Microsoft InfoViewer program
Microsoft InfoViewer Program Microsoft InfoViewer was a documentation viewer and help system used by Microsoft in the mid-to-late 1990s, especially around the Visual Studio 97 and Visual C++ 5.0 era. It was designed to browse large developer documentation sets such as the MSDN Library, Visual C++ reference manuals, Platform SDK materials, and bundled sample code collections. InfoViewer can be understood as an intermediate help technology between earlier Windows Help systems and later HTML Help. Before InfoViewer, Microsoft commonly used WinHelp files, usually with the .hlp extension, and multimedia-oriented documentation systems such as Microsoft Multimedia Viewer. After InfoViewer, Microsoft moved toward HTML Help, whose compiled help files used the .chm extension. The InfoViewer system used proprietary container files, most notably .ivt , often interpreted as InfoViewer Title files. These files could contain HTML-like documents, images, stylesheets, sample source code, pr...