Lots of folks have been wondering about a Guided Help SDK.  One thing that's very important about Guided Help topics is that they're inexpensive to create - we have a fairly rough SDK that makes this easy (even easier once the products involved ship).  But we have concerns about getting the security story right and we think that ISVs/MVPs/IT folks will want some features in addition to what we had time to put together in the Vista timeframe.  We're working on addressing these concerns, but in the very short term ACW (Guided Help) will be for apps that ship with Windows, Microsoft support and OEMs.

 

But what if the SDK was available?  What would you do with it?  We'd be very interested in hearing about how you think Guided Help could be applied to your business, project, or interests.  What other features would you want than you've already seen?  Feel free to comment or email us directly at acwfeed @microsoft.com.

 

Thanks,

James Finnigan (Guided Help developer)

 

P.S. - Look for Andrew to have more to say about this topic soon...