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My Visual Studio 2010 SP1 Best Feature - Microsoft Help Viewer 1.1 for

As you may already know, Microsoft released the first service pack for Visual Studio 2010.

And yes, there are tons of improvements, bug fixes, crash fixes and performance issues.

I think SP1 is great for the developers and I really appreciate that.

 

One of the most annoying and frustrating features came out with Visual Studio 2010 is the poor web-based help center.

Up until VS2010 came out we where used to have a great help viewer, and then Boom… it was gone!

 

Fortunately, the Microsoft Visual Studio Team heard our pains and now with the new VS2010 SP1 we have a new viewer, based on WPF of course :).

And here is how it looks like:

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Looking at this great help viewer using Snoop, you may observe that the viewer is a wrapper around the new HTML based help system:

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Now I can go back to business.

Cheers!

Published Wednesday, March 16, 2011 4:19 PM by Tomer Shamam

Comments

# re: My Visual Studio 2010 SP1 Best Feature - Microsoft Help Viewer 1.1 for

Sunday, March 20, 2011 3:08 PM by pavely

Definitely an improvement over the web help version... but still can't print more than one topic at the time - regression from the VS 2008 days.

# re: My Visual Studio 2010 SP1 Best Feature - Microsoft Help Viewer 1.1 for

Sunday, March 20, 2011 3:13 PM by Tomer Shamam

Spare the pages, be green and use eInk ;)

# re: My Visual Studio 2010 SP1 Best Feature - Microsoft Help Viewer 1.1 for

Saturday, June 11, 2011 4:53 PM by PAMKKKKK

This is still a very poor Implementation!

And nearly useless!

Use H3 Viewer instaed, this is feature rich and usefull!

mshcmigrate.helpmvp.com/viewer

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