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Monday, November 02, 2009 10:53 PM

Fixing your VS 2010 Beta 2 help

If you are experiencing problems with your Beta 2 help, you may need to repair it, especially if you had a prior tech preview installed. The Help 3 team blogs tells you how to fix it: http://blogs.msdn.com/help3team/archive/2009/10/21/how-to-repair-a-help-viewer-help-3-beta-2-installation.aspx
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Monday, November 02, 2009 10:48 PM

Visual Studio Library Experience News

Kim Wolk, the new Product Unit Manager for the online and offline Visual Studio help experience, has started a blog. You can get a good look under the hood and follow the developments in this area here: http://blogs.msdn.com/kwolk Enjoy~ AprilR
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Thursday, October 08, 2009 1:11 PM

Fun C++ history

Rico Mariani has quite simply become one of my favorite people, professionally and personally. Not long after I first met him, as we started working on the problem of fixing Visual Studio help, about a year ago, I would describe him to people as the "Energizer
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Tuesday, June 16, 2009 1:10 PM

Moving on again!

Hey there blog readers :) Just a quick post to let you know that I am moving again - this time to Microsoft Surface I have been in our Developer Division for 11 years; I have had a great time working on the development of Microsoft Help 3.0, and unforgettable
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Friday, May 22, 2009 1:59 PM

Impact VS10 - Memorial Day Weekend Challenge

The word is out - and so far, customer feedback is extremely positive about the MSDN low-bandwidth view . But what about you? You should have a say, too. So my challenge to you this weekend is to take a moment to check it out if you haven't already and
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Wednesday, May 20, 2009 4:15 PM

Help 3 is getting its Social on

In case you missed it below - the help 3 team is keeping you up to date and providing resources for help 3 through modern means: Twitter - Follow @help3! Join the MVPs on Facebook - there is a Help 3 page and a Help 3 group - there are also groups for
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Monday, May 18, 2009 12:09 PM

Early Parts of Help3 come to life in Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1!

Soma has announced the release of the first Beta of the next version of Visual Studio is available to MSDN subscribers. In this release, you will see that product documentation is only available online. While you are using that, do us a favor and try
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Wednesday, April 01, 2009 9:55 AM

Help3 @ WritersUA

Monday I presented the latest news on Microsoft Help 3.0 at the 2009 Software User Assistance conference hosted by WritersUA! We've made a lot of progress and many design decisions and changes since PDC back in October. We had originally expected to be
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Thursday, September 25, 2008 9:55 PM

Help 3 @ the PDC

When I last wrote, we had just kicked off our user group tour and the team was just getting going. Since then, we have staffed all but one position, vetted an architecture and decided on the 'v1.0' set of features for our new help platform. We also created
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Tuesday, March 04, 2008 9:39 AM

Help Team User Group Rounds Kick-off in L.A.

As you may have seen or heard by now, there is a new team dedicated to improving the help experience in Visual Studio. If you already know that then hopefully you also know that we realize that including you in the planning process is important! I will
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Tuesday, January 29, 2008 7:19 AM

Hear More on Channel 9

If you haven't already discovered Channel9 , you have been missing out! There are tons of informative, and in some cases funny, videos about all sorts of developer-y things! Make sure to stop and look around when you go. That Channel 9 guy has been all
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Monday, January 28, 2008 4:28 PM

Help is Getting Help - The Long Overdue Makeover for Visual Studio and MSDN Help

We heard you, and if you heard a loud cry of joy from the Pacific Northwest around the middle of December, you may have heard me! I'm thrilled to report that Microsoft's Server and Tools Business has decided to invest in significantly improving the Developer
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Thursday, October 11, 2007 9:38 PM

How to Provide Feedback on VS and .NET Framework Documentation

Kathleen provides good information about ways to give feedback on the documentation: http://blogs.msdn.com/kathleen/archive/2007/10/11/wanted-feedback-on-visual-studio-content.aspx April
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Thursday, October 11, 2007 9:12 PM

April Wan Kenobi Update

What's this, you ask? Well, check out: http://blogs.msdn.com/somasegar/archive/2007/08/08/visual-c-futures.aspx#4432520 Thanks Jan :D I want to tell you that because of your comments, dear readers, not only here but on Soma's blog, I think we are getting
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Monday, August 21, 2006 10:51 AM

Check out MSDN's lab!

You might not have discovered it, so I'll point it out. Here is a video of Jeremiah Andrick talking about MSDN Search and what we are trying to do to improve it. He even shows you a demo of the development site, which you have access to ( http://lab.msdn.microsoft.com
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