"John V. Barone" <baronej@georgetown_u.edu> wrote in message
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> I have had VS.NET installed for several months with no major problems, but
> last night I installed the Dundas chart and Component One Suite from the
VB
> Resource Kit, and now the 2003 Combined Help is broken as follows:
>
> 1. In VS 2003 Help, the only namespaces which show up under the contents
> screen are Dundas and ComponentOne. Several other namespaces should be
> listed also. The various items for the missing namespaces **do** show up
in
> the filter combo box (but selecting them only serves to clear the contents
> box entirely), and the individual topics show up and open via the index.
> 2. If I go to 2003 Combined Help Collection Manager
> (ms-help://MS.VSCC.2003/VSCCCommon/cm/CollectionManager.htm), it will show
> all the other namespaces that should also be listed.
> 3. If I make a change via the Collection Manager (as to force a
remerging
> of the collection), close & reopen VS, nothing happens; no "Help Is
> Rebuilding Indexes" message, and certainly not any more namespaces in the
> Combined Help.
> 4. The Tools/Options/Environment/Help dialog has the expected entries
> listed (i.e., no blanks)
> 5. I also have VS 2002 on my box, and the Combined Help for that product
is
> working as expected.
> 6. I can also open up the individual Help namespaces in question via
> H2Viewer.exe. The only problem is that 2003 Combined Help as apparently
> decided to stop updating itself.
>
> Any help, suggestions, tips on how to fix would be much appreciated.
>
> John Barone
>
>