"Terence Shek" <tshek@pacbell.net> wrote in message
news:06cf01c3562d$e849e5e0$a301280a@phx.gbl...
> The network could be an issue. How do I find out where
> visual studio is looking for the online help? This is the
> setting I've been unable to locate.
>
> >-----Original Message-----
> >I do not think there is any IDE setting you could alter
> that would cause
> >this to occur. The question is, what did happen?
> Presumably you have not
> >deleted some Help (.hxs) files from your system. Could
> it be a network
> >problem -- is your online Help installed on your
> computer or is it on a
> >network share?
> >
> >--Roger
> >_______________________________
> >Roger Haight
> >Developer Division User Assistance
> >Microsoft Corporation
> >
> >This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and
> confers no rights.
> >
> >"Terence Shek" <tshek@pacbell.net> wrote in message
> >news:022901c35526$ee39cef0$a101280a@phx.gbl...
> >> Suddenly I'm not able to access the online help from
> >> within visual studio 2003. When I select a help topic I
> >> get this message instead of the help page:
> >> ----------
> >> The page cannot be displayed
> >>
> >> The page you are looking for is currently unavailable.
> >> The Web site might be experiencing technical
> >> difficulties, or you may need to adjust your browser
> >> settings.
> >> ----------
> >> Is there some IDE setting that I inadvertently changed?
> >
> >
> >.
> >

>-----Original Message-----
>Nuts. Terence, I'm reading at home, so I don't have
Visual Studio in front
>of me, and I cannot remember where to look for this
information. I'm going
>to make a couple of suggestions (because I won't be at
work for the next
>couple of days to get a better look), but I may be
sending you on a wild
>goose chase.
>
>You can look in the \Program Files folder on your system
for the Visual
>Studio folder. One of its subfolders should be and MSDN
folder. A level or
>two under that (in a folder named "1033", I think, a
value representing
>English-US) will be a folder full of hundreds of files
having a ".HXS"
>filename extension. That is, IF your Help is installed
locally, that's where
>it would appear. If there are only a handful of .HXS
files installed there,
>that probably means that you have most of the Help on
the network somewhere,
>and just a few basics regarding setup are installed
locally.
>
>The Tools menu has an Options command that opens a big
dialog box. One part
>of that dialog has a Help section that lets you select
a "collection" of
>Help topics. I think the right collection to choose
is "Visual Studio
>Combined Collection," which is the complete set of
Visual Studio Help
>topics. But I do not think there is anything in that
dialog that specifies
>an actual physical location (whether network or local
installation) of the
>Help files. But I may be mistaken, so check it out.
>You might also want to look up the Combined Help
Collection Manager via the
>Index, if it is working for you. Use the
string "installing documentation
>for Visual Studio .NET" in the Index lookup box. I
suppose that even if you
>can do that you may get a "page cannot be displayed"
error, but I'm hoping
>that a few basic online Help pages are still available
to you. I dunno.
>I apologize for the tardy, scattershot response.
>
>--Roger
>_______________________________
>Roger Haight
>Developer Division User Assistance
>Microsoft Corporation
>
>This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and
confers no rights.
>
>
>"Terence Shek" <tshek@pacbell.net> wrote in message
>news:06cf01c3562d$e849e5e0$a301280a@phx.gbl...
>> The network could be an issue. How do I find out where
>> visual studio is looking for the online help? This is
the
>> setting I've been unable to locate.
>>
>> >-----Original Message-----
>> >I do not think there is any IDE setting you could
alter
>> that would cause
>> >this to occur. The question is, what did happen?
>> Presumably you have not
>> >deleted some Help (.hxs) files from your system. Could
>> it be a network
>> >problem -- is your online Help installed on your
>> computer or is it on a
>> >network share?
>> >
>> >--Roger
>> >_______________________________
>> >Roger Haight
>> >Developer Division User Assistance
>> >Microsoft Corporation
>> >
>> >This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties,
and
>> confers no rights.
>> >
>> >"Terence Shek" <tshek@pacbell.net> wrote in message
>> >news:022901c35526$ee39cef0$a101280a@phx.gbl...
>> >> Suddenly I'm not able to access the online help from
>> >> within visual studio 2003. When I select a help
topic I
>> >> get this message instead of the help page:
>> >> ----------
>> >> The page cannot be displayed
>> >>
>> >> The page you are looking for is currently
unavailable.
>> >> The Web site might be experiencing technical
>> >> difficulties, or you may need to adjust your browser
>> >> settings.
>> >> ----------
>> >> Is there some IDE setting that I inadvertently
changed?
>> >
>> >
>> >.
>> >
>
>
>.