What is "ms-help://"

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The .NET studio help system seems to use these odd URLs to locate (html) help
files to display. But on my system, I get "Server not found" web errors
whenever I access Help. What do I have to do to get my MSDN documentation
to work?!?

I'm dead in the water here, so any help is greatly appreciated.
Tom
 
My help always times out the first time I try to load a topic. Anybody
figured that out?

:(

-Eric
 
Well yes, I figured its a special URL that refers to the help files,
but how do I get my system to recognize it. I've uninstalled and
reinstalled the .NET Documentation a couple of times (and .NET studio
for that matter) but it still doesn't work. Anyone know what I need
to tweak on my system to get this to work?

Tom
 
go to a machine and check the HKCR (HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT) with regedit, you
should have the following.. if not, paste the following into a file and call
is something.reg and run it.

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\ms-help]
@="Microsoft Help ParseDisplayName"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\ms-help\CLSID]
@="{314111f7-a502-11d2-bbca-00c04f8ec294}"
 
Thanks for trying, but alas, these registry nodes were present.

..NET is a big animal so I cannot reasonably develop with the help system.
So any further help would be greatly appreciated.

Tom

news.microsoft.com said:
go to a machine and check the HKCR (HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT) with regedit, you
should have the following.. if not, paste the following into a file and call
is something.reg and run it.

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\ms-help]
@="Microsoft Help ParseDisplayName"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\ms-help\CLSID]
@="{314111f7-a502-11d2-bbca-00c04f8ec294}"






tcarvin said:
Well yes, I figured its a special URL that refers to the help files,
but how do I get my system to recognize it. I've uninstalled and
reinstalled the .NET Documentation a couple of times (and .NET studio
for that matter) but it still doesn't work. Anyone know what I need
to tweak on my system to get this to work?

Tom

"news.microsoft.com" <[email protected]> wrote in (html)
help
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reinstall MSDN :D

or use msdn.microsoft.com



tcarvin said:
Thanks for trying, but alas, these registry nodes were present.

.NET is a big animal so I cannot reasonably develop with the help system.
So any further help would be greatly appreciated.

Tom

"news.microsoft.com" <[email protected]> wrote in
message news: said:
go to a machine and check the HKCR (HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT) with regedit, you
should have the following.. if not, paste the following into a file and call
is something.reg and run it.

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\ms-help]
@="Microsoft Help ParseDisplayName"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\ms-help\CLSID]
@="{314111f7-a502-11d2-bbca-00c04f8ec294}"






tcarvin said:
Well yes, I figured its a special URL that refers to the help files,
but how do I get my system to recognize it. I've uninstalled and
reinstalled the .NET Documentation a couple of times (and .NET studio
for that matter) but it still doesn't work. Anyone know what I need
to tweak on my system to get this to work?

Tom

"news.microsoft.com" <[email protected]> wrote in
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message news: said:
its a URL handler

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The .NET studio help system seems to use these odd URLs to locate (html)
help
files to display. But on my system, I get "Server not found" web errors
whenever I access Help. What do I have to do to get my MSDN documentation
to work?!?

I'm dead in the water here, so any help is greatly appreciated.
Tom
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Been there, done that. *Sigh* At this point using msdn.microsoft.com
is my only choice but it's much more difficult to use. No nice index,
plus the "tree" in the Class Reference always says "Unavailable" which
makes it hard to navigate. And of course it's slow.

Grrr....

Tom


news.microsoft.com said:
reinstall MSDN :D

or use msdn.microsoft.com



tcarvin said:
Thanks for trying, but alas, these registry nodes were present.

.NET is a big animal so I cannot reasonably develop with the help system.
So any further help would be greatly appreciated.

Tom

"news.microsoft.com" <[email protected]> wrote in
message news: said:
go to a machine and check the HKCR (HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT) with regedit, you
should have the following.. if not, paste the following into a file and call
is something.reg and run it.

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\ms-help]
@="Microsoft Help ParseDisplayName"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\ms-help\CLSID]
@="{314111f7-a502-11d2-bbca-00c04f8ec294}"






Well yes, I figured its a special URL that refers to the help files,
but how do I get my system to recognize it. I've uninstalled and
reinstalled the .NET Documentation a couple of times (and .NET studio
for that matter) but it still doesn't work. Anyone know what I need
to tweak on my system to get this to work?

Tom

"news.microsoft.com" <[email protected]> wrote in
Click to expand...
message news: said:
its a URL handler

--


-----------
Got TidBits?
Get it here: www.networkip.net/tidbits
The .NET studio help system seems to use these odd URLs to locate
(html)
help
files to display. But on my system, I get "Server not found" web errors
whenever I access Help. What do I have to do to get my MSDN documentation
to work?!?

I'm dead in the water here, so any help is greatly appreciated.
Tom
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