AP Help Tech Info

Last Update: 5 Feb 2007

Hot Spots

NISD -- Natural Interactive Services Division at Microsoft Corp. Speech technologies, Natural Language Query etc. NISD Div Home Page.
See also Windows Vista AP Help page.

History

Dec 2005 6.0.5270.9	Vista Beta CTP Build 5270. First look at AP Help v6.0.5270.
Nov 2006	AP v1.0 -- Assistance Platform 1.0 ships with Windows Vista RTM (Jan 30th 2007 is official launch). AP 1.0 is for Operating System and OEM Help only.
Late 2007 ?	AP v2.0 -- Revised: Plans have changed. MS no longer have immediate plans to release a public version of AP Help.

Core Files

ApDs.dll	6.0.5270.9	1.68 MB	c:\Windows\System32\ Microsoft Help Data Services Module. H2 Note: Called Hxds.dll in MS Help 2.
Apircl.dll	6.0.5270.9	287 KB	c:\Windows\System32\ Microsoft InfoTech IR Local DLL Note: Itircl.dll in HH 1.x, Itircl52.dll in MS Help 2
ApSS.dll	6.0.5270.9	303 KB	c:\Windows\System32\ Microsoft InfoTech Storage System Library Note: Itss.dll in HH 1.x, Msitss.dll in MS Help 2
HelpPaneProxy.dll	6.0.5270.9	136 KB	c:\Windows\System32\
Helppane.exe	6.0.5270.9	529 KB	c:\Windows\
HelpPane.adm			c:\Windows\inf\ Text file containing some settings.

Note: You can run TLibImp.exe over ApDs.dll, HelpPaneProxy.dll, Helppane.exe

Multilingual User Interface Files - c:\Windows\System32\en-US\

apds.dll.mui	6.0.5270.9	c:\Windows\System32\en-US\
apircl.dll.mui	6.0.5270.9	c:\Windows\System32\en-US\
apss.dll.mui	6.0.5270.9	c:\Windows\System32\en-US\
helppane.exe.mui	6.0.5270.9	c:\Windows\en-US\

Help Collections - c:\Windows\Help\

MS Assistance collection files are in the c:\Windows\Help\ folder along with the other HH 1.x files.

c:\Windows\Help\Windows\en-US
c:\Windows\Help\Help\en-US

Help extensions are similar to those in MS Help 2.x.

	.H1C	Main collection file contains references to all other collection-level files. Similar to MS Help 2.x .HxC file
	.H1T	Table of Contents - This defines the master TOC and which Titles to include. Similar to MS Help 2.x .HxT file
	.H1K	Keyword Index files Similar to MS Help 2.x .HxK file
	.H1S	Binary file (all others above are XML files). Contains the help content. Similar to MS Help 2.x .HxS file

Namespace Information

In Vista AP Namespace info stored...

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Assistance\Client\1.0\Namespaces

Probably just MS namespace Install Info ??
c:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Assistance\Client\1.0\en-US

This contains .Lck, .HID, .H1W, .H1Q. .H1H files
(similar to MS Help 2.x folder: C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Microsoft Help\
or C:\Documents and Settings\All Users.WINDOWS\Application Data\Microsoft Help\ )

Name: FAR Report - Relative Path
Base Path: C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Assistance\Client\1.0\en-US

Help_en-US_CValidator.H1D
Help_MKWD_AssetId.H1W
Help_MKWD_BestBet.H1W
Help_MKWD_LinkTerm.H1W
Help_MKWD_SubjectTerm.H1W
Help_MTOC_help.H1H
Help_MValidator.H1D
Help_MValidator.Lck
Help{9DAA54E8-CD95-4107-8E7F-BA3F24732D95}.H1Q

Total Files: 9
Total Size: 1.66 MB