PackageThis - Create Custom Offline Collections from the MSDN Library
"Package This is a GUI tool written in C# for creating help files (.chm and .hxs) from the content obtained from the MSDN Library via the MSDN Content Service. You select the content you want from the table of contents, build a help file, and use the content offline. You are making personalized ebooks of MSDN content. Both help file formats also give full text search and keyword search.
The code illustrates how to use the MSDN Content Service to retrieve documentation from MSDN. It also shows how to build .hxs files and .chm files programmatically.
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What stood out for me on this project was its consumption of the Content Service, the public SOAP API to TechNet/MSDN.
The code downloads, complies and runs with no problems. Provided is a simple tree based interface where you select the articles you want included in your custom offline library/package. Then it's a quick Export to HxS or CHM and you've got your package...
(via MSDN and TechNet Labs and Innovations - You Can Take it With You - New CodePlex Project for MSDN2 Content Packaging)
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