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Improvements to Visual Studio Help

The top customer requests from the Visual Studio Content Survey are to improve search and F1.  Well, improvements to Help are on the way!  The Server and Tools Business division has created a team of engineers dedicated to improving the Help experience for Visual Studio and MSDN.  See April Reagan's blog posting to learn more, or see her in this video interview as she describes the future of MSDN Help.

--Kathleen

Published Tuesday, January 29, 2008 6:08 PM by kmcgrath

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# re: Improvements to Visual Studio Help

Something worth mentioning is that most people that have abandoned Visual Studio Help have abandoned it because it's quicker to start up IE, go to Google site 4,000 miles away, search, and load the found MSDN page on the Microsoft server 4,500 miles away than it is to do the same thing in Visual Studio Help with local data.  An acceptance criteria is Visual Studio Help must be at least as fast as using Google/msdn.microsoft.com.

Tuesday, January 29, 2008 3:16 PM by Peter Ritchie

# re: Improvements to Visual Studio Help

There'll also be more info about the improvements to the help system at the Heroes Happen Here launch events. VS experts will be on hand to answer any questions, and you'll also receive a free promotional version of Visual Studio 2008 for attending.

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Fred Reckling

Microsoft Grassroots Manager

www.microsoft.com/2008jointlaunch

Wednesday, January 30, 2008 3:11 PM by FredAtMicrosoft

# re: Improvements to Visual Studio Help

Well I'm glad there is some news and improvements going on. I'm instructor teaching VB2005 and now moving to VB2008 and since I never started with VB6, its hard to really know what is going on and where to go for real information. Also, can you do program Word and Excel in VB without VSTO?!

I'll stick you in my RSS reader in case there are any more updates! :)

Tuesday, April 22, 2008 11:12 AM by RickHenderson

# re: Improvements to Visual Studio Help

Rick,

Yes you can program Word and Excel in Visual Basic without VSTO, but VSTO makes it so much easier!

Kathleen

Wednesday, May 21, 2008 3:12 AM by kmcgrath

# Tech*Ed Developers Conference and Customer Feedback

I’m planning on attending Tech*Ed Developers in June to gather more feedback on Visual Studio documentation.

Wednesday, May 21, 2008 3:15 PM by Kathleen's Weblog
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