm
Where: Meeting Room
Patrick Henry Library
101 Maple Ave. East
Vienna, VA
Details:
Join an experienced Visual Basic programmer and fellow Help authors for a
frank discussion about context-sensitive Help for Windows applications.
Issues to be covered include:
- Elements of context-sensitive Help
- Context-sensitive Help organization
- Map files
- Context-sensitive Help: an application developer's view vs. a Help
author's view
- Effectively communicating with programmers
- Maintaining Help as the application changes
Come learn about context-sensitive Help development, share war stories, and
network with other online information developers!
Directions/More Info: Melissa Brown, (703) 812-2746 or mebrown -at- claritas -dot- com
P.S. If anyone is interested in speaking from the programmer viewpoint,
please contact me! My hope is to have as many programming representatives
as possible...
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