Turning off Dynamic Help in VS 2002/2003
Anssi made a comment on my blog that reflects some general feedback I've had from various users about the Dynamic Help:
Someone on comments already asked this, but i couldn't notice a response. Can you turn dynamic help permanently off (won't come back on when making new solution or project) somewhere? I would like this as i don't find it useful and it seems hog resources a bit when writing code. (guess you can't notice it unless you are low on memory or slow hdd).
In VS 2002 and 2003, there is not way through the IDE to turn off Dynamic Help but where there is a registry there is a way! You can turn it off via the following registry key:
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\VisualStudio\7.1\Dynamic Help]
"Never Show DH on F1"="YES"
Warning: The Dynamic help window is used to disambiguate when F1 returns multiple results. Adding this registry key will mean that if multiple matches are found when you hit F1 on something only the first topic will be returned.
In Whidbey we don't use the Dynamic help for disambiguation so you can simply close the window and it won't reincarnate itself. We are also not showing the Dynamic help window by default in the default C# settings file.
