Impact VS10 - Memorial Day Weekend Challenge

Impact VS10 - Memorial Day Weekend Challenge | Microsoft Share Point

Impact VS10 - Memorial Day Weekend Challenge | Microsoft Share Point — Sat, 23 May 2009 00:22:02 GMT

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re: Impact VS10 - Memorial Day Weekend Challenge

Some Guy — Sat, 23 May 2009 00:25:32 GMT

D) I don't really care. If you're on low bandwith install the msdn library disks that come with visual studio it'll be a lot faster and depending if you are on that 'expensive' connection alot cheaper as well.

losing the offline help in the next version would be a *BIG* mistake.

re: Impact VS10 - Memorial Day Weekend Challenge

Stefan Olson — Sat, 23 May 2009 02:08:46 GMT

April,

I am not keen on having the help running in a browser, at the very least it should run in a separate program containing a browser, because otherwise it becomes very hard to find where the help is.

I'm concerned about the use of the browser to provide all the help including the table of contents etc., which is what I understand will be happening because it is very difficult to get a decent keyboard interface.

Right now I can't seem to get any context-sensitive help for WPF, I end up at a page which says page not found, e.g: http://msdn.microsoft.com/query/dev10.query?appId=Dev10IDEF1&l=en-US&k=k("SYSTEM.WINDOWS.INPUT.ROUTEDCOMMAND.#CTOR");k(category-".NETFRAMEWORK;V4.0")&rd=true

When I can find my way to a page that I want, I note that there's no way to turn off the display of all the other languages that I don't care about.

Low bandwidth is certainly a lot faster than the old MSDN view, and also has the advantage that you don't have to click in a frame before you can press page down to scroll down.

I would certainly think I will vote A and stick with this for working with MSDN online, but I hope that the help file will have all the things that we've come to expect with Microsoft help, such as table of contents and an excellent index.

As a help authoring tool vendor, I haven't received any information on what the status of help authoring tools is with regard to the help 3 release.

...Stefan

re: Impact VS10 - Memorial Day Weekend Challenge

AprilR — Sat, 23 May 2009 19:08:05 GMT

Reply to Some Guy - We will have offline help in 2010...but the offline view will be much like this low-bandwidth view so we love your feedback here. Thanks!

April

re: Impact VS10 - Memorial Day Weekend Challenge

AprilR — Sat, 23 May 2009 19:09:48 GMT

Stefan -

Thanks for the feedback - and I'll check into the WPF F1 on Tuesday.

- April

re: Impact VS10 - Memorial Day Weekend Challenge

Charles Christian — Fri, 29 May 2009 00:13:37 GMT

Stefan, you are facing this issue due to an encoding issue. This is fixed in Beta2.