Hi and welcome to the MSHelp3 discussion group. At the moment there isn't much we can do except wait for the VS 2010 Beta to arrive. Beta 1 (Online help only)...
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Rob Chandler [MVP]
helpwarenet
May 21, 2009 1:21 am
FYI - VS 2010 Beta 1 now available. And there is a new #Help3 team blog, as well as a new @Help3 twitter feed - http://tinyurl.com/oeze6c Rob...
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GWKNOLL
Oct 16, 2009 8:12 pm
Has there been any news from Microsoft that Visual Studio 2010 Beta will allow third parties to add their content into the Help 3.0 system? Thanks, --Geoff...
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Rob Chandler
helpwarenet
Oct 16, 2009 9:12 pm
Hi Geoff The VS 2010 Beta 2 release will definitely contain the offline help experience and contain some functionality that you can experiment with. That's not...
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Rob Chandler
helpwarenet
Oct 19, 2009 4:55 pm
VS 2010 Beta 2 now up on MSDN Subscriber Downloads. The Help Migration Utility is here (download link at bottom of page) http://mhsmigrate.helpmvp.com/ The fun...
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Rob Cavicchio
rcavicch
Oct 20, 2009 2:52 pm
Cool beans. :-) Thanks for the heads-up....
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Robert Chandler
helpwarenet
Oct 20, 2009 4:22 pm
Hi all Things never go as smoothly as you planned them. MS now settled on the name "MS Help Viewer 1.0". So I have renamed my little migrate app to ...
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leakek
Oct 20, 2009 4:57 pm
Hello, don't know if it's related to various name changes, but the link: http://helpware.net/help3/ Doesn't appear to be going anywhere! Regards Ken Leake...
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Robert Chandler
helpwarenet
Oct 20, 2009 5:16 pm
Thanks Ken Should be http://helpware.net/mshelp3/ Off to bed. Obviously tired. Rob...
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Robert Chandler
helpwarenet
Oct 21, 2009 11:55 am
Hi all Created a new page of VS 10 beta 2 Help screen shots and info here * http://mshcMigrate.helpmvp.com/tour/vsbeta2 Also looks like VS Beta 2 Pro is now...
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A W
droo0g
Oct 23, 2009 11:20 pm
Hi all: I am attempting to integrate some local content into VS 2010 via the Help Library Manager. I've converted some existing Help 2 content through Rob's...
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Robert Chandler
helpwarenet
Oct 23, 2009 11:26 pm
Strange Andrew. Can you please paste the error here from the event log so we can see it please. Thanks Rob...
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Robert Chandler
helpwarenet
Oct 24, 2009 12:26 am
Thanks for posting the screen cap. I've past onto Paul O'Rear [MSFT]. The image is in the Files area if anyone else wants to look. ...
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Robert Chandler
helpwarenet
Oct 25, 2009 8:41 am
Uploaded build 18 of mshcMigrate Change notes here: http://mshcMigrate.helpmvp.com/news/mshcmigratebuild18 Not having much luck with the Help Beta 2 build. If...
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Rob Cavicchio
rcavicch
Oct 25, 2009 5:16 pm
Is the format still required to be XHTML 1.1 (as opposed to 1.0)? I don't think 1.1 has a Transitional form, does it?...
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Rob Chandler
helpwarenet
Oct 26, 2009 4:33 am
Hi Rob Right XHTML 1.1 is does not have a transitional form. And is very similar to 1.0 Strict. I think the new help system is mostly concerned with the...
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Robert Chandler
helpwarenet
Oct 27, 2009 1:14 am
I think I've reached a dead end with this beta 2 drop. It's been useful to explore but for me integration does not work on this drop. I've reset the local...
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Tatyana Popova
longrun95_99
Oct 27, 2009 9:25 am
Hi Rob, I don't think the Help viewer is included with the Beta 2 release. When I tried to install it I got an error that the installment package is missing. ...
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Rob Chandler
helpwarenet
Oct 27, 2009 9:33 am
Hi Tatyana It is included. You may have a bad download. I had to download VS ISO a second time. The new download installed correctly. If you have an MSDN...
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Robert Chandler
helpwarenet
Oct 29, 2009 11:32 am
Hi to all those playing on the bleeding edge of help 3. OK so the initial help 3 is a little ruff (It's beta after all). And it's been hard going sorting it...
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Jon Harvey
im_not_your_...
Oct 29, 2009 4:59 pm
Hi Rob. I went to http://mshcmigrate.helpmvp.com/faq/beta2 <http://mshcmigrate.helpmvp.com/faq/beta2>; and downloaded the attachment at the bottom of the page...
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GWKNOLL
Oct 29, 2009 5:16 pm
Jon, The zip you download has to be extracted. Inside it is a .mshc and .msha that you need to register what Rob has created. You can use any zip program to...
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kyillee
Oct 29, 2009 6:17 pm
I have a very simple test help system (a single file) and when I use the Help Library Manager and click "Find content on disk" I end up getting a message: A...
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kyillee
Oct 29, 2009 6:42 pm
I got past that message, but am still curious where I would find that log. For others that are hitting that message, it turned out the issue for me was the...
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GWKNOLL
Oct 29, 2009 6:48 pm
Kylie, The log it is referring to is the Event Viewer/Log of the Operating System. Any errors that occur will be written by the Help Library Manager to the...
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kyillee
Oct 29, 2009 6:52 pm
I'm hitting the same thing (at least it seems like it). The help claims to be in place in HLM, and I'm in offline mode, but I don't see the help anywhere in...
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kyillee
Oct 29, 2009 6:55 pm
Ahh found it! Thanks so much Geoff....
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Rob Chandler
helpwarenet
Oct 30, 2009 1:09 am
Hi Kylie So please be aware that mshcMigrate can help you as you play on the bleeding edge. The Migration part ... OK that's not very useful yet because this...
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Rob Chandler
helpwarenet
Oct 31, 2009 1:33 am
Great Beta 2 bug found by Geoff... Using .HTML instead of .HTM, his images did not show. For me it also crashed the Agent (Listener) app pretty reliably. -- ...
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Paul
paul_orear
Nov 3, 2009 9:16 pm
Just a note that with the Beta 2 build that was released, we had a bug with not supporting more than one root node in the TOC. So to get your content to show...
