Ideas for implementing a standard windows form help window?

Question

Hello

I'm trying to implement a standard windows Help window; the ones you see so often in windows application. The ones that have a treeview in the left handside and on the right side theres space to display the help contents.

My question is what control should i use on the right side to show the help contents? And what should my help contents be written in?

should i do:

a richtextbox and just type my contents in?
a web browser control, help files in html format and use the web browser control to load them in?
help files in word doc files and load them in..
help files in rft files and load into a richtextbox control?
any other controls i can use and what ideal help file format should i use to implement my form?

any ideas?

thanks

novacara · Answer

You can certainly create your own help file control but if your application is going to be primarily distributed to Windows users you can also download a program from Microsoft called HTML Help Workshop which will allow you to create your own chm files (which are the help files you are referring to). Then you can link to these files in your program and that will be exactly what you are describing. However this solution would not work well with non-Windows users.