MSHELPL:link not working

[Gerald Vogt]

I have VS .NET 2003 and MSDN Oct 03 on Win XP Prof. and recently
installed the current MS Platform SDK. Since then many links in the
combinded VS help do not work anymore: all links with <MSHELP:link>
tags don't work anymore! I tried uninstalling the platform sdk and the
repair function of the MSDN library. Nothing changes. I was close to do
an complete re-install of VS and MSDN when I noticed that actually
everything is working when I am logged in as Administrator. So the
problem only occurs as long as I am logged in as user. I guess some
user registry settings for the mshelp binding have been damaged in the
installation of the platform sdk.

Is there any fix for that?

Gerald

[Gerald Vogt]

I have VS .NET 2003 and MSDN Oct 03 on Win XP Prof. and recently
installed the current MS Platform SDK. Since then many links in the
combinded VS help do not work anymore: all links with <MSHELP:link>
tags don't work anymore! I tried uninstalling the platform sdk and the
repair function of the MSDN library. Nothing changes. I was close to do
an complete re-install of VS and MSDN when I noticed that actually
everything is working when I am logged in as Administrator. So the
problem only occurs as long as I am logged in as user. I guess some
user registry settings for the mshelp binding have been damaged in the
installation of the platform sdk.

Is there any fix for that?

Gerald

[John Babcock]

I encounter the same problem and the instructions found at the folloing site fixed it

http://www.dotnet247.com/247reference/msgs/43/215154.asp

Here's the fix

Run regedit.exe or your favorite registry editor and find the following

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHIN
SOFTWAR
Microsof
VisualStudi
7.
Hel
0x040
{32AF11EA-A804-47bd-BDAE-31653BD0CDD9

Note that if you are using a language other than English-US, the hexadecimal value after "Help" will be different than shown above

Select the long value enclosed in the curly braces and on the right side look at the value named "VS_Docs"

The data associated with that value should be "7.1". If it says "No
supported", change that to "7.1"

Close the registry editor and restart Visual Studio

Do NOT change the "VS_Docs" data value for any other elements that you fin
in that part of the registry.

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Let me know if your problem is resolved



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[Gerald Vogt]

Hi John,

Post by John Babcock
I encounter the same problem and the instructions found at the

folloing site fixed it.

Post by John Babcock
http://www.dotnet247.com/247reference/msgs/43/215154.aspx

I knew that one already and it is all correct in my registry. So I
still have the problem. (Actually, it can't be a HKLM Registry setting
because it is working when logged in as Administrator and not working
when logged in as Power User. It must be a per-user setting...)

Gerald

[Gerald Vogt]

I finally found a solution for me: I noticed that the "\Documents and
Settings\Administrator\Local Settings\Applicationdata\Microsoft Help"
directory was empty while it contained a couple of files for my user
login. I moved all the files to trash and now it's working again.

Gerald

Post by Gerald Vogt
I have VS .NET 2003 and MSDN Oct 03 on Win XP Prof. and recently
installed the current MS Platform SDK. Since then many links in the
combinded VS help do not work anymore: all links with <MSHELP:link>
tags don't work anymore! I tried uninstalling the platform sdk and the
repair function of the MSDN library. Nothing changes. I was close to do
an complete re-install of VS and MSDN when I noticed that actually
everything is working when I am logged in as Administrator. So the
problem only occurs as long as I am logged in as user. I guess some
user registry settings for the mshelp binding have been damaged in the
installation of the platform sdk.