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Im running VS2010 Premium on Win7 64. I have no local help, am using online help.
Visual Studio Help doesnt work very well on my PC. Online helps hardly displays the right page. So I use a web search engine instead of VS Help.
For example, in a C++ file, when I hit F1 on "time()" keyword, a web browser is opened, trying to reach following url:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/query/dev10.query?appId=Dev10IDEF1&l=EN-US&k=k(%22TIME%2fTIME%22);k(TIME);k(DevLang-%22C%2B%2B%22);k(TargetOS-WINDOWS)&rd=true http://msdn.microsoft.com/query/dev10.query?appId=Dev10IDEF1&l=EN-US&k=k(%22TIME%2fTIME%22);k(TIME);k(DevLang-%22C%2B%2B%22);k(TargetOS-WINDOWS)&rd=true
This link seems fine (querying for TIME in C++ for DEV10)
But this page redirects automatically to Time property of .Net class Factoid:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/microsoft.ink.factoid.time.aspx?queryresult=true http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/microsoft.ink.factoid.time.aspx?queryresult=true
Why does it display this page? I am doing something wrong? How can I get help for CRT time() function using VS10 help?
Note : my help settings are default settings for Online Help. When I click on menu Help/Manage Help Settings, I get an error message "You do not have permission to modify content under the location specified for help content" before the Help Library Manager
opens. In Help Manager, the only enabled option is "Choose online or local help", other options are grayed. When I click on "Choose online or local help", option "I want to use online help" is checked, and Library Location is "C
rogramDataMicrosoftHelpLibrary",
which is disabled, I did not modify this value.
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Visual Studio Help doesnt work very well on my PC. Online helps hardly displays the right page. So I use a web search engine instead of VS Help.
For example, in a C++ file, when I hit F1 on "time()" keyword, a web browser is opened, trying to reach following url:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/query/dev10.query?appId=Dev10IDEF1&l=EN-US&k=k(%22TIME%2fTIME%22);k(TIME);k(DevLang-%22C%2B%2B%22);k(TargetOS-WINDOWS)&rd=true http://msdn.microsoft.com/query/dev10.query?appId=Dev10IDEF1&l=EN-US&k=k(%22TIME%2fTIME%22);k(TIME);k(DevLang-%22C%2B%2B%22);k(TargetOS-WINDOWS)&rd=true
This link seems fine (querying for TIME in C++ for DEV10)
But this page redirects automatically to Time property of .Net class Factoid:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/microsoft.ink.factoid.time.aspx?queryresult=true http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/microsoft.ink.factoid.time.aspx?queryresult=true
Why does it display this page? I am doing something wrong? How can I get help for CRT time() function using VS10 help?
Note : my help settings are default settings for Online Help. When I click on menu Help/Manage Help Settings, I get an error message "You do not have permission to modify content under the location specified for help content" before the Help Library Manager
opens. In Help Manager, the only enabled option is "Choose online or local help", other options are grayed. When I click on "Choose online or local help", option "I want to use online help" is checked, and Library Location is "C
rogramDataMicrosoftHelpLibrary",which is disabled, I did not modify this value.
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