| Subject: Visual Studio 2008 Help |
| Group: microsoft.public.vstudio.general |
| Date: 4/15/2008 8:46:11 AM |
| From: "Tom" [Email Address Protection] |
I have Visual Studio 2008 running on 32-bit Vista. Recently, I installed an XSD addin from liquid technologies to assist with XSD creation. Anyway, now whenever I press the F1 key for help, I always get a "Help Updates in Progress" dialog that never goes away. There are lots of google hits to this, and they basically suggest that I need to let this finish indexing. However, my dev machine is not connected to the Internet, and I can't connect it to the Internet. The MSDN help works fine if I start it locally, but it's very annoying that I can't hit F1 (especially since VS2008 crashes and it appears there is no way to cancel this feature). Is there a way to disable this functionality so that I can get my F1 capability back (without having to re-install/repair anything), or am I doomed to be sad forever by starting the help locally on the system? |
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| Subject: Re: Visual Studio 2008 Help |
| Group: microsoft.public.vstudio.general |
| Date: 4/15/2008 10:07:07 AM |
| From: "PvdG42" [Email Address Protection] |
"Tom" <tom.smith.123@live.com> wrote in message news:2535F84A-819C-4C81-AEFA-E03B7C1B7AA7@microsoft.com... >I have Visual Studio 2008 running on 32-bit Vista. Recently, I installed >an XSD addin from liquid technologies to assist with XSD creation. > > Anyway, now whenever I press the F1 key for help, I always get a "Help > Updates in Progress" dialog that never goes away. > > There are lots of google hits to this, and they basically suggest that I > need to let this finish indexing. However, my dev machine is not > connected to the Internet, and I can't connect it to the Internet. > > The MSDN help works fine if I start it locally, but it's very annoying > that I can't hit F1 (especially since VS2008 crashes and it appears there > is no way to cancel this feature). > > Is there a way to disable this functionality so that I can get my F1 > capability back (without having to re-install/repair anything), or am I > doomed to be sad forever by starting the help locally on the system? > > > I looked for a way, in Tools->Options, to change the primary source for Help to local but didn't find it. When you installed the Help originally, you were given the option to change the primary help source from the default, online. It sounds as if you didn't change it. There may well be a better way, but I'd uninstall the MSDN Help, then reinstall it, making sure you do a full install to put all the help on your hard drive, then select local hard drive as the default help source. |
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