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MSHelp3 preview now available

Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 is now available on MSDN Subscriber Downloads. No MSDN Subscription? VS Beta 2 will be available to the world in a few days time.

It contains the first preview of MS Help 3  (The VS 2010 help system).

The beta software is currently labeled MS Help 3, however the official name is “MS Help Viewer 1.0″. Strange name? It’s the same type of thinking when they named “Document Explorer” for VS 2002/2003/2005/2008.

Our free Help Migration Utility is here (download link at bottom of page)

More info on MS Help Viewer 1.0

What can I see?

  • In VS 2010 Beta 2, press F1 to checkout the help.
  • Use the migration utility to convert a HxS file to Help3 file. Then make a Installation Manifest file (.msha). Then try installing your help using the manifest.

Let the fun begins.

Rob

This entry was posted on Tuesday, October 20th, 2009 at 3:11 am and is filed under MS Help 3.x. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

2 Responses to “MSHelp3 preview now available”

  1. Geoff Knoll says:
    October 22, 2009 at 4:57 am

    Rob,
    I had a question on the Help Migration utility. Can the utility be called command-line to convert Help2 files, so that this could be done during a build? I would have to support Help2, and MS Help Viewer 1.0, so i was hoping i could call your utility during the build command-lin to take the Help2 file built and convert it.

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  2. Rob says:
    October 22, 2009 at 12:13 pm

    Yes mshcMigrate build 16 & 17 have command line params so you can run in batch mode. Run the app with a /? augment to see the options. When you install mshcMigrate there is an example settings.ini file installed that you can pass in to control the options.

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