The SCC framework provides with a number of “out of the box” add-ins. These add-ins provide pre-built functionality that can be customized as necessary or utilized as-is. The following describes some of these add-ins and their capabilities.

The Help Add-In provides your applications with the capability of hosting standard HTML help directly within your application. When this add-in has been loaded, users have access to the Windows-standard “Help Contents”, “Help Search”, and “Help Index” dock windows and each additional add-in can specify help content (via *.chm files) that are loaded and presented to the user through these windows. When a user views help content it is displayed within a browser view directly within the SCC container so users can switch back and forth between help topics and their other functionality. Besides providing the standard Windows help file integration, the Help Add-In also provides a “Dynamic Help” view very similar to that provided by Visual Studio.NET. This capability provides developers with the option of displaying help topics to the end-user specific to their current location within the application. Topics can be presented based on which control has focus, which view is being displayed, or which add-in is active. This feature provides a very nice end-user experience for users learning to use an application for the first time.

The Diagnostics Add-In provides a set of tools specific to software developers that help them diagnose problems and gain visibility into the SCC container while it is running. These features are intended to be utilized during the development process and are not intended to be shipped with the software.