VS 6.0 Help Files

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Hi danger_boy_13,
It is very unlikely that your MSDN files are corrupt, more likely that the registry entry that identifies the MSDN installation to Visual Studio has been lost. While there are ways to recreate this entry, they are simply too complicated and too time consuming to be worth the effort.
Since MSDN ships on 3 CD''s, the simplest thing for you to do will be to find someone you can borrow the CD''s from. Or, work with the online version of the MSDN(see niyaw''s post above). If that is not possible, here are some ideas :
The first thing you should do is check out whether the help files are still on your computer or not. If you had an old version of MSDN installed, there should be a directory containing MB''s of CHM files. Newer MSDN has help files with the extension HxS. So, searching for these extensions should get you the directory.
You can open chm files by clicking on them, but for the HxS files, you need a viewer. You should be able to find the MSDN viewer dexplore.exe on your machine, or you can download FAR (http://helpware.net/FAR/index.html)

If you dont have the files installed on your computer, you can download the help for the various SDK''s from Microsofts Platform SDK site(http://www.microsoft.com/msdownload/platformsdk/sdkupdate/)

Hope this helps.

I can give you an answer for that but only when I will come home, since I don''t exactly remember how to do it. It have something to do with a dll and ocx control for Help System. Can you wait 6 more hours for the answer?


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