 | Visual Studio 2012 Integrated Help ExtensionThe Visual Studio 2012 Integrated Help Viewer Extension integrates the Help Experience directly into the IDE, providing the ability to view and navigate help topics without ever leaving your Development Environment |
Visual Studio 2012 Integrated Help Extension This extension overrides the default Help Provider in VisualStudio and causes F1 Help Requests to be shown within the IDE Browser. It willcheck to see if you have set your Help Preference to Online or Offline and willuse that setting when displaying content in the Browser. If you are online,topics from the MSDN Library will be shown, and if you have chosen Offline, then your locale Help Catalogwill be used. It also provides a Help Explorer Window, a common VisualStudio Window that provides TOC, Search, and Index functionality that should befamiliar to most users. The Help Explorer utilizes your local Help Catalog andany content that you have installed. To manage your local Help Documentationclick here. You can access the Help Explorer from a new Command on theHelp Menu:
You can then use the Explorer to navigate Help Topics directly in the IDE:
Another very nice feature here is that you can utilize existing Visual Studio dock-ability functionality and put your Code right by your Help!
The Explorer also follows the VS Theme you have selected.
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