The Help Guy
Paul O'Rear's blog for all things Help technology related.
Today I have a guest post from my good friend and co-worker in the Help Viewer team, Malcolm...
Date: 04/10/2012
Hook Up Visual Studio 11 Developer Preview and Visual Studio Express for Windows Developer Preview to Visual Studio 11 Developer Preview content on MSDN
I hope you’ve been having fun exploring the new features of both Visual Studio 11 Developer...
Date: 09/21/2011
I've been rather quiet lately - but for good reason! (We've been really busy!) Hopefully, by now,...
Date: 09/15/2011
Please check out my boss Jeff Braaten's blog regarding our new client help viewer now shipping with...
Date: 12/10/2010
I’m excited to announce that we have just posted a preview video of Help Viewer 1.1, which...
Date: 10/27/2010
Periodically, questions come to Microsoft via a variety of avenues regarding our current guidance on...
Date: 10/26/2010
Thanks for everyone who helped us identify the issue with our original download. We have rebuilt and...
Date: 09/01/2010
It's been a long time coming, but we have finally released the Help Viewer 1.0 SDK. It can be...
Date: 08/06/2010
Since starting this blog, I've had a few requests to post links to various software products and...
Date: 08/05/2010
This just in from Tim Green @ EC Software, GmbH: Just saw your posts and the announcements about the...
Date: 07/01/2010
(It appears during forum migration this post got deleted from my blog - so re-posting...) I'm glad...
Date: 07/01/2010
I'm pleased to announce that we have posted a release of Sandcastle that now supports the MSHC Help...
Date: 06/24/2010
If you've worked for any time at all with the .NET Framework and have looked up documentation in the...
Date: 06/22/2010
A question that we've begun to see come up from folk that have generally low-bandwidth is whether...
Date: 04/29/2010
Clever workaround for getting dynamically inserted javascript or stylesheets to work in Help Viewer 1.0
Working with our Visual Studio 2010 (and earlier!) partners, I'm frequently impressed with the...
Date: 02/23/2010
One of the side benefits of the F1 feature I wrote about the other day is that vendors can...
Date: 02/16/2010
If you haven't seen the announcement about the Visual Studio 2010 RC release - check out this page....
Date: 02/09/2010
I added a few more items to the Known Issues page. Also, a new page added: Calling Help Viewer 1.0...
Date: 02/02/2010
The Visual Studio interface for launching Help using an F keyword (context sensitive help keyword)...
Date: 02/02/2010
As we've been ramping up the new the Help Viewer and its associated Help file format (MSHC), we've...
Date: 01/26/2010
Help file content and web content have historically been significant attack vectors that hackers and...
Date: 01/22/2010
(see highlighted section below for the specifics of creating a Test certificate) · Generate a .cab...
Date: 01/21/2010
There's been a fair amount of discussion both in private emails and on the MSHelp3 Yahoo! group...
Date: 01/21/2010
There are a handful of "known issues" with Help Viewer 1.0 that we will be shipping with at VS 2010...
Date: 01/20/2010
· No ‘.’s allowed in .mshc/.cab file names; i.e. abc.mshc = good, abc.123.mshc = bad · No character...
Date: 01/20/2010
Please see my page posted here. As I publish new pages, they will all be easily accessed via the...
Date: 01/20/2010
Confirming with the VS Platform team, I have the following information. The following methods are...
Date: 01/20/2010
Hello and welcome to “The Help Guy” blog! Why “The Help Guy?” I was aiming for just “Help Guy”, but...
Date: 01/18/2010