Old guy question - VS2008 Professional and it's help system - why is it so f'd up?
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If you're a young guy, I'll take your answer too. I work in the land of embedded systems where nothing ever dies. Some of the systems I support use CE 4.2/5.0 and Embedded Visual C++ - a bastardized clone of VC++ 6.0 (I think). In EVC++ I can place my cursor on something I am interested in and press help - and I get help. Years pass, and now I also support a variant using WEC7 and VS2008. No matter how many times I have installed VS2008, help is trashed. It just does not work. I have spend days over the past years trying to resolve this issue. I want to do something stupid simple like click on CString and press F1 to pull up the class description. Nope, never happens. Any of you resolve this issue? Spoilers?
Charlie Gilley <italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape... "Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783 “They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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If you're a young guy, I'll take your answer too. I work in the land of embedded systems where nothing ever dies. Some of the systems I support use CE 4.2/5.0 and Embedded Visual C++ - a bastardized clone of VC++ 6.0 (I think). In EVC++ I can place my cursor on something I am interested in and press help - and I get help. Years pass, and now I also support a variant using WEC7 and VS2008. No matter how many times I have installed VS2008, help is trashed. It just does not work. I have spend days over the past years trying to resolve this issue. I want to do something stupid simple like click on CString and press F1 to pull up the class description. Nope, never happens. Any of you resolve this issue? Spoilers?
Charlie Gilley <italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape... "Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783 “They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
AFAIR, the latest VC++ edition that worked with the MSDN help good enough was VC++0. In every new VS edition it worked either worse either didn't work at all. :~
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AFAIR, the latest VC++ edition that worked with the MSDN help good enough was VC++0. In every new VS edition it worked either worse either didn't work at all. :~
0? lol, I agree. It's totally bizarre. I'll keep digging, maybe write my first article.
Charlie Gilley <italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape... "Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783 “They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759