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pages. I always get a "Cannot find server". The table of content is working correctly but when I select a topic, the page cannot be display. Here is an example of the URL that is used to display a page: ms-help://MS.VSCC.2003/MS.MSDNQTR.2003FEB.1033/startsql/getstart_5v33.htm I uninstall VStudio .NET 2003 and re-install it completely. It's no use. I always get the same error. Does anybody knows what to do. I try to contact MS technical support for this, but they did not answered me yet.
I can't connect to the link you provided too. Perheps the link has been
relocated. Using Google, this link you are referring to is probably this one: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/startsql/getstart_5v33.asp You can search by the last part of filename as a temporary solution. Perheps you can try this link to see if the IDE help works: ms-help://MS.VSCC.2003/MS.MSDNQTR.2003FEB.1028/cpref/html/frlrfSystemArrayCl assLengthTopic.htm "Eric" <Eric@discussions.microsoft.com> ¦b¶l¥ó news:8B6E67F5-8FD0-491A-A8D7-18114E268426@microsoft.com ¤¤¼¶¼g... [quoted text, click to view] > For a reason unknow, the document explorer is not able to display any help > pages. I always get a "Cannot find server". The table of content is working > correctly but when I select a topic, the page cannot be display. Here is an > example of the URL that is used to display a page: > > ms-help://MS.VSCC.2003/MS.MSDNQTR.2003FEB.1033/startsql/getstart_5v33.htm > > I uninstall VStudio .NET 2003 and re-install it completely. It's no use. I > always get the same error. Does anybody knows what to do. I try to contact > MS technical support for this, but they did not answered me yet. >
I've found it. Try the following instead:
ms-help://MS.VSCC.2003/MS.MSDNQTR.2003FEB.1028/startsql/getstart_5v33.htm "Eric" <Eric@discussions.microsoft.com> ¦b¶l¥ó news:8B6E67F5-8FD0-491A-A8D7-18114E268426@microsoft.com ¤¤¼¶¼g... [quoted text, click to view] > For a reason unknow, the document explorer is not able to display any help > pages. I always get a "Cannot find server". The table of content is working > correctly but when I select a topic, the page cannot be display. Here is an > example of the URL that is used to display a page: > > ms-help://MS.VSCC.2003/MS.MSDNQTR.2003FEB.1033/startsql/getstart_5v33.htm > > I uninstall VStudio .NET 2003 and re-install it completely. It's no use. I > always get the same error. Does anybody knows what to do. I try to contact > MS technical support for this, but they did not answered me yet. >
Further information:
You can change the following registry key if you like: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\MSDN\7.0\Help Rename the key "ms-help://MS.MSDNQTR.2003FEB.1033" to "ms-help://MS.MSDNQTR.2003FEB.1028" should help. (Of course, you probably want to new the key instead. The type is also REG_SZ and value is "(no filter)") Then new the following registry tree: (Sorry, my VS.NET is Chinese edition) HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\MSDN\7.0\Help\0x0404\{65AE540E-1461-42 36-8B7F-5FA5FC49571A} Add the following: key type value (default) REG_SZ MSDN Library for Visual Studio .NET 2003 CHT Filename REG_SZ ms-help://MS.MSDNQTR.2003FEB.1028 Registration tree Copy the keys and values of "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\MSDN\7.0\Help\0x0404\{50027BAF-9270-4 6bb-9086-6DC6634EDEFE}\Registration" to here. These keys are directly found under registry of MSDN, so probably you'll need to modify elsewhere. "Eric" <Eric@discussions.microsoft.com> ¦b¶l¥ó news:8B6E67F5-8FD0-491A-A8D7-18114E268426@microsoft.com ¤¤¼¶¼g... [quoted text, click to view] > For a reason unknow, the document explorer is not able to display any help > pages. I always get a "Cannot find server". The table of content is working > correctly but when I select a topic, the page cannot be display. Here is an > example of the URL that is used to display a page: > > ms-help://MS.VSCC.2003/MS.MSDNQTR.2003FEB.1033/startsql/getstart_5v33.htm > > I uninstall VStudio .NET 2003 and re-install it completely. It's no use. I > always get the same error. Does anybody knows what to do. I try to contact > MS technical support for this, but they did not answered me yet. >
I am having the same problem and it's driving me crazy. Did the reply from
Lau Lei Cheong fix it? I'm reluctant to change the registry, and i would think that re-installing the sware would have fixed any registry problems. Please let me know if you get it fixed. Thanks. [quoted text, click to view] "Eric" wrote:
> For a reason unknow, the document explorer is not able to display any help > pages. I always get a "Cannot find server". The table of content is working > correctly but when I select a topic, the page cannot be display. Here is an > example of the URL that is used to display a page: > > ms-help://MS.VSCC.2003/MS.MSDNQTR.2003FEB.1033/startsql/getstart_5v33.htm > > I uninstall VStudio .NET 2003 and re-install it completely. It's no use. I > always get the same error. Does anybody knows what to do. I try to contact > MS technical support for this, but they did not answered me yet.
Tom,
Modifying those reg keys isn't a good idea and its not going to solve your issue. There could be several reasons why this isn't showing up correctly and its hard to tell from the info we have so far. First try re-registering hxds.dll at the command line: regsvr32 "C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Help\hxds.dll" Next, if this doesn't work try this: Open up VS and go to Tools, Options. Under Environment, select Help. In the right hand pane, try changing your Preferred collection to from Visual Studio .NET 2003 Combined Help Collection to MSDN Library for Visual Studio .NET 2003 Let me know how it goes and if its still not working I will try to help out further. Darren Parker Microsoft [quoted text, click to view] "tom" <tom@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:17719F49-BAC0-402B-8187-859E47AFB915@microsoft.com... >I am having the same problem and it's driving me crazy. Did the reply from > Lau Lei Cheong fix it? I'm reluctant to change the registry, and i would > think that re-installing the sware would have fixed any registry problems. > Please let me know if you get it fixed. Thanks. > > "Eric" wrote: > >> For a reason unknow, the document explorer is not able to display any >> help >> pages. I always get a "Cannot find server". The table of content is >> working >> correctly but when I select a topic, the page cannot be display. Here is >> an >> example of the URL that is used to display a page: >> >> ms-help://MS.VSCC.2003/MS.MSDNQTR.2003FEB.1033/startsql/getstart_5v33.htm >> >> I uninstall VStudio .NET 2003 and re-install it completely. It's no use. >> I >> always get the same error. Does anybody knows what to do. I try to >> contact >> MS technical support for this, but they did not answered me yet. >>
Thanks, but it still doesn't work. The firest time i try to access help, I
get "Action canceled" and from then on I get "The page cannot me displayed". In fact, it's worse than ever now - I used to get some pages, but never the 'leaf' nodes, now i get nothing but the DNS error. Samples of the addresses that are causing the error are ms-help://MS.MSDNQTR.2003FEB.1033/vcedit/html/vcorivisualcreferencenode.htm or ms-help://MS.MSDNQTR.2003FEB.1033/vcstdlib/html/vcoriStandardCLibraryReference.htm and these don't work for me even if i paste them into IE. Are they well-formed? Maybe my problem is with IE security or something. It used to work fine, and maybe there's a connection with the XP SP2 update. This problem seems to fairly common, there are lots of references in the developer community. I hope someone figures it out. Thanks for your help. Tom Graves [quoted text, click to view] "Darren Parker [MS]" wrote:
> Tom, > > Modifying those reg keys isn't a good idea and its not going to solve your > issue. > There could be several reasons why this isn't showing up correctly and its > hard to tell from the info we have so far. > > First try re-registering hxds.dll > at the command line: > regsvr32 "C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft > Shared\Help\hxds.dll" > > Next, if this doesn't work try this: > > Open up VS and go to Tools, Options. > Under Environment, select Help. > In the right hand pane, try changing your Preferred collection to from > Visual Studio .NET 2003 Combined Help Collection to MSDN Library for Visual > Studio .NET 2003 > > Let me know how it goes and if its still not working I will try to help out > further. > > Darren Parker > Microsoft > > "tom" <tom@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message > news:17719F49-BAC0-402B-8187-859E47AFB915@microsoft.com... > >I am having the same problem and it's driving me crazy. Did the reply from > > Lau Lei Cheong fix it? I'm reluctant to change the registry, and i would > > think that re-installing the sware would have fixed any registry problems. > > Please let me know if you get it fixed. Thanks. > > > > "Eric" wrote: > > > >> For a reason unknow, the document explorer is not able to display any > >> help > >> pages. I always get a "Cannot find server". The table of content is > >> working > >> correctly but when I select a topic, the page cannot be display. Here is > >> an > >> example of the URL that is used to display a page: > >> > >> ms-help://MS.VSCC.2003/MS.MSDNQTR.2003FEB.1033/startsql/getstart_5v33.htm > >> > >> I uninstall VStudio .NET 2003 and re-install it completely. It's no use. > >> I > >> always get the same error. Does anybody knows what to do. I try to > >> contact > >> MS technical support for this, but they did not answered me yet. > >> > >
Darren,
I am experincing the same problem. I can see the Index and Contents dialogs, but the main content page displays "Cannot find server". I have re-installed VSNET MSDN, verified the registry entries, re-register hxds.dll and changed the Perferred Collection setting in the vsnet IDE. I have all of the current updates and I am using XP Pro. I would apprecitate any suggestions. Thank you. [quoted text, click to view] "Darren Parker [MS]" wrote:
> Tom, > > Modifying those reg keys isn't a good idea and its not going to solve your > issue. > There could be several reasons why this isn't showing up correctly and its > hard to tell from the info we have so far. > > First try re-registering hxds.dll > at the command line: > regsvr32 "C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft > Shared\Help\hxds.dll" > > Next, if this doesn't work try this: > > Open up VS and go to Tools, Options. > Under Environment, select Help. > In the right hand pane, try changing your Preferred collection to from > Visual Studio .NET 2003 Combined Help Collection to MSDN Library for Visual > Studio .NET 2003 > > Let me know how it goes and if its still not working I will try to help out > further. > > Darren Parker > Microsoft > > "tom" <tom@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message > news:17719F49-BAC0-402B-8187-859E47AFB915@microsoft.com... > >I am having the same problem and it's driving me crazy. Did the reply from > > Lau Lei Cheong fix it? I'm reluctant to change the registry, and i would > > think that re-installing the sware would have fixed any registry problems. > > Please let me know if you get it fixed. Thanks. > > > > "Eric" wrote: > > > >> For a reason unknow, the document explorer is not able to display any > >> help > >> pages. I always get a "Cannot find server". The table of content is > >> working > >> correctly but when I select a topic, the page cannot be display. Here is > >> an > >> example of the URL that is used to display a page: > >> > >> ms-help://MS.VSCC.2003/MS.MSDNQTR.2003FEB.1033/startsql/getstart_5v33.htm > >> > >> I uninstall VStudio .NET 2003 and re-install it completely. It's no use. > >> I > >> always get the same error. Does anybody knows what to do. I try to > >> contact > >> MS technical support for this, but they did not answered me yet. > >> > >
I was able to resolve the problem based on finding information on other
sites. I logged in as another user on my XP Pro and renamed the directory: C:\Documents and Settings\<Your User ID>\Local Settings\Temporary Internet Files I know this is not the "recommended" approach but it worked. Thank you. [quoted text, click to view] "Bob" wrote:
> Darren, > > I am experincing the same problem. I can see the Index and Contents > dialogs, but the main content page displays "Cannot find server". I have > re-installed VSNET MSDN, verified the registry entries, re-register hxds.dll > and changed the Perferred Collection setting in the vsnet IDE. I have all > of the current updates and I am using XP Pro. > > I would apprecitate any suggestions. > > Thank you. > > "Darren Parker [MS]" wrote: > > > Tom, > > > > Modifying those reg keys isn't a good idea and its not going to solve your > > issue. > > There could be several reasons why this isn't showing up correctly and its > > hard to tell from the info we have so far. > > > > First try re-registering hxds.dll > > at the command line: > > regsvr32 "C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft > > Shared\Help\hxds.dll" > > > > Next, if this doesn't work try this: > > > > Open up VS and go to Tools, Options. > > Under Environment, select Help. > > In the right hand pane, try changing your Preferred collection to from > > Visual Studio .NET 2003 Combined Help Collection to MSDN Library for Visual > > Studio .NET 2003 > > > > Let me know how it goes and if its still not working I will try to help out > > further. > > > > Darren Parker > > Microsoft > > > > "tom" <tom@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message > > news:17719F49-BAC0-402B-8187-859E47AFB915@microsoft.com... > > >I am having the same problem and it's driving me crazy. Did the reply from > > > Lau Lei Cheong fix it? I'm reluctant to change the registry, and i would > > > think that re-installing the sware would have fixed any registry problems. > > > Please let me know if you get it fixed. Thanks. > > > > > > "Eric" wrote: > > > > > >> For a reason unknow, the document explorer is not able to display any > > >> help > > >> pages. I always get a "Cannot find server". The table of content is > > >> working > > >> correctly but when I select a topic, the page cannot be display. Here is > > >> an > > >> example of the URL that is used to display a page: > > >> > > >> ms-help://MS.VSCC.2003/MS.MSDNQTR.2003FEB.1033/startsql/getstart_5v33.htm > > >> > > >> I uninstall VStudio .NET 2003 and re-install it completely. It's no use. > > >> I > > >> always get the same error. Does anybody knows what to do. I try to > > >> contact > > >> MS technical support for this, but they did not answered me yet. > > >> > > > >
Bob, I tried to do what you recommended but wasn't able to rename the directory as another user on my XP Home.
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I still have the problem and I was not able to rename the folder bob mentoned (even when logged in as another user)
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Clear out all temporay internet files, then try using the "Move Folder"
(Internet Options->General->Temporay Internet files->settings->Move Folder). [quoted text, click to view] "Mathias" wrote:
> I still have the problem and I was not able to rename the folder bob mentoned (even when logged in as another user) > > From http://www.developmentnow.com/g/52_2005_1_0_0_24835/Re_Dynamic_help_MSDN_documentation_cannot_be_displayed.htm > > Posted via DevelopmentNow Groups > www.developmentnow.com/g > www.developmentnow.com
hi Bob,
sorry for the double post. Your tip worked, I got the msdn documentation running again. thanks a lot. Regards Mathias [quoted text, click to view] Bob wrote:
> Clear out all temporay internet files, then try using the "Move Folder" > (Internet Options->General->Temporay Internet files->settings->Move Folder). > > "Mathias" wrote: > > >>I still have the problem and I was not able to rename the folder bob mentoned (even when logged in as another user) >> >>From http://www.developmentnow.com/g/52_2005_1_0_0_24835/Re_Dynamic_help_MSDN_documentation_cannot_be_displayed.htm >> >>Posted via DevelopmentNow Groups >>www.developmentnow.com/g >>www.developmentnow.com >> >>
Thanks! Bob, I too experienced this same pblm after upgrading from VB.net Standard to VS Professional. I cleared out temp internet files & did the move & all is well. Good Job!
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