Visual Studio help question

[Woody Splawn]

For reasons I have not yet identified I am having problems with the help
system in VS.net 2003. It seems as though it was working all right in the
past but it's not now. First of all I can't seem to get my search and help
icons to stay on the screen when in VS. In order to access the search
dialog I have to access the help menu and then select the search icon from
there.

Once clicked and the dialog retrieved I type in a word to search on like
"Insert" and select, for example, filter by Visual Basic. I run the search
and it comes back with many items. I select one of the result items and I
get a dialog/message saying "Please wait while Windows configures Visual
Studio.net English". Some sort of install begins and then I am asked to put
in my VS DVD in order to proceed. I do and the topic for the item I clicked
on does finally come up. If I close VS at this point and come back in and
do the same thing again, it goes through the same routine again and asks me
for the installation disk again. What gives? What can I do to get things
back to normal and fixed so that help is available all the time without a
re-install?

[Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]]

* "Woody Splawn" <wo***@splawns.com> scripsit:

For reasons I have not yet identified I am having problems with the help
system in VS.net 2003. It seems as though it was working all right in the
past but it's not now. First of all I can't seem to get my search and help
icons to stay on the screen when in VS. In order to access the search
dialog I have to access the help menu and then select the search icon from
there.

You may want to ask this question here:

<news://news.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.vsnet.general>

--
Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]
<http://www.mvps.org/dotnet>

[Woody Splawn]

I found at least part of the solutions. Following the suggestion of a 3rd
party book I changed my profile so that the radio was on external help
instead of internal help. When I set it back to Internal help the problem of
installing the help system each time went away. The reason I set it to
external help in the first place was so that help would come up in a window
of it's own. Is it possible to have help come up in a window of its own
without re-installing each time? Is this a know bug?

Also, is it possible to have th search icon on screen permanently, each time
I load VS or do I need to call it each time from the help menu.

Thank you in advance.

[Felix Wang]

Hi Woody,

Thanks for posting. I have replied you in another post under
"microsoft.public.dotnet.general". If you have time, please check and see
whether renaming the "MSO.DLL" helps or not.

Have a nice day!

Regards,

Felix Wang
Microsoft Online Partner Support
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