Integrating help in a WPF application

Question

what are the possible approaches to integrate local (so not on-line) help in a WPF application? It would be more like a manual, but I would like to integrate it in some way.

Answer 1

I had a similar need except I only needed to wire up the F1 key to our existing Help code.

I ended up pulling a mix of about 5 different StackOverflow pages so I'm putting it here in case someone else has a similar need.

In my MainWindow.xaml I added a KeyBinding in inputBindings to wire the F1 to an ICommand:

    (other bindings here...)
    

Then in my MainWindowViewModel.cs I added this ICommand which calls my existing Help code.

    private ICommand _showHelpCommand;
    public ICommand ShowHelpCommand
    {
        get
        {
            return _showHelpCommand ??
                   (_showHelpCommand = new RelayCommand(p => DisplayCREHelp(), p => true));
        }
    }

I hope this helps anyone with a similar issue and I didn't think it was worth it's own thread. Cheers.