Add all of Safari’s book Content to your Help in VS 2005

The Quote:

Safari’s Visual Studio Help Integration (VSHI) tool lets you search across Safari’s online repository of over 2000 technical titles to find exactly the example or code fragment you need to answer the question at hand. Best of all, these results are delivered to you from within Visual Studio 2005 Beta Help.  Register today to download the free Safari VSHI trial version and gain full access to Safari’s e-reference library for 30 days at no charge. Click here to download the VSHI tool now (https://secure.safaribooksonline.com/?mode=promo&promocode=vshi2005&portal=msdn).

A few weeks after you start using the tool, Visual Studio and Safari will send you a questionnaire requesting your feedback on the product.

Josh Says:

Adding this will create a new results tab in your VS 2005 help search page that gives you access to all of the great content described above.  I think this type of integration is going to be pretty popular once VS 2005 ships.

Comments

• Anonymous
  October 21, 2004
  AT Ask:
  
  Why not use Google (or MSN / Yahoo / Yandex.ru / Lycos / Excite / Altavista / Infoseek) or Encyclopedia Britanica or WikiPedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_Studio_.NET ;-)??
  
  As well - does it mean that Microsoft will outsource all documentation efforts and keep current MSDN Documentation as 1.5Gb+ of trash ?
• Anonymous
  October 21, 2004
  When we ship we hope to provide customers with a sample help provider that they could customize to use with any information source they'd like.
  
  No, we will continue shipping documentation through MSDN as well. Those teams are always looking to improve and if you have constructive feedback for them you should log it to the feedback center in the documentation category.
• Anonymous
  November 07, 2004
  Seems like a great idea.