What can you do if Visual Studio F1 Help is broken or not working? Behind the scenes, Visual Studio maintains a help context that it passes to the help system when you press F1. The help system then displays the topic that best matches your context. A good first step in debugging F1 problems is […]
So you’ve decided to create some local content and you want to use the Visual Studio branding package to simplify your life. It would be helpful to look at Visual Studio source content so you can learn by example. What’s the easiest way to examine Visual Studio local Help topics in raw XHTML? Let me […]
In my last post, I explained how to add a simple, text-only topic to your local Help Library. I also described how metadata connects content into the help system. Now let’s look at what we can do to make our topic a little more interesting. (Skip ahead to the hands-on tutorial if you’re not interested […]
In this post, I’ll show you how to create some simple content and add it to the Visual Studio local Help Library. The only tools you’ll need are a command prompt, Notepad, Windows Explorer and the Help Library Manager. This exercise takes about 5 minutes and, when you’re done, you can easily remove the content […]
“I just installed SP1 and still see Help Viewer 1.0, not 1.1. Which version do I have?†Open Control Panel\Programs\Programs and Features to verify your version of Help Viewer. After successfully installing Visual Studio 2010 SP1, you will see an entry that looks like this: While it can be accessed directly from the Visual Studio […]
The new local help viewer I’ve been blogging about is now available with Visual Studio 2010 Service Pack 1. MSDN subscribers may download SP1 immediately with general availability on Thursday. Microsoft Help Viewer 1.1 is a dedicated client application that lets you: Navigate the table of contents in a fully expandable tree control Look up topics […]
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