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Fix for Help not working in May 2004 Community Technology Preview

After installing the May Community Technology Preview of Visual Studio 2005, you will quickly discover that the Help system does not work. You'll see a message that says, “Downloading...” Rob Caron has posted a message on his Blog which explains Read More...
Posted Tuesday, June 01, 2004 4:37 PM by Scott Swanson | 3 Comments
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TechEd 2004 in San Diego

I arrived in San Diego this afternoon for TechEd 2004. Today was the conference start. The main conference gets under way tomorrow; Monday May 24th and runs until Friday May 28. Many members of the Visual Studio Core Help and Community teams are here Read More...
Posted Monday, May 24, 2004 12:09 AM by Scott Swanson | 2 Comments
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How much Help content should Visual Studio install by default?

In Visual Studio Whidbey, the Help system will have the ability to perform a “scoped” install. Scoped install only installs content that is optimized for particular user types; Visual Basic developer, VC++ Developer, etc. Scoped install has Read More...
Posted Wednesday, May 05, 2004 1:46 PM by Scott Swanson | 21 Comments
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Learn more about the Visual Studio 2005 (a.k.a Whidbey) Help System

Want to learn more about the new Help system in Visual Studio 2005? Check out my interviews with Robert Scoble (Scobleizer) on the cool new web site Channel9 . New segments of the interview will be appearing over the coming weeks. So far two segments Read More...
Posted Thursday, April 22, 2004 11:42 AM by Scott Swanson | 0 Comments
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Whats with the weird keyboard navigation in the Help Index and Table of Contents tool windows?

Do you ever navigate the Index or Table of contents using the keyboard with just a little mouse clicking? If so, you might have noticed that the only way to keep the selection focus on an item in the Index or TOC is to first give focus to the tool window. Read More...
Posted Wednesday, April 21, 2004 5:39 PM by Scott Swanson | 4 Comments
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How to fix Help Search in the March Community Technology Preview

People who attended VSLive and the Mobile Devices Conference in San Francisco two weeks ago received a copy of the Visual Studio 2005 (Whidbey) March Community Technology Preview. This Alpha release shipped with a configuration error that keeps local Read More...
Posted Monday, April 12, 2004 11:26 AM by Scott Swanson | 1 Comments
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Have you tried the new help system in Whidbey?

It's been about 2 weeks now since we gave out the March Community Tech Preview of Visual Studio 2005 (a.k.a Whidbey) release at VS Live and the Mobile Devices Conferences in San Francisco. How many people have installed the bits and tried the new Whidbey Read More...
Posted Sunday, April 11, 2004 11:33 PM by Scott Swanson | 5 Comments
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Results of the screen resolution survey

Wow, last week was a busy week! I spent the beginning of the week attending much of the annual MVP Summit. And Thursday and Friday catching up from the beginning of the week. It was great to talk to so many MVPs from around the world and get their feedback Read More...
Posted Sunday, April 11, 2004 11:08 PM by Scott Swanson | 25 Comments
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The pictures are fixed...

Thanks to Josh Ledgard, expert blogger, the pictures in my Help Toolbar post are now working properly. You no longer have to join the MSN community group where the pictures are located. Please take a look at the full screenshot of Whidbey Help and send Read More...
Posted Wednesday, March 31, 2004 9:51 AM by Scott Swanson | 4 Comments
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How do I view the Help pictures?

In order to make the screenshots available on the web, I created an MSN Community group and placed the images there. Thinking that by making the group open, everyone could access the images, I linked them to my blog page. It turns out I was wrong. Even Read More...
Posted Tuesday, March 30, 2004 5:32 PM by Scott Swanson | 2 Comments
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What should the Help toolbar look like?

I'm in the process of designing, or should I say redesigning, the Help toolbar for Whidbey. In previous versions of Visual Studio, the Web toolbar was the Help toolbar. In Whidbey, we have a redesigned Help system with lots of new functionality. I think Read More...
Posted Tuesday, March 30, 2004 4:39 PM by Scott Swanson | 28 Comments
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Screen Resolution?

Over the past few days, several people on the VS Core team have gotten into a discussion regarding typical screen resolutions that people use when running Visual Studio. Its been about 18 months since the last formal customer survey was done. In that Read More...
Posted Tuesday, March 30, 2004 3:07 PM by Scott Swanson | 162 Comments
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Welcome to my Blog

Hello, my name is Scott Swanson. I'm the Program Manager on the Visual Studio Core team who owns the Help experience. I work with Tim Sullivan , Saurabh Jain , Josh Ledgard and many other developers, writers and QA people to create the Visual Studio Help Read More...
Posted Thursday, March 18, 2004 2:24 PM by Scott Swanson | 4 Comments
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