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Martin S. Müller
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I'm running Win7 with IE8 in a domain and encountered the issue that the local help of Visual Studio 2012 is displayed as the raw HTML source (which, btw, makes it a bit hard to read).
There already are two connect entries for this, both are closed, and some other threads. However, I still found no solution for my case. E.g. vs2012 help is displayed as raw html mentions registry keys.
Obviously, this has to do with with the "Open File based on content versus extension" (IE8) or "Enable MIME Sniffing" (IE9 and later). Setting this to "Enabled" resolves the issue - but only when you are able to change the setting.
The issue I and others are encountering is that we cannot change this setting because it is managed by some IT department and enforced by policies. In my case, the chance that I can convince the IT colleagues to change this policy is very very small.
I already tried to manually change the setting by modifying the registry values, but it seems to me IE completely ignores the settings in the registry.
So, the question is: Is there any workaround available in the case IE settings cannot be changed? Overriding policy with a registry key or command line argument? Convincing IE that the local help pages are from the "Local intranet" zone? Any hints?
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There already are two connect entries for this, both are closed, and some other threads. However, I still found no solution for my case. E.g. vs2012 help is displayed as raw html mentions registry keys.
Obviously, this has to do with with the "Open File based on content versus extension" (IE8) or "Enable MIME Sniffing" (IE9 and later). Setting this to "Enabled" resolves the issue - but only when you are able to change the setting.
The issue I and others are encountering is that we cannot change this setting because it is managed by some IT department and enforced by policies. In my case, the chance that I can convince the IT colleagues to change this policy is very very small.
I already tried to manually change the setting by modifying the registry values, but it seems to me IE completely ignores the settings in the registry.
So, the question is: Is there any workaround available in the case IE settings cannot be changed? Overriding policy with a registry key or command line argument? Convincing IE that the local help pages are from the "Local intranet" zone? Any hints?
Continue reading...