please(!) help with helpfiles

[colmag]

I've just bought the VB.net2003 deluxe learning edition,
whicn includes vb.net2003 standard and the step by step
book.

I'm please with my choice of language and the book is
great, but there doesn't appear to be ANY online help
installed whatsoever, and i can't find any on the 3 cd's
that were in the package (vb.net standard, vs.net
prerequisites, vb.net step by step).

The only way I can see of getting any kind of searchable
help file is to pay another £200 for an MSDN
subscription, which seems crazy. The software and book
cost £90, and I just find it hard to believe that a
LEARNING edition wouldn't contain any helpfiles.

I'm hoping that someone can tell me it's all my fault and
that i've missed something... (please!)

I've tried the self-help, help-yourself thing, and spent
hours trawling the ms websites and posting on the forums,
and can't find anything.

[Steven Smith]

From your description of the package you've recieved it
doesn't sound like you've been given the accompanying two
disc's which contain the MSDN library, which
unfortunately means you've got no help files, perhaps one
of the experts here can tell you otherwise but to me it
sounds like your stuck.

Thanks for the reply. I think i'm going to have to try
and phone someone at microsoft press to find out. The
lack of even a basic help file, not even MSDN libraries,
seems crazy.

-----Original Message-----
From your description of the package you've recieved it
doesn't sound like you've been given the accompanying twodisc's which contain the MSDN library, which
unfortunately means you've got no help files, perhaps oneof the experts here can tell you otherwise but to me it
sounds like your stuck.
.