Help! Visual Studio help opens SQL Server Books Online
I’m experiencing another niggle with VS2005, on two separate development machines.
I have VS2005, SQL2005 and MSDN library installed. When I open help in VS2005, it launches SQL Books Online. I can’t find any way to persuade it to open up MSDN library instead, or to use this for the contextual help.
What am I missing?
UPDATE: The answer came via Scott Hanselman’s blog – turns out this is a known bug, resolved as "By Design". Hmmm.
UPDATE: I’ve downloaded the "MSDN Library for Visual Studio 2005" version. This seems to integrate well, and has a better search facility.
My mate Rich has exactly the same problem so you’re not alone…
A firm I used to work for had a subscription to one of those "books on the web" services – O’Reilly I think – which was very handy for looking stuff up. Best thing was we could use it from home too, so no need to install or update software on each machine.