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Workaround for Help Issue in Community Technology Preview May 2004

Symptom:

When using Help external (dexplore.exe) to Visual Studio 2005 Team System Community Technology Preview May 2004, the Help system appears to be stuck (you see the “Downloading...“ message in the status bar, the progress bar barely moves and the Internet Explorer icon continues to spin).

Workaround:

In "C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\help whidbey\dexplore.exe.config" change the following lines:

    <supportedRuntime version="v2.0.40507" safemode="true"/>
    <requiredRuntime version="v2.0.40507" safemode="true"/>

to:

    <supportedRuntime version="v2.0.40426" safemode="true"/>
    <requiredRuntime version="v2.0.40426" safemode="true"/>

Published Thursday, May 27, 2004 6:02 PM by Rob Caron
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Thursday, May 27, 2004 9:26 PM by Michael Swanson's Blog

# Workaround for Help Issue in Community Technical Preview May 2004

Thursday, May 27, 2004 9:26 PM by Michael Swanson's Blog

# Workaround for Help Issue in Community Technology Preview May 2004

Thursday, May 27, 2004 9:49 PM by Kevin Dente's RantLog

# Whidbey May CTP first experiences

Friday, May 28, 2004 1:07 PM by Chris Garty's Weblog

# re: VS 2005 May CTP Installation Gremlins

Friday, May 28, 2004 2:44 PM by ISerializable

# Workaround for Help Issue in Community Technology Preview May 2004

Saturday, May 29, 2004 11:42 PM by Sumeet

# Fixing Unable to Install MSDN help - wrong framework version error

On my machine (Windows 2003 Enterprise Server Trial), the MSDN Help just does not install with error that .Net Framework needs updating.

The update fails with error "another version of this is already installed"

I finally figured out that this is beacuse the Help is actually for the Beta 1 and not the CTP2 and the setup.ini file points to a later version of the framework than is installed by the Visual Studio Setup.

The FIX:

EDIT the "VisualStudio\MSDN\setup.ini" file (will have to do in the ISO before burning to DVD using WinRar or else extract iso to hard disk" and replace the
version=v2.0.40507
with
version=v2.0.40426

Setup should now run fine as also context sensitive help.

Sumeet
Monday, May 31, 2004 3:47 PM by .NET Brain Droppings

# Are you having problems with help in the Whidbey Community Tech preview May edition?

Monday, May 31, 2004 4:43 PM by Sreedhar Koganti's Blog

# Workaround for Help problem in VS2005(CTPMay2004) Via Rob Caron

Monday, May 31, 2004 4:44 PM by Sreedhar Koganti's Blog

# Workaround for Help problem in VS2005(CTPMay2004) Via Rob Caron

Tuesday, June 01, 2004 7:39 PM by Scott's WebLog

# Fix for Help not working in May 2004 Community Technology Preview

Wednesday, June 02, 2004 10:41 AM by Mark Michaelis' Weblog

# Viewing MSDN help externally from Visual Studio May 2005 Tech. Preview

VS.NET external help didn't work for me until Michael Stokesbary recommended
Thursday, June 03, 2004 3:36 AM by TrackBack

# Installing VS.NET CTP May 2005

Thursday, June 03, 2004 6:36 AM by ISlavoF.Save()

# Whidbey May CTP - prv

Thursday, June 03, 2004 6:39 AM by ISlavoF.Save()

# Whidbey May CTP - prv

Friday, June 04, 2004 2:03 AM by Sean's Blog

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Wednesday, June 09, 2004 4:13 AM by Vibro.NET

# MAY VS2005 (whidbey) MSDN

Monday, July 12, 2004 8:50 AM by Rod Stephens

# Beta 1 Help

Same issue but in Beta 1 it looks like you need to change this to 40607.

Rod
Monday, July 12, 2004 11:47 AM by Rob Caron

# re: Workaround for Help Issue in Community Technology Preview May 2004

The same issue? Did you try to install Beta 1 over the May CTP?
Tuesday, July 13, 2004 4:39 PM by Rob Caron

# re: Workaround for Help Issue in Community Technology Preview May 2004

We weren't able to reproduce this problem when installing on a clean machine. Since there's no guarantee for what state your machine is in after uninstalling the CTP, I think you'll encounter problems installing Beta 1 afterwards.
Sunday, November 21, 2004 5:38 AM by TrackBack

# Installing VS.NET CTP May 2005

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