FYI VS 2010 RC release is now available via MSDN subscriber downloads, and publicly around the 10th of Feb. ...
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Robert Chandler
helpwarenet
Feb 10, 2010 11:38 pm
... Hi Dana Try switching over to Local Help (Offline mode). When you are in VS Online mode they now close Agent and its very difficult to reopen it -- The...
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andrewscea
Feb 11, 2010 12:44 am
Thanks for the notice, Rob. I've downloaded and installed VS2010RC. I'm happy to report that my TOC plug-in to MS content now works (it did not in Beta2)....
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Rob Chandler
helpwarenet
Feb 11, 2010 8:51 am
Hi Andrew Paul could comment better on the Order. I suspect Microsoft reserve themselves order position 0 .. for the root. Fair enough. I'd expect MS content...
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Rob Chandler
helpwarenet
Feb 11, 2010 9:27 am
Good Blog post by Kimberly Wolk for RC Help http://blogs.msdn.com/kwolk/default.aspx Kimberly is the Product Unit Manager for the Library Experience team. Rob...
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Robert Chandler
helpwarenet
Feb 11, 2010 12:12 pm
FYI In the MSDN forums Charles Christian just posted info on how to override the default viewer. I've posted details here ...
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Robert Chandler
helpwarenet
Feb 11, 2010 2:09 pm
FYI In the RC Release you can now use the /silent switch with the /uninstall switch (no signing required). I'm greatly relieved. This was my #1 concern as a VS...
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Paul O'Rear
paul_orear
Feb 11, 2010 3:45 pm
Just to be really clear - signing is required for silent *install*, but once content is installed there is no signing validation and so /silent + /uninstall...
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Paul O'Rear
paul_orear
Feb 11, 2010 3:47 pm
Hi Andrew, please take note: Microsoft.Help.SelfBranded - not 'ing'. CSS and JS should work fine if you have the right attribute defined. Please feel free to...
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andrewscea
Feb 12, 2010 12:49 am
Thanks, Paul The typo was in my email, not my code. :- > But I was trying to mimic the MS stylesheet container (Help3Branding-IE6.mshc;/branding.css) which was...
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Scott Stark
slugger4152003
Feb 12, 2010 3:23 am
FYI this page http://helpware.net/mshelp3/intro.htm#tags says "ing" not "ed". Don't know who owns that page but it's a great reference. Scott Stark From: ...
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Rob Chandler
helpwarenet
Feb 12, 2010 5:01 am
Many thanks Scott. As an Engineer I'm a poor proof reader. I need to review this page again soon now that things are firming up. Rob At 12:02 PM 12/02/2010,...
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Rob Chandler
helpwarenet
Feb 12, 2010 6:24 am
Oh I see. Yes the very early documentation I got said "SelfBranding" but it now should be "SelfBranded". Thanks Scott I thought I had updated that. I've just...
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Robert Chandler
helpwarenet
Feb 12, 2010 12:30 pm
FYI Index nav fix: With the VS RC build the format of returned index data has changed slightly. Build 17 could only grab a single page of index data. Build 18...
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Paul O'Rear
paul_orear
Feb 12, 2010 6:49 pm
Great news - I'm glad to hear that! - P. http://blogs.msdn.com/TheHelpGuy From: MSHelpViewer@yahoogroups.com [mailto:MSHelpViewer@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of...
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Scott Stark
slugger4152003
Feb 13, 2010 12:20 am
Hi, I'm new to this discussion and the tool so please forgive the naive question. In reviewing some of the required and suggested elements in this document...
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miker@...
miker@ymail.com
Feb 14, 2010 5:42 pm
Hi Rob, great work with the help viewer, it's really a great replacement for the web based help viewer. However, I have an issue with x64 machines. Your help...
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Paul O'Rear
paul_orear
Feb 15, 2010 5:15 am
This is probably an issue of where Rob may be looking for some reg entries - I'll work with him this week while he's in town to get this worked out. - P. ...
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Paul O'Rear
paul_orear
Feb 15, 2010 5:25 am
The new help viewer does not support having a topic showing up in more than one location in the TOC. That's something we could consider in a future release,...
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Peter Macej
peter_macej
Feb 15, 2010 6:04 pm
Hello, According to: http://www.helpware.net/mshelp3/intro.htm#Links some methods in ms-xhelp protocol allow to return JSON format, e.g. keywords. I'm using MS...
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Robert Chandler
helpwarenet
Feb 15, 2010 6:17 pm
Hi Peter Thoughts... I think I got JSON for Index Keyword info prior to RC but now it defaults to XML. I don't think anything is returning JSON at the moment...
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Peter Macej - Helixoft
peter_macej
Feb 15, 2010 6:40 pm
... The page is not running under Help3. It is HTML topic in independent CHM file containing links to MSDN. If existence of local MSDN (in any format) is...
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Paul O'Rear
paul_orear
Feb 15, 2010 10:42 pm
Hi Peter, unfortunately we are not able to provide JSON support in time for VS RTM. We had initially planned to support it, but it is now out of scope for this...
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Rob Chandler
helpwarenet
Feb 16, 2010 6:56 am
Thanks Paul I've removed the JSON reference from http://www.helpware.net/mshelp3/intro.htm#Links At 09:42 AM 16/02/2010, Paul O'Rear wrote: Hi Peter,...
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miker@...
miker@ymail.com
Feb 16, 2010 7:10 am
Hi Paul, I'm not sure if this is related to the index format but Rob reported a significant slowdown in retrieving the index between Beta 2 and RC, from...
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Paul O'Rear
paul_orear
Feb 16, 2010 7:45 am
Hi Mike - it certainly will be addressed in the RTM release. The performance Rob was getting before was unfortunately without a lot of features fully fleshed...
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Rob Chandler
helpwarenet
Feb 16, 2010 7:58 am
Paul seems to have retired for the night... So let me take a stab at this Mike. Apparently 2 level index items "xxx, yyyy" were not working. You had to define...
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miker@...
miker@ymail.com
Feb 16, 2010 2:52 pm
Hi Rob, thanks for the reply that's really great news, and also thanks to Paul for his reply too. I'm looking forward to trying the RTM bits. I'm also in...
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Rob Chandler
helpwarenet
Feb 16, 2010 7:38 pm
Should be a great session. Ryan mentioned that he was talking to various groups... should be some lively and passionate discussion :-) Ryan wasn't looking well...
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rcavicchio@...
rcavicch
Feb 16, 2010 9:19 pm
The OOTB Help experience needs to be improved a bit. I installed the RC build on a fresh system, and chose not to do anything with documentation immediately,...
