Workaround for Help Issue in Community Technology Preview May 2004

Workaround for Help Issue in Community Technical Preview May 2004

Michael Swanson's Blog — Fri, 28 May 2004 04:26:00 GMT

Workaround for Help Issue in Community Technology Preview May 2004

Michael Swanson's Blog — Fri, 28 May 2004 04:26:00 GMT

Whidbey May CTP first experiences

Kevin Dente's RantLog — Fri, 28 May 2004 04:49:00 GMT

re: VS 2005 May CTP Installation Gremlins

Chris Garty's Weblog — Fri, 28 May 2004 20:07:00 GMT

Workaround for Help Issue in Community Technology Preview May 2004

ISerializable — Fri, 28 May 2004 21:44:00 GMT

Fixing Unable to Install MSDN help - wrong framework version error

Sumeet — Sun, 30 May 2004 06:42:00 GMT

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

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

.NET Brain Droppings — Mon, 31 May 2004 22:47:00 GMT

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

Sreedhar Koganti's Blog — Mon, 31 May 2004 23:43:00 GMT

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

Sreedhar Koganti's Blog — Mon, 31 May 2004 23:44:00 GMT

Fix for Help not working in May 2004 Community Technology Preview

Scott's WebLog — Wed, 02 Jun 2004 02:39:00 GMT

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

Mark Michaelis' Weblog — Wed, 02 Jun 2004 17:41:00 GMT

VS.NET external help didn't work for me until Michael Stokesbary recommended

Installing VS.NET CTP May 2005

TrackBack — Thu, 03 Jun 2004 10:36:00 GMT

Whidbey May CTP - prv

ISlavoF.Save() — Thu, 03 Jun 2004 13:36:00 GMT

Whidbey May CTP - prv

ISlavoF.Save() — Thu, 03 Jun 2004 13:39:00 GMT

Bits and Pieces

Sean's Blog — Fri, 04 Jun 2004 09:03:00 GMT

Bits and Pieces

Sean's Blog — Sat, 05 Jun 2004 05:13:00 GMT

MAY VS2005 (whidbey) MSDN

Vibro.NET — Wed, 09 Jun 2004 11:13:00 GMT

Beta 1 Help

Rod Stephens — Mon, 12 Jul 2004 15:50:00 GMT

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

Rod

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

Rob Caron — Mon, 12 Jul 2004 18:47:00 GMT

The same issue? Did you try to install Beta 1 over the May CTP?

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

Rob Caron — Tue, 13 Jul 2004 23:39:00 GMT

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.

Installing VS.NET CTP May 2005

TrackBack — Sun, 21 Nov 2004 13:38:00 GMT