Questions tagged [help-viewer]
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My help book keeps loading, never displays
My app points to a help book in its plist file :
CFBundleHelpBookFolder
MyApp.help
CFBundleHelpBookName
com.bruno.myapp.help
The help book's structure is as follows :
MyApp.Help > Contents >…

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HelpLibManager.exe: How to avoid "a file required by help library manager is missing" error box?
We have an installation of our .NET Framework developer tool designated for .NET 4+ and VS 2010-2013. The installator includes the accompanying help file in the MS Help Viewer format that should be installed automatically.
Our installation is built…

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attributes in Microsoft Help Viewer/MSHC
The help pages in the MSHelp2/HxS help format contain MSHelp:Attr attributes like this:
These attributes could be used for filtering content in MSHelp2/HxS viewers.
We converted HxS helps we have…

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Set general text size option in WinForms WebBrowser control
We have a WinForms app for the classic .NET Framework 4.7. One of the forms contains an instance of the WebBrowser control to render HTML documents. It turned out that if someone changes the Text Size option in Microsoft Help Viewer in Visual…

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Ms HelpViewer 2.2 for Asp.Net Core
I'm using VS 2015 and why I can't see documentation for ASP.Net core, ASP.Net Core API Reference, Nuget & MVC
in Ms Help Viewer 2.2 ? This is My Last update Ms Help Viewer 2.2
Meanwhile, VS 2017 is more complete.
Does Anyone has same issue…

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Where to download Xamarin Help Content?
I'm using Xamarin for Visual Studio 2015 and cannot find a link to download Help contents.

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Installing help content for VS 2013 fails with "the requested operation cannot be performed on a file with a user-mapped while installing"
I'm trying to install help content for VS 2013 and it fails with following message:
I have fresh Lenovo laptop with Windows 10 Home. I've tried:
Restart
Taking ownership on C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\HelpLibrary2\Catalogs
Unchecking "Read only" on…

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How to reset the content in HelpViewer 2.0,2.1 and 2.2?
I found how to do this for Help Viewer 1.0: http://mshcmigrate.helpmvp.com/news/moveorresetyourvs2010helplibrary#TOC-Moving-the-VS-2010-Help-Library. How can I reset the contents in the above versions?
Doing it from the UI seems to leave something…

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Custom Help Content will not install, intermittent
I'm trying to install help content in Visual Studio 2013's HelpViewer 2.1 and am getting intermittent errors.
The help sometimes fails to install.
We have an msi installer which runs the following command.
"C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Help…

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How do I deploy Assistant with my app on Mac without deploying multiple copies of Qt Frameworks?
I am trying to deploy a Qt application that uses the Assistant to show help, on mac (OS X 10.6-10.9, Qt 4.8)
QStringList args = "-collectionFile " + "my_help_file";
QString app = "path/"+"Assistant.app";
m_helpProcess->start(app, args);
I placed…

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What is the equivalent to Microsoft Help Viewer in Visual Studio 2012?
I'd like to create a help viewer like the one available on Visual Studio 2010 called Microsoft Help Viewer according to Wikipedia, what is its equivalent on Visual Studio 2012 as it seen to be not available?

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Mac App - Distributed Version of Help Not Working Fully. Links broken
Mac App - Distributed Version of Help Not Working Fully.
Development machine : OS X 10.8.2, on late 2008 MBP , Xcode 4.5.2
The app has a nine html page help system. Each page shares a sidebar menu with
nine choices. Each menu choice involves a link…

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