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    John Boylan Monday, December 03, 2012 10:29 PM
    This forum has been locked; it is still available for review in the Archived Forums folder. Any future posts on this topic should be put in the Visual Studio General Questions forum.


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    Blogs Related to MTPS and Visual Studio 2010 Help Viewer
    Anand Raman - MSFT Monday, November 02, 2009 5:51 AM

    Kimberley Wolk, Product Unit Manager for the Library Experience team, will be blogging regularly about Microsoft TechNet Publishing System (MTPS) and Visual Studio 2010 Help Viewer at http://blogs.msdn.com/kwolk/


    MSDN TechNet Publishing System

    MTPS is a publishing solution that: Hosts global sites such as msdn.microsoft.com, technet.microsoft.com, expression.microsoft.com and help.outlook.com
    Provides public access to help content through web services and enables community tools like Publish This! and msdnman
    Delivers connected in-product help experiences for products like Visual Studio 2008, Exchange 2010 and Windows Server 2008
    Packages content that can be installed locally for offline use

    MSDN & TechNet Libraries

    The libraries contain reference and conceptual material that help developers and ITPro's use Microsoft technologies.  You can see these sites at:

    • http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/default.aspx
    • http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/default.aspx

    Visual Studio 2010 Help Viewer

    The Help Viewer is a new offline viewer releasing as part of Visual Studio 2010. The new architecture provides a level of openness that allows customers and partners to innovate on the experience and capabilities and drive offline Help forward to meet their needs.  For this release, our key tenets were:

    • View online and offline content in a familiar, browser-based experience
    • Ensure your local help is relevant and up-to-date
    • Get fast and relevant search results using F1 and full text searches
    • Benefit from a simple-standards-based architecture

    Anand..

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    PackageThis

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    10,000 files. Microsoft themselves break MSDN up into .mshc packages containing a maximum of 10,000 files each. If you stick to this maximum limit you should not have ...
    Sticky | 0 Replies | 5639 Views | Created by Rob Chandler [Help MVP] - Tuesday, October 02, 2012 11:39 AM
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    Welcome to Developer Documentation and Help System Forum

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      Questions, Comments, and Suggestions This forum is the place to post questions and comments about the .NET Framework, Sandcastle and Visual Studio ...
    Sticky | 0 Replies | 31967 Views | Created by Anand Raman - MSFT - Saturday, October 07, 2006 8:46 PM
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    How to handle Windows 7's 125% or 150% Magnification in VB.net

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    I am developing Winform applications in Visual Studio 2010 When my users change there screen Magnification in Windows 7 to 125% or 150% the controls on the forms do not appear ...
    Unanswered | 0 Replies | 5061 Views | Created by Eric Pickering - Wednesday, December 19, 2012 5:46 PM
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    Visual Studio 2010 Hangs with Busy Icon

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    I have to kill Visual Studie a dozen times a day becuase it hangs on the compile of the project.  I have generated a dump file, but I have no where to send it.   The found items do not ...
    Unanswered | 0 Replies | 3869 Views | Created by Robert1948 - Wednesday, December 19, 2012 4:20 PM
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    What's new in Visual studio 2012 and .NET Framework 4.5?

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    Hi,   Can anyone tell me clearly about what are the new features added in Visual Studio 2012 and .NET Framework 4.5 ? Though it is available in MSDN, it is vast and for ...
    Discussion | 1 Replies | 4449 Views | Created by Viswa V - Wednesday, December 19, 2012 4:19 AM | Last reply by Konrad Neitzel - Wednesday, December 19, 2012 4:12 PM
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    How do I get rid of the "Visual Studio 2010" folder in My Documents?

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    Hi everyone. Every time it runs, Visual Studio creates a folder called "Visual Studio 2010" in the "My Documents" folder. I don't want it ...
    Unanswered | 7 Replies | 10467 Views | Created by 'TC' - Friday, August 03, 2012 10:49 PM | Last reply by Shawn Gibbs [MSFT] - Wednesday, December 19, 2012 1:19 PM
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    Deploying Help Viewer 2.0 Content

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    We sell components that customers use in their .NET applications.  When our components are installed, we install our own help content (generated via Sandcastle) so that our customers may view ...
    Answered | 19 Replies | 7979 Views | Created by Abram - Wednesday, March 28, 2012 6:38 PM | Last reply by EWoodruff - Tuesday, December 18, 2012 4:25 PM
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    Help Viewer 2.0 Breaks Self-Branded Content

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    I've ran into several issues with the Help Viewer 2.0 in VS 2012 when using it with self-branded content.  Does Help Viewer 2.0 still support self-branded content?  Has anyone else ran into ...
    Proposed | 9 Replies | 6214 Views | Created by EWoodruff - Monday, September 24, 2012 12:00 AM | Last reply by name1elf111 - Tuesday, December 18, 2012 7:39 AM
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    VB.Net - Datagridview, count specific records in a column

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    = #" & DTPQry1.Text & "# and DateOfCall
    Unanswered | 0 Replies | 5139 Views | Created by MBuchok - Monday, December 17, 2012 3:09 AM
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    HTML help workshop images problem

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    Hi, I try to build a HTML help online files. I successfully builed new project with table of contents. the html files are word documents that i changed them to ...
    Unanswered | 5 Replies | 8299 Views | Created by o.b ness - Tuesday, December 04, 2012 8:05 AM | Last reply by Rob Chandler [Help MVP] - Monday, December 17, 2012 1:55 AM
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    MVC3: Conflicting versions of ASP.NET Web Pages detected: specified version is “1.0.0.0”, but the version in bin is “2.0.0.0”.

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    I am getting the following error after installing microsoft web helper: Conflicting versions of ASP.NET Web Pages detected: specified version is "1.0.0.0", but the version ...
    Unanswered | 0 Replies | 6945 Views | Created by VS-MV3-2012 - Sunday, December 16, 2012 1:43 PM
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    Solving LNK2022 error: Duplicate Managed type have different visibilities

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    Hello All! I don't know if this problem has been solved and published somewhere but I can't find help. Any idea? I'm ...
    Unanswered | 2 Replies | 5855 Views | Created by dom_beau - Monday, October 01, 2012 2:03 PM | Last reply by davidhunter22 - Thursday, December 13, 2012 10:19 PM
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    How to force rebuild of Document explorer index manually

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    On my Visa machine I have installed VStudio Team Suite, Team Foundation Client, and VStudio DB professional. all upgraded to SP1 (took me 4 hours to update :-) After installing ...
    Answered | 8 Replies | 8798 Views | Created by Guenter - Sunday, February 25, 2007 6:58 PM | Last reply by Louis10 - Monday, December 10, 2012 3:14 PM
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    MSDN Library for Visual Studio 2008. No Table of Contents or Index

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    I installed VS2008 RTM.  After this was complete I installed the MSDN library that came on the disk.  When I start VS2008 and try to display a Table of Contents or Index I get "No table ...
    Answered | 16 Replies | 17697 Views | Created by Dan_____________M - Sunday, November 25, 2007 2:47 AM | Last reply by Louis10 - Monday, December 10, 2012 3:09 PM
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    MSDN Librrary (DVD uninstalled by MSDN Library for visual studio 2008 (DVD).

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    11 1 12 When Visual Studio 2008 came out. The installer for the "MSDN Library for visual studio 2008 (DVD)" would uninstall the  ...
    Unanswered | 3 Replies | 5157 Views | Created by MichaelJoBillyJimBob - Sunday, November 11, 2012 3:00 AM | Last reply by MichaelJoBillyJimBob - Monday, December 10, 2012 7:51 AM
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    Windows Phone 8 Apps, Windows 8 Apps and Windows RT Apps

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    Hi, I am going to develop Windows 8 ,windows phone 8 and Windows RT apps using visual studio 2012.So that Windows 8 ,windows phone 8 and Windows RT apps ...
    Proposed | 2 Replies | 4179 Views | Created by Anuss - Tuesday, November 06, 2012 8:02 AM | Last reply by councilsoft - Sunday, December 09, 2012 9:16 PM
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    Installing help in VS2012 from offline HelpLibrary copied from VS2010

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    Hi there I copied VS 2012 help library from C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\HelpLibrary\  I was successful in installing help content in VS"2010" on other PCs by ...
    Unanswered | 0 Replies | 4755 Views | Created by Mahesha999 - Saturday, December 08, 2012 7:34 AM
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    After applying Update 1 of VS2012 - Error:A content file required by the Help Viewer is missing or has been corrupted.

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    After installing the Update 1 of VS 2012, and starting Help Viewer, it displays the following error message and quits. "A ...
    Answered | 11 Replies | 8026 Views | Created by falcon31 - Wednesday, November 28, 2012 6:10 AM | Last reply by Chaz Zeromus - Saturday, December 08, 2012 3:06 AM
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    Forcing a number of rows on SSRS report

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    We have a document that has a grid in the middle of the page. We want to limit the grid to 15 lines per page. Once it exceeds 15 lines we want the report to continue on the next page. That's the part ...
    Unanswered | 0 Replies | 3694 Views | Created by GregDz - Friday, December 07, 2012 9:00 PM
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    MSDN Library 6a silent uninstall procedure

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    hi i installed MSDN library silently by using the following command line setup.exe /n "username" /o "organization" /qtn it installed silently but i am ...
    Unanswered | 0 Replies | 3836 Views | Created by enthusiasm1985 - Friday, December 07, 2012 6:36 PM
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    Visual studio 2012 publish database project to sql instance on a separate server fails when firewall is turned on

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    Computer A has visual studio 2012 with a sql database project. Computer B has windows server 2008 r2 and sql server 2008 r2. I am trying to publish the database project from visual studio to ...
    Unanswered | 2 Replies | 4346 Views | Created by Logan Manning - Thursday, November 01, 2012 1:31 PM | Last reply by murtazagandhi - Friday, December 07, 2012 1:28 PM
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    LAN CHAT APPLICATION HELP

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    good day to all. Am new to the world of networking on LAN, i need help to get me in the right direction in creating a LAN Chat that has the capability to send file across the ...
    Proposed | 3 Replies | 3875 Views | Created by tarhe - Thursday, November 08, 2012 11:06 AM | Last reply by murtazagandhi - Friday, December 07, 2012 12:26 PM
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Developer Documentation and Help System announcement

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    This Forum Has Been Retired
    John Boylan Monday, December 03, 2012 10:29 PM
    This forum has been locked; it is still available for review in the Archived Forums folder. Any future posts on this topic should be put in the Visual Studio General Questions forum.


  • Link
    Blogs Related to MTPS and Visual Studio 2010 Help Viewer
    Anand Raman - MSFT Monday, November 02, 2009 5:51 AM

    Kimberley Wolk, Product Unit Manager for the Library Experience team, will be blogging regularly about Microsoft TechNet Publishing System (MTPS) and Visual Studio 2010 Help Viewer at http://blogs.msdn.com/kwolk/


    MSDN TechNet Publishing System

    MTPS is a publishing solution that: Hosts global sites such as msdn.microsoft.com, technet.microsoft.com, expression.microsoft.com and help.outlook.com
    Provides public access to help content through web services and enables community tools like Publish This! and msdnman
    Delivers connected in-product help experiences for products like Visual Studio 2008, Exchange 2010 and Windows Server 2008
    Packages content that can be installed locally for offline use

    MSDN & TechNet Libraries

    The libraries contain reference and conceptual material that help developers and ITPro's use Microsoft technologies.  You can see these sites at:

    • http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/default.aspx
    • http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/default.aspx

    Visual Studio 2010 Help Viewer

    The Help Viewer is a new offline viewer releasing as part of Visual Studio 2010. The new architecture provides a level of openness that allows customers and partners to innovate on the experience and capabilities and drive offline Help forward to meet their needs.  For this release, our key tenets were:

    • View online and offline content in a familiar, browser-based experience
    • Ensure your local help is relevant and up-to-date
    • Get fast and relevant search results using F1 and full text searches
    • Benefit from a simple-standards-based architecture

    Anand..


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