Link Type style is used to link a type name to the topic describing that type. A type can be a class, an enumeration, an interface, a structure or a delegate.

The link text starts with a special character followed by colon. The special character specifies the kind of the type:

С – Class

D – Delegate

E – Enumeration

I – Interface

S – Structure

For this style, the Doc-To-Help compiler removes the special character and colon. The target topic title is determined by the remainder of the link text with the added type kind name, which is one of the words Class, Delegate, Enumeration, Interface or Structure.

To create a link using this style, prepend the text with one of the special characters (uppercase) and colon, select the text including the special character and format it with the Link Type style using standard Microsoft Word style formatting.

For this style, Doc-To-Help applies all transformations determined by the special characters ‘!’, ‘() and ‘+’, as for the corresponding specialized styles for type links, see Special Characters in Link Text.

The following table demonstrates the usage of the Link Type style:

 

In document	In help file	Links to topic
C:FileInfo	FileInfo	FileInfo Class
I:IResourceReader	IresourceReader	IResourceReader Interface
S:Point	Point	Point Structure
E:TraceMode	TaceMode	TraceMode Enumeration
D:TypeFilter	TypeFilter	TypeFilter Delegate

 

The following table demonstrates using special characters with the Link Type style:

 

In document	In help file	Links to topic
C:FileInfo	FileInfo	FileInfo Class
C:System.IO.FileInfo	FileInfo	System.IO.FileInfo Class
C:!System.IO.FileInfo	System.IO.FileInfo	System.IO.FileInfo Class
C:(System.IO.)FileInfo	System.IO.FileInfo	FileInfo Class