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Asked: 2026-05-11T18:51:45+00:00

This seems like a petty question, but this situation is starting to get annoying:

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This seems like a petty question, but this situation is starting to get annoying:

When I’m working in VS 2008 and I want to get context-sensitive help, I highlight the term/keyword/window that I want help on, and I push F1. It brings up the MSDN help window, but it always gives me a “Page not Found”/broken link on the start, and I have to go to the search page and search on the term that I’m looking for, which is annoying for starters, and sometimes the term is ambiguous and I have to go hunting through tens of different options before I get the right help page.

Anyone else have this problem, or know how to fix it?

Thanks!

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    Solution (sort of…)

    I switched to using the “Integrated Help Viewer” instead of the “External Help Viewer”, and now it works. I still don’t know why the external viewer doesn’t work, and I’ll give answer credit to whoever can help me set up the external viewer properly…

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