Help! Visual Studio help opens SQL Server Books Online

Wednesday, 02 November 2005 at 10:54 - Blog

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.

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#1 avatar John C on 02 Nov 2005 at 12:31

My mate Rich has exactly the same problem so you're not alone...

#2 avatar Jeremy Pearson on 23 Nov 2005 at 00:20

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.

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