Visual Basic help when in Visual Studio 2010

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Al in Dallas

I used to do a lot of development with VB4 and then a little with
VB6.
In either of those, if I placed my cursor in a keyword or a library
function and hit F1, VB Help opened to a reference page that was for
the keyword or function I had the cursor in. My current employer has
gone all out and gotten me Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate, but when I
hit
F1 in the code editor, I get a web browser popping open to the MSDN
Code and Text Editor help page. Is there any way to get context-
sensitive help for VB 2010 inside VS 2010?

I tried switching help to be local instead of "online," but all that
did was point the browser to a local file containing the same top-
level Code and Text Editor. Is context-sensitive help available in VS
2010?
 
I used to do a lot of development with VB4 and then a little with
VB6.
In either of those, if I placed my cursor in a keyword or a library
function and hit F1, VB Help opened to a reference page that was for
the keyword or function I had the cursor in. My current employer has
gone all out and gotten me Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate, but when I
hit
F1 in the code editor, I get a web browser popping open to the MSDN
Code and Text Editor help page. Is there any way to get context-
sensitive help for VB 2010 inside VS 2010?

I tried switching help to be local instead of "online," but all that
did was point the browser to a local file containing the same top-
level Code and Text Editor. Is context-sensitive help available in VS
2010?
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Turns out context-sensitive help started working as soon as I opened a
VB project.
 
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