Hi Rob, Starting the Help 3 Viewer produces the message "VS2010 Help not installed". On the machine in question, VS2010 help was installed from a remote...
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Robert Chandler
helpwarenet
Jan 5, 2010 3:23 am
Hi Dave Anything interesting in the log (Options > Show Debug). Here is what the code does... In the registry Look in ...
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bfhdbb0
Jan 5, 2010 4:35 pm
Hi Rob, Sorry, I should have mentioned in original post that the log is empty and registry entries appear intact. AppRoot = C:\Program Files\Microsoft Help...
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Rob Chandler
helpwarenet
Jan 6, 2010 7:19 am
I'll email you directly Dave so we can sort this out. Thanks Rob At 02:49 AM 6/01/2010, bfhdbb0 wrote: Hi Rob, Sorry, I should have mentioned in original post...
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Rob Chandler
helpwarenet
Jan 6, 2010 7:21 am
Hi Dave I just read the the subject. You are only on Build 6. Not compatible with the latest Help. Please download the latest build (16). ...
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bfhdbb0
Jan 6, 2010 1:15 pm
Hi Rob, Very Strange. My last H3Viewer download was on Jan 4 and for some reason build 6 downloaded. Not sure how that happened. I'm up and running with build...
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phins_4ever
Jan 7, 2010 3:27 am
Hi Rob -- In a note last week, you mentioned that with the current migrate buid we can test F1 links. I've read and reread the "Introducing..." doc a number of...
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Paul O'Rear
paul_orear
Jan 7, 2010 10:47 pm
Hi Jackie - there is definitely support for JS & CSS, though Rob has correctly pointed out that there have been issues with this in a number of the builds. I'd...
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ncdingos
Jan 8, 2010 2:11 pm
Hi Celine, I set up a structured authoring system in FM with a coworker years ago, and I'm back contracting for that company now and looking at updating that...
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MSHelp3@yahoogroups.com
Jan 8, 2010 5:24 pm
Enter your vote today! A new poll has been created for the MSHelp3 group: What do you think about having to sign your help files? o We wont be signing our...
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Robert Chandler
helpwarenet
Jan 9, 2010 2:30 pm
Hi all Some companies sound like they will need to call help from their own applications. I've just done a brain dump on URLs, API and F1 here... ...
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Robert Chandler
helpwarenet
Jan 11, 2010 10:41 am
-- Poll Signing Poll is going well - Input from 30 of 70 members. Keep those votes coming in. And remember you can go back into the poll at any time and tweak...
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Ocean Wang
ocean.wang1015
Jan 11, 2010 11:30 am
hi, Let's say, I have integrated some functions with in VS2010 and I want to provide help files with it. Right now, I have created a mshc file for English...
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Rob Chandler
helpwarenet
Jan 11, 2010 2:43 pm
Hi Ocean Let me take a stab and Paul (Paul O'Rear [MS]) can set up both right ... all language version. * Yep you will need a programmer to create a custom...
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Dana Worley
dana_worley
Jan 11, 2010 5:20 pm
... Hi Rob, I believe that the only ramification of your certificate expiring is that you can't sign any new installations. ... *************************** ...
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Rob Chandler
helpwarenet
Jan 11, 2010 11:25 pm
Ah good. Thanks Dana. At 04:19 AM 12/01/2010, Dana Worley wrote: ... merry-go-round ... any ... unknown ... Hi Rob, I believe that the only ramification of...
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kyillee
Jan 12, 2010 12:54 am
I have a new Windows 7 machine with Visual Studio 2010 (and no other versions) and both Internet Explorer and Firefox installed. Yet when I open Visual Studio...
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Rob Cavicchio
rcavicch
Jan 12, 2010 3:05 am
... I would guess that somehow neither browser is identified as the system's default browser. I believe both have an option to make themselves the default...
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Robert Chandler
helpwarenet
Jan 12, 2010 4:16 am
My thoughts on Signing Help files in #help3 http://weblog.helpware.net/?p=418 Rob...
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Paul O'Rear
paul_orear
Jan 12, 2010 8:08 pm
Hi Kylie, Yes - in Windows 7 on the Start Menu there is a "Default Programs" option. If you select that, you can define the default browser from there. - P. ...
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kyillee
Jan 13, 2010 4:30 pm
Thank you both! After Rob's message, I checked and Firefox was already set as the default browser. With Paul's message I went to the "Default programs" option...
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allon_g
Jan 13, 2010 4:47 pm
Hi Rob, Love your H3Viewer! Really saved me since I am dependant on an Index to locate anything in the MSDN. Can I make a small improvement suggestion? In the...
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Robert Chandler
helpwarenet
Jan 13, 2010 5:14 pm
Hi Allon Good suggestions. Shall do. The IDs given to these pages are mostly the class name. I get that already so might as well display. Ids of standard pages...
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diegojer26
Jan 13, 2010 7:45 pm
Hi, A couple of questions related to "visible index" keywords: 1. The Microsoft.Help.Keywords meta tag uses a comma to differentiate between level1 and level2...
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Paul O'Rear
paul_orear
Jan 13, 2010 8:20 pm
One thing the old docs used to do was to use the 'Location' attribute from the .hxc file used to compile the .hxs. That attribute would usually indicate some...
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Rob Chandler
helpwarenet
Jan 14, 2010 2:47 am
Thanks Paul. The info coming back from the API call is Title, HelpID, FilePath (from memory) -- So if I include the HelpID that should help (at least for...
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rcavicchio@...
rcavicch
Jan 19, 2010 9:19 pm
Something occurred to me today with respect to Help 3. Since it's using ZIP as the file format, does it have the same 4 GB file size limit as the operating...
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Paul O'Rear
paul_orear
Jan 19, 2010 9:36 pm
Greetings Rob! It most likely does have that limit, though we would generally recommend several smaller .zips instead. The help system itself would not have a...
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Paul O'Rear
paul_orear
Jan 19, 2010 9:41 pm
Hello Jeremy - apologies for the delayed response. I've been trying to gather some specific answers. Re: #1, the Microsoft.Help.Keywords meta tag does *not*...
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Dana Worley
dana_worley
Jan 19, 2010 10:04 pm
I have had a bear of a time trying to get material displayed in the Help Viewer. It took a couple of installs to get the VS help documentation installed. I...
