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So here I am working on a WPF app. I wanted to see the docs on a type, so I placed the cursor on the type name, and pressed F1 eagerly awaiting the Help app to open on the type's page. Unfortunately I get a "Help Update In Progress" dialogue - even though I haven't installed anything recently. And MS was so clever that they made VS unusable when this help update is in process; if I try to do anything in VS I get a "Delay Notification" dialogue box giving me the choice to either keep waiting, or switch to the app it is waiting for. Why in all that is holy and mighty can't I keep working in VS while the Help explorer is updating? God this is annoying.....123!"#!"%¤"¤%U¤)#%#¤
"When you have made evil the means of survival, do not expect men to remain good. Do not expect them to stay moral and lose their lives for the purpose of becoming the fodder of the immoral. Do not expect them to produce, when production is punished and looting rewarded. Do not ask, `Who is destroying the world?' You are."
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So here I am working on a WPF app. I wanted to see the docs on a type, so I placed the cursor on the type name, and pressed F1 eagerly awaiting the Help app to open on the type's page. Unfortunately I get a "Help Update In Progress" dialogue - even though I haven't installed anything recently. And MS was so clever that they made VS unusable when this help update is in process; if I try to do anything in VS I get a "Delay Notification" dialogue box giving me the choice to either keep waiting, or switch to the app it is waiting for. Why in all that is holy and mighty can't I keep working in VS while the Help explorer is updating? God this is annoying.....123!"#!"%¤"¤%U¤)#%#¤
"When you have made evil the means of survival, do not expect men to remain good. Do not expect them to stay moral and lose their lives for the purpose of becoming the fodder of the immoral. Do not expect them to produce, when production is punished and looting rewarded. Do not ask, `Who is destroying the world?' You are."
-Atlas Shrugged, Ayn RandI stopped using the Help on VS years ago, I always break out to google when helpo is required. But I agree the help on VS sucks.
Software Kinetics - Moving software
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So here I am working on a WPF app. I wanted to see the docs on a type, so I placed the cursor on the type name, and pressed F1 eagerly awaiting the Help app to open on the type's page. Unfortunately I get a "Help Update In Progress" dialogue - even though I haven't installed anything recently. And MS was so clever that they made VS unusable when this help update is in process; if I try to do anything in VS I get a "Delay Notification" dialogue box giving me the choice to either keep waiting, or switch to the app it is waiting for. Why in all that is holy and mighty can't I keep working in VS while the Help explorer is updating? God this is annoying.....123!"#!"%¤"¤%U¤)#%#¤
"When you have made evil the means of survival, do not expect men to remain good. Do not expect them to stay moral and lose their lives for the purpose of becoming the fodder of the immoral. Do not expect them to produce, when production is punished and looting rewarded. Do not ask, `Who is destroying the world?' You are."
-Atlas Shrugged, Ayn RandFinally...after five minutes the help app opens.....with an "Information not found"-page. I swear...I feel like "#!"¤%#"%"%#
"When you have made evil the means of survival, do not expect men to remain good. Do not expect them to stay moral and lose their lives for the purpose of becoming the fodder of the immoral. Do not expect them to produce, when production is punished and looting rewarded. Do not ask, `Who is destroying the world?' You are."
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So here I am working on a WPF app. I wanted to see the docs on a type, so I placed the cursor on the type name, and pressed F1 eagerly awaiting the Help app to open on the type's page. Unfortunately I get a "Help Update In Progress" dialogue - even though I haven't installed anything recently. And MS was so clever that they made VS unusable when this help update is in process; if I try to do anything in VS I get a "Delay Notification" dialogue box giving me the choice to either keep waiting, or switch to the app it is waiting for. Why in all that is holy and mighty can't I keep working in VS while the Help explorer is updating? God this is annoying.....123!"#!"%¤"¤%U¤)#%#¤
"When you have made evil the means of survival, do not expect men to remain good. Do not expect them to stay moral and lose their lives for the purpose of becoming the fodder of the immoral. Do not expect them to produce, when production is punished and looting rewarded. Do not ask, `Who is destroying the world?' You are."
-Atlas Shrugged, Ayn RandPeople still use that ? I just type the class name into google.
Christian Graus Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista.
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So here I am working on a WPF app. I wanted to see the docs on a type, so I placed the cursor on the type name, and pressed F1 eagerly awaiting the Help app to open on the type's page. Unfortunately I get a "Help Update In Progress" dialogue - even though I haven't installed anything recently. And MS was so clever that they made VS unusable when this help update is in process; if I try to do anything in VS I get a "Delay Notification" dialogue box giving me the choice to either keep waiting, or switch to the app it is waiting for. Why in all that is holy and mighty can't I keep working in VS while the Help explorer is updating? God this is annoying.....123!"#!"%¤"¤%U¤)#%#¤
"When you have made evil the means of survival, do not expect men to remain good. Do not expect them to stay moral and lose their lives for the purpose of becoming the fodder of the immoral. Do not expect them to produce, when production is punished and looting rewarded. Do not ask, `Who is destroying the world?' You are."
-Atlas Shrugged, Ayn RandI get the same effect as hitting F1 when I stick my tongue in a light socket.
Todd Smith
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Finally...after five minutes the help app opens.....with an "Information not found"-page. I swear...I feel like "#!"¤%#"%"%#
"When you have made evil the means of survival, do not expect men to remain good. Do not expect them to stay moral and lose their lives for the purpose of becoming the fodder of the immoral. Do not expect them to produce, when production is punished and looting rewarded. Do not ask, `Who is destroying the world?' You are."
-Atlas Shrugged, Ayn RandI had this exact same experience. I just don't even bother using the help in VS anymore.
I didn't get any requirements for the signature
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People still use that ? I just type the class name into google.
Christian Graus Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista.
I usually do that as well. But the type I wanted to peruse, was the Image type. And so I thought that it would be easier to hit F1, than to type System.Windows.Controls.Image into Google (just typing Image obviously isn't that big of a help :)). Of course, I was wrong. X| X|
"When you have made evil the means of survival, do not expect men to remain good. Do not expect them to stay moral and lose their lives for the purpose of becoming the fodder of the immoral. Do not expect them to produce, when production is punished and looting rewarded. Do not ask, `Who is destroying the world?' You are."
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So here I am working on a WPF app. I wanted to see the docs on a type, so I placed the cursor on the type name, and pressed F1 eagerly awaiting the Help app to open on the type's page. Unfortunately I get a "Help Update In Progress" dialogue - even though I haven't installed anything recently. And MS was so clever that they made VS unusable when this help update is in process; if I try to do anything in VS I get a "Delay Notification" dialogue box giving me the choice to either keep waiting, or switch to the app it is waiting for. Why in all that is holy and mighty can't I keep working in VS while the Help explorer is updating? God this is annoying.....123!"#!"%¤"¤%U¤)#%#¤
"When you have made evil the means of survival, do not expect men to remain good. Do not expect them to stay moral and lose their lives for the purpose of becoming the fodder of the immoral. Do not expect them to produce, when production is punished and looting rewarded. Do not ask, `Who is destroying the world?' You are."
-Atlas Shrugged, Ayn RandI usually open the help separately - so it won't block the VS UI. That way even if it freezes with an update for several minutes, VS remains usable.
Regards, Nish
Nish’s thoughts on MFC, C++/CLI and .NET (my blog)
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I usually do that as well. But the type I wanted to peruse, was the Image type. And so I thought that it would be easier to hit F1, than to type System.Windows.Controls.Image into Google (just typing Image obviously isn't that big of a help :)). Of course, I was wrong. X| X|
"When you have made evil the means of survival, do not expect men to remain good. Do not expect them to stay moral and lose their lives for the purpose of becoming the fodder of the immoral. Do not expect them to produce, when production is punished and looting rewarded. Do not ask, `Who is destroying the world?' You are."
-Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Randimage wpf site:microsoft.com is what I would have done.
Christian Graus Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista.
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So here I am working on a WPF app. I wanted to see the docs on a type, so I placed the cursor on the type name, and pressed F1 eagerly awaiting the Help app to open on the type's page. Unfortunately I get a "Help Update In Progress" dialogue - even though I haven't installed anything recently. And MS was so clever that they made VS unusable when this help update is in process; if I try to do anything in VS I get a "Delay Notification" dialogue box giving me the choice to either keep waiting, or switch to the app it is waiting for. Why in all that is holy and mighty can't I keep working in VS while the Help explorer is updating? God this is annoying.....123!"#!"%¤"¤%U¤)#%#¤
"When you have made evil the means of survival, do not expect men to remain good. Do not expect them to stay moral and lose their lives for the purpose of becoming the fodder of the immoral. Do not expect them to produce, when production is punished and looting rewarded. Do not ask, `Who is destroying the world?' You are."
-Atlas Shrugged, Ayn RandLike Christian, I use Google. The only time I use F1 help is when I accidentally hit F1 (usually when I hit F2 to refactor->rename). Visual Studio has put in me a deep fear of the F1 key.
Tech, life, family, faith: Give me a visit. The apostle Paul, modernly speaking: Epistles of Paul Judah Himango
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So here I am working on a WPF app. I wanted to see the docs on a type, so I placed the cursor on the type name, and pressed F1 eagerly awaiting the Help app to open on the type's page. Unfortunately I get a "Help Update In Progress" dialogue - even though I haven't installed anything recently. And MS was so clever that they made VS unusable when this help update is in process; if I try to do anything in VS I get a "Delay Notification" dialogue box giving me the choice to either keep waiting, or switch to the app it is waiting for. Why in all that is holy and mighty can't I keep working in VS while the Help explorer is updating? God this is annoying.....123!"#!"%¤"¤%U¤)#%#¤
"When you have made evil the means of survival, do not expect men to remain good. Do not expect them to stay moral and lose their lives for the purpose of becoming the fodder of the immoral. Do not expect them to produce, when production is punished and looting rewarded. Do not ask, `Who is destroying the world?' You are."
-Atlas Shrugged, Ayn RandI use F1 help, and feel your pain. But it's much worse in SQL Server.
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I get the same effect as hitting F1 when I stick my tongue in a light socket.
Todd Smith
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Software Kinetics - Moving software
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So here I am working on a WPF app. I wanted to see the docs on a type, so I placed the cursor on the type name, and pressed F1 eagerly awaiting the Help app to open on the type's page. Unfortunately I get a "Help Update In Progress" dialogue - even though I haven't installed anything recently. And MS was so clever that they made VS unusable when this help update is in process; if I try to do anything in VS I get a "Delay Notification" dialogue box giving me the choice to either keep waiting, or switch to the app it is waiting for. Why in all that is holy and mighty can't I keep working in VS while the Help explorer is updating? God this is annoying.....123!"#!"%¤"¤%U¤)#%#¤
"When you have made evil the means of survival, do not expect men to remain good. Do not expect them to stay moral and lose their lives for the purpose of becoming the fodder of the immoral. Do not expect them to produce, when production is punished and looting rewarded. Do not ask, `Who is destroying the world?' You are."
-Atlas Shrugged, Ayn RandThe wait is just a one time penalty, just sit it out. You already wasted more time on posting here on CP. :zzz:
Wout
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The wait is just a one time penalty, just sit it out. You already wasted more time on posting here on CP. :zzz:
Wout
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So here I am working on a WPF app. I wanted to see the docs on a type, so I placed the cursor on the type name, and pressed F1 eagerly awaiting the Help app to open on the type's page. Unfortunately I get a "Help Update In Progress" dialogue - even though I haven't installed anything recently. And MS was so clever that they made VS unusable when this help update is in process; if I try to do anything in VS I get a "Delay Notification" dialogue box giving me the choice to either keep waiting, or switch to the app it is waiting for. Why in all that is holy and mighty can't I keep working in VS while the Help explorer is updating? God this is annoying.....123!"#!"%¤"¤%U¤)#%#¤
"When you have made evil the means of survival, do not expect men to remain good. Do not expect them to stay moral and lose their lives for the purpose of becoming the fodder of the immoral. Do not expect them to produce, when production is punished and looting rewarded. Do not ask, `Who is destroying the world?' You are."
-Atlas Shrugged, Ayn RandThat is to give you time to browse CP and answer a couple of questions in the forums :)
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I usually do that as well. But the type I wanted to peruse, was the Image type. And so I thought that it would be easier to hit F1, than to type System.Windows.Controls.Image into Google (just typing Image obviously isn't that big of a help :)). Of course, I was wrong. X| X|
"When you have made evil the means of survival, do not expect men to remain good. Do not expect them to stay moral and lose their lives for the purpose of becoming the fodder of the immoral. Do not expect them to produce, when production is punished and looting rewarded. Do not ask, `Who is destroying the world?' You are."
-Atlas Shrugged, Ayn RandFrom the details I have gleaned from between your exceedingly bad language :) it sounds very much like your help has become corrupted. After all you'd expect it to find 'Image' wouldn't you? I had the same thing recently. I tried the 'Visual Studio 2008 Combined Help Collection Manager' (VSCC) even though all looked OK. Incidentally MS seem to have done something right because typing VSCC into help actually brought up the tool, even though everything else was broken. In the end I had to reinstall help.
Henry Minute If you open a can of worms, any viable solution *MUST* involve a larger can.
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I usually open the help separately - so it won't block the VS UI. That way even if it freezes with an update for several minutes, VS remains usable.
Regards, Nish
Nish’s thoughts on MFC, C++/CLI and .NET (my blog)
My latest book : C++/CLI in Action / Amazon.com linkNishant Sivakumar wrote:
I usually open the help separately - so it won't block the VS UI
Nobody likes a smarty-pants! :-D
Henry Minute If you open a can of worms, any viable solution *MUST* involve a larger can.
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Nishant Sivakumar wrote:
I usually open the help separately - so it won't block the VS UI
Nobody likes a smarty-pants! :-D
Henry Minute If you open a can of worms, any viable solution *MUST* involve a larger can.
Henry Minute wrote:
Nobody likes a smarty-pants!
My bad! :laugh:
Regards, Nish
Nish’s thoughts on MFC, C++/CLI and .NET (my blog)
My latest book : C++/CLI in Action / Amazon.com link -
So here I am working on a WPF app. I wanted to see the docs on a type, so I placed the cursor on the type name, and pressed F1 eagerly awaiting the Help app to open on the type's page. Unfortunately I get a "Help Update In Progress" dialogue - even though I haven't installed anything recently. And MS was so clever that they made VS unusable when this help update is in process; if I try to do anything in VS I get a "Delay Notification" dialogue box giving me the choice to either keep waiting, or switch to the app it is waiting for. Why in all that is holy and mighty can't I keep working in VS while the Help explorer is updating? God this is annoying.....123!"#!"%¤"¤%U¤)#%#¤
"When you have made evil the means of survival, do not expect men to remain good. Do not expect them to stay moral and lose their lives for the purpose of becoming the fodder of the immoral. Do not expect them to produce, when production is punished and looting rewarded. Do not ask, `Who is destroying the world?' You are."
-Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand -
So here I am working on a WPF app. I wanted to see the docs on a type, so I placed the cursor on the type name, and pressed F1 eagerly awaiting the Help app to open on the type's page. Unfortunately I get a "Help Update In Progress" dialogue - even though I haven't installed anything recently. And MS was so clever that they made VS unusable when this help update is in process; if I try to do anything in VS I get a "Delay Notification" dialogue box giving me the choice to either keep waiting, or switch to the app it is waiting for. Why in all that is holy and mighty can't I keep working in VS while the Help explorer is updating? God this is annoying.....123!"#!"%¤"¤%U¤)#%#¤
"When you have made evil the means of survival, do not expect men to remain good. Do not expect them to stay moral and lose their lives for the purpose of becoming the fodder of the immoral. Do not expect them to produce, when production is punished and looting rewarded. Do not ask, `Who is destroying the world?' You are."
-Atlas Shrugged, Ayn RandSomeone needs to write a VS add-in that will invoke google instead of VS help. Hmmmmm...
Best wishes, Hans
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