Where is the help?

[Mark]

I have loaded Visual Studio .net on my home computer and my laptop, but my
home computer has an abbreviated help screen not 2% of the help on my laptop.
All the settings look the same on both including search the internet for
help, but the help is worthless. Any ideas?

[Brian P. Hammer]

MSDN installed on one and not the other? Help integrated into one and not
the other?

Brian

"Mark" <Ma**@discussions.microsoft.comwrote in message
news:B6**********************************@microsof t.com...

>I have loaded Visual Studio .net on my home computer and my laptop, but my
home computer has an abbreviated help screen not 2% of the help on my
laptop.
All the settings look the same on both including search the internet for
help, but the help is worthless. Any ideas?

[Mark]

When I am in VB, I select the Help/Search and only a handfull of items are
listed in the help. My laptop displays thousands of items. What do you think?

"Brian P. Hammer" wrote:

MSDN installed on one and not the other? Help integrated into one and not
the other?

Brian

"Mark" <Ma**@discussions.microsoft.comwrote in message
news:B6**********************************@microsof t.com...

I have loaded Visual Studio .net on my home computer and my laptop, but my
home computer has an abbreviated help screen not 2% of the help on my
laptop.
All the settings look the same on both including search the internet for
help, but the help is worthless. Any ideas?

[Brian P. Hammer]

First, which version of studio are your using? I have assumed 2005 since you
referred to internet help as well. Second, when you say listed in help,
where do you mean listed? What are you seeing or not seeing? Possible
ideas:

MSDN is not installed
You have your list filtered by a language
You have Language, Technology or Content Type filtered to something....

HTH,
Brian
"Mark" <Ma**@discussions.microsoft.comwrote in message
news:83**********************************@microsof t.com...

When I am in VB, I select the Help/Search and only a handfull of items are
listed in the help. My laptop displays thousands of items. What do you
think?

"Brian P. Hammer" wrote:

>MSDN installed on one and not the other? Help integrated into one and
not
the other?

Brian

"Mark" <Ma**@discussions.microsoft.comwrote in message
news:B6**********************************@microso ft.com...

>I have loaded Visual Studio .net on my home computer and my laptop, but
my
home computer has an abbreviated help screen not 2% of the help on my
laptop.
All the settings look the same on both including search the internet
for
help, but the help is worthless. Any ideas?

[clintonG]

My help for VS2005 has never worked. It can not find anything locally and
nobody has ever responded to any questions I have asked in the various
newsgroups I have sought help on help from.

--
<%= Clinton Gallagher
NET csgallagher AT metromilwaukee.com
URL http://clintongallagher.metromilwaukee.com/
MAP 43°2'17"N 88°2'37"W : 43°2'17"N 88°2'37"W
"Brian P. Hammer" <Br*********@community.nospamwrote in message
news:%2****************@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...

First, which version of studio are your using? I have assumed 2005 since
you referred to internet help as well. Second, when you say listed in
help, where do you mean listed? What are you seeing or not seeing?
Possible ideas:

MSDN is not installed
You have your list filtered by a language
You have Language, Technology or Content Type filtered to something....

HTH,
Brian
"Mark" <Ma**@discussions.microsoft.comwrote in message
news:83**********************************@microsof t.com...

>When I am in VB, I select the Help/Search and only a handfull of items
are
listed in the help. My laptop displays thousands of items. What do you
think?

"Brian P. Hammer" wrote:

>>MSDN installed on one and not the other? Help integrated into one and
not
the other?

Brian

"Mark" <Ma**@discussions.microsoft.comwrote in message
news:B6**********************************@micros oft.com...
I have loaded Visual Studio .net on my home computer and my laptop, but
my
home computer has an abbreviated help screen not 2% of the help on my
laptop.
All the settings look the same on both including search the internet
for
help, but the help is worthless. Any ideas?

[Mark]

When I bring up the help index, on the left side of me screen where it says
index, filtered by: no filter there is about 2 1/2 pages of items. On my
laptop, there are over 2000 pages of help items. I don't really know what
MSDN is other than what is on the internet. I am using 2005. There are no
other languages or filters that I can see. If it is MSDN, how to install it
as there does not seem to be anything else to install.

"Brian P. Hammer" wrote:

First, which version of studio are your using? I have assumed 2005 since you
referred to internet help as well. Second, when you say listed in help,
where do you mean listed? What are you seeing or not seeing? Possible
ideas:

MSDN is not installed
You have your list filtered by a language
You have Language, Technology or Content Type filtered to something....

HTH,
Brian
"Mark" <Ma**@discussions.microsoft.comwrote in message
news:83**********************************@microsof t.com...

When I am in VB, I select the Help/Search and only a handfull of items are
listed in the help. My laptop displays thousands of items. What do you
think?

"Brian P. Hammer" wrote:

MSDN installed on one and not the other? Help integrated into one and
not
the other?

Brian

"Mark" <Ma**@discussions.microsoft.comwrote in message
news:B6**********************************@microsof t.com...
I have loaded Visual Studio .net on my home computer and my laptop, but
my
home computer has an abbreviated help screen not 2% of the help on my
laptop.
All the settings look the same on both including search the internet
for
help, but the help is worthless. Any ideas?

[Brian P. Hammer]

I thought that some form of MSDN help came with VS. It should be on the
CD/DVD media. The only other thought I have is that for some reason, the
help files did not get integrated with VS. Sorry I can't be of more help.

Brian

"Mark" <Ma**@discussions.microsoft.comwrote in message
news:BF**********************************@microsof t.com...

When I bring up the help index, on the left side of me screen where it
says
index, filtered by: no filter there is about 2 1/2 pages of items. On my
laptop, there are over 2000 pages of help items. I don't really know what
MSDN is other than what is on the internet. I am using 2005. There are
no
other languages or filters that I can see. If it is MSDN, how to install
it
as there does not seem to be anything else to install.

"Brian P. Hammer" wrote:

>First, which version of studio are your using? I have assumed 2005 since
you
referred to internet help as well. Second, when you say listed in help,
where do you mean listed? What are you seeing or not seeing? Possible
ideas:

MSDN is not installed
You have your list filtered by a language
You have Language, Technology or Content Type filtered to something....

HTH,
Brian
"Mark" <Ma**@discussions.microsoft.comwrote in message
news:83**********************************@microso ft.com...

When I am in VB, I select the Help/Search and only a handfull of items
are
listed in the help. My laptop displays thousands of items. What do you
think?

"Brian P. Hammer" wrote:

MSDN installed on one and not the other? Help integrated into one and
not
the other?

Brian

"Mark" <Ma**@discussions.microsoft.comwrote in message
news:B6**********************************@microso ft.com...
I have loaded Visual Studio .net on my home computer and my laptop,
but
my
home computer has an abbreviated help screen not 2% of the help on
my
laptop.
All the settings look the same on both including search the internet
for
help, but the help is worthless. Any ideas?

[Steve Long]

Is help even integrated in VS 2005? If I click on the Index item under the
help menu, it brings up a seperate window with help loaded in that.
Conversly, in VS 2003, you could type class names, etc., right there in the
IDE and get help. I would really like to know how to get it back to being
integrated like with VS 2003.

Anybody???

Steve
"Brian P. Hammer" <Br*********@community.nospamwrote in message
news:O9**************@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...

>I thought that some form of MSDN help came with VS. It should be on the
CD/DVD media. The only other thought I have is that for some reason, the
help files did not get integrated with VS. Sorry I can't be of more help.

Brian

"Mark" <Ma**@discussions.microsoft.comwrote in message
news:BF**********************************@microsof t.com...

>When I bring up the help index, on the left side of me screen where it
says
index, filtered by: no filter there is about 2 1/2 pages of items. On my
laptop, there are over 2000 pages of help items. I don't really know
what
MSDN is other than what is on the internet. I am using 2005. There are
no
other languages or filters that I can see. If it is MSDN, how to install
it
as there does not seem to be anything else to install.

"Brian P. Hammer" wrote:

>>First, which version of studio are your using? I have assumed 2005 since
you
referred to internet help as well. Second, when you say listed in help,
where do you mean listed? What are you seeing or not seeing? Possible
ideas:

MSDN is not installed
You have your list filtered by a language
You have Language, Technology or Content Type filtered to something....

HTH,
Brian
"Mark" <Ma**@discussions.microsoft.comwrote in message
news:83**********************************@micros oft.com...
When I am in VB, I select the Help/Search and only a handfull of items
are
listed in the help. My laptop displays thousands of items. What do
you
think?

"Brian P. Hammer" wrote:

MSDN installed on one and not the other? Help integrated into one
and
not
the other?

Brian

"Mark" <Ma**@discussions.microsoft.comwrote in message
news:B6**********************************@micros oft.com...
I have loaded Visual Studio .net on my home computer and my laptop,
but
my
home computer has an abbreviated help screen not 2% of the help on
my
laptop.
All the settings look the same on both including search the
internet
for
help, but the help is worthless. Any ideas?

[clintonG]

I would like help on help too. Help itself sucks now and it sure seems even
those willing to help don't know how to solve some of the problems. SQL
Server BOL is also really FUBAR.

Even if something is found to be helpful we still can't even create a folder
to save Favorites or synchronize those Favorites with other Favorites on the
same machine. Everything -- and I mean everything -- about Microsoft's
products has become GFS.

I really hope Ray Ozzie will make quality priority #1.

<%= Clinton Gallagher
NET csgallagher AT metromilwaukee.com
URL http://clintongallagher.metromilwaukee.com/
MAP 43°2'17"N 88°2'37"W : 43°2'17"N 88°2'37"W
"Steve Long" <St**********@NoSpam.comwrote in message
news:eh**************@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...

Is help even integrated in VS 2005? If I click on the Index item under the
help menu, it brings up a seperate window with help loaded in that.
Conversly, in VS 2003, you could type class names, etc., right there in
the IDE and get help. I would really like to know how to get it back to
being integrated like with VS 2003.

Anybody???

Steve
"Brian P. Hammer" <Br*********@community.nospamwrote in message
news:O9**************@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...

>>I thought that some form of MSDN help came with VS. It should be on the
CD/DVD media. The only other thought I have is that for some reason, the
help files did not get integrated with VS. Sorry I can't be of more help.

Brian

"Mark" <Ma**@discussions.microsoft.comwrote in message
news:BF**********************************@microso ft.com...

>>When I bring up the help index, on the left side of me screen where it
says
index, filtered by: no filter there is about 2 1/2 pages of items. On my
laptop, there are over 2000 pages of help items. I don't really know
what
MSDN is other than what is on the internet. I am using 2005. There are
no
other languages or filters that I can see. If it is MSDN, how to
install it
as there does not seem to be anything else to install.

"Brian P. Hammer" wrote:

First, which version of studio are your using? I have assumed 2005
since you
referred to internet help as well. Second, when you say listed in help,
where do you mean listed? What are you seeing or not seeing? Possible
ideas:

MSDN is not installed
You have your list filtered by a language
You have Language, Technology or Content Type filtered to something....

HTH,
Brian
"Mark" <Ma**@discussions.microsoft.comwrote in message
news:83**********************************@micro soft.com...
When I am in VB, I select the Help/Search and only a handfull of
items are
listed in the help. My laptop displays thousands of items. What do
you
think?

"Brian P. Hammer" wrote:

MSDN installed on one and not the other? Help integrated into one
and
not
the other?

Brian

"Mark" <Ma**@discussions.microsoft.comwrote in message
news:B6**********************************@micro soft.com...
I have loaded Visual Studio .net on my home computer and my laptop,
but
my
home computer has an abbreviated help screen not 2% of the help on
my
laptop.
All the settings look the same on both including search the
internet
for
help, but the help is worthless. Any ideas?