The Help Guy
Paul O'Rear's blog for all things Help technology related.
Installing Content From Downloaded Help Viewer 2.0 cabs
Today I have a guest post from my good friend and co-worker in the Help Viewer team, Malcolm...
Date: 04/10/2012
Hook Up Visual Studio 11 Developer Preview and Visual Studio Express for Windows Developer Preview to Visual Studio 11 Developer Preview content on MSDN
I hope you’ve been having fun exploring the new features of both Visual Studio 11 Developer...
Date: 09/21/2011
Help Viewer 2.0 + Visual Studio 11/Windows 8 Developer Preview
I've been rather quiet lately - but for good reason! (We've been really busy!) Hopefully, by now,...
Date: 09/15/2011
VS 2010 SP1 Beta now available - including new client Help Viewer!
Please check out my boss Jeff Braaten's blog regarding our new client help viewer now shipping with...
Date: 12/10/2010
Help Viewer 1.1 Preview Video
I’m excited to announce that we have just posted a preview video of Help Viewer 1.1, which...
Date: 10/27/2010
Help State of the Union (October 2010)
Periodically, questions come to Microsoft via a variety of avenues regarding our current guidance on...
Date: 10/26/2010
Fixed Help SDK download now available
Thanks for everyone who helped us identify the issue with our original download. We have rebuilt and...
Date: 09/01/2010
Help Viewer 1.0 SDK now available!
It's been a long time coming, but we have finally released the Help Viewer 1.0 SDK. It can be...
Date: 08/06/2010
Help-related resource pages
Since starting this blog, I've had a few requests to post links to various software products and...
Date: 08/05/2010
EC Software's Help & Manual now supporting Sandcastle
This just in from Tim Green @ EC Software, GmbH: Just saw your posts and the announcements about the...
Date: 07/01/2010
Re-post: Helixoft VSDocman adds support for VS 2010 Help
(It appears during forum migration this post got deleted from my blog - so re-posting...) I'm glad...
Date: 07/01/2010
Sandcastle with MSHC support has been released!
I'm pleased to announce that we have posted a release of Sandcastle that now supports the MSHC Help...
Date: 06/24/2010
Have you heard about the Preview of MSDN Online Updates?
If you've worked for any time at all with the .NET Framework and have looked up documentation in the...
Date: 06/22/2010
Updating multiple VS 2010 installations' Help content with a single download
A question that we've begun to see come up from folk that have generally low-bandwidth is whether...
Date: 04/29/2010
Clever workaround for getting dynamically inserted javascript or stylesheets to work in Help Viewer 1.0
Working with our Visual Studio 2010 (and earlier!) partners, I'm frequently impressed with the...
Date: 02/23/2010
Partner Content Discoverability Options in Visual Studio 2010, Part II: Shortcuts
One of the side benefits of the F1 feature I wrote about the other day is that vendors can...
Date: 02/16/2010
Partner Content Discoverability Options in Visual Studio 2010, Part I: Context Sensitive Help (F1)
If you haven't seen the announcement about the Visual Studio 2010 RC release - check out this page....
Date: 02/09/2010
Some updates
I added a few more items to the Known Issues page. Also, a new page added: Calling Help Viewer 1.0...
Date: 02/02/2010
Calling Help Viewer 1.0 from Visual Studio add-in code
The Visual Studio interface for launching Help using an F keyword (context sensitive help keyword)...
Date: 02/02/2010
Help Authoring Tool (HAT) support for Help Viewer 1.0
As we've been ramping up the new the Help Viewer and its associated Help file format (MSHC), we've...
Date: 01/26/2010
What are we trying to accomplish with code signing content?
Help file content and web content have historically been significant attack vectors that hackers and...
Date: 01/22/2010
How to sign your .cab files
(see highlighted section below for the specifics of creating a Test certificate) · Generate a .cab...
Date: 01/21/2010
Working with signed .cab files
There's been a fair amount of discussion both in private emails and on the MSHelp3 Yahoo! group...
Date: 01/21/2010
Known Issues
There are a handful of "known issues" with Help Viewer 1.0 that we will be shipping with at VS 2010...
Date: 01/20/2010
Known Issues with Help Viewer 1.0
· No ‘.’s allowed in .mshc/.cab file names; i.e. abc.mshc = good, abc.123.mshc = bad · No character...
Date: 01/20/2010
Which IVsHelp Interfaces are supported in Visual Studio 2010?
Please see my page posted here. As I publish new pages, they will all be easily accessed via the...
Date: 01/20/2010
Which IVsHelp Interface methods are supported in Visual Studio 2010?
Confirming with the VS Platform team, I have the following information. The following methods are...
Date: 01/20/2010
Welcome!
Hello and welcome to “The Help Guy” blog! Why “The Help Guy?” I was aiming for just “Help Guy”, but...
Date: 01/18/2010