I have suffered trying to download documentation using Visual Studio's Help Library Manager. It just gets stuck after downloading 2 out of 5 books, and there is no option to pause and resume. Does anyone know where I can get full documentation to download and install offline?
you can download latest documentation at :
http://www.microsoft.com/en-in/download/details.aspx?id=34794
The answers above are not perfectly clear in how to "install" the help. I had to search a bit to find out how... Hope my answer is helpful to the newbie...
As mentioned by "Prakash GPz", the documentation is already present in the dvd for Visual Studio 2010. If you want to install this after starting use of Visual Studio 2010, you need to do the following steps:
Start Visual Studio 2010
Navigate to the "Help" menu
Click on "Manage Help Settings"
Since help might not be initialized for you, you will have to set the Help3 content location (just accept the default shown)
Select "Install content from disk"
Browse to the "ProductDocumentation" folder under the DVD drive
Select the HelpContentSetup.msha file
Click "Add" on each section of the help (or click "Add for ALL the sections) that you'd like to have locally available.
The installation will take a while, but after everything is done, you'll have local help available!
Installation of offline help has changed (again). For the latest versions of Visual Studio (up to 2017, at the moment), you need to include the Help Viewer during installation, or at it later with the "Modify" option in the Visual Studio Installer.
You can find the "Help Viewer" option under "Code tools", in the "Individual components" tab of the installer.
Once you've enabled the Help Viewer, you can find commands under the Visual Studio "Help" menu to control its behavior: "Add and Remove Help Content" allows you to select what documentation areas will be available offline, while the "Set Help Preference" menu allows you to specify whether to display offline help in a browser window or using the Help Viewer.
Note that changes to the Help Viewer need to be made in an elevated process (i.e. under an admin account). If you usually operate the computer using a non-admin account, you'll need to log in as an admin to update the offline help content, because it requires the running process to be the same user account as the actual logged in account.
You can install the documentation manually from the setup folder itsef. it is availablein 'ProductDocumentation' folder. you have to open a file with .msha extensiom
To install VS docs offline, you can use MSDN to USB, it works with any Visual Studio 2010|2015|2017|2019 IDE product.
Apparently, you've to download the docs 1st, then use this tool to "Backup MSDN" to your USB drive, later use the same tool to "Locate MSDN".
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I have just deinstalled and reinstalled Live Share in Visual Studio Community Edition 2022 to ensure that I have the lastest Version of this plugin installed.
When I now click on the Live-Share button in the top right corner of Visual Studio, the browser opens and says
"Visual Studio Live Share
We have retired this form of authentication. To start or join a Live Share session, please update Live Share extension to a newer version. Please see our documentation (https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/liveshare/) for more details.
Please refer to the documentation for more details."
Since I just installed the lastest version of Live Share and also installed the latest update of Visual Studio Community 2022, I don't know what to do here.
"At the same time, Visual Studio says: "Please complete sign-in in the browser window , then you should be signed in automatically. If not, you may enter the user code manually." After that, I have three buttons "Cancel", "Enter user code" or "Don't show again". Hitting "Enter user code" opens a window that says: "Please complete sign-in in the browser window, then copy the user code to start the collaboration session". Since the browser doesn't allow me to sign in, I don't know what to enter here.
I solved the problem. I had to go to Tools->Options->Live Share->Authentication and something at User Account.
I've just installed the VS 2015 and want to start creating Cordova application,
firstly when try to create app I get this error
"The template specified cannot be found. Please check that the full path is correct."
Does anyone got this and solved it ?
Click Start,
click Control Panel,
and then click Programs.
Click Programs and Features
and then select the Visual Studio Edition you installed.
Click or right click and select Uninstall/Change.
In the setup wizard, select modify and then click Next.
You will see a list of extras to install.
Find the mobile tools and cross development tools. I can't remember what they are all called but you will know what you want when you see them there's quite a few options for mobile development .
10.Then proceed to install the missing packages that you need.
It takes quite a while for them to install
You will then be able to start a project like you tried to before
As downloadable here but to be an online installtion process.
I'm looking to ways to download the package offline and/or the standalone .iso installation file - similarly to how we can do with Visual Studio 2012 updates here.
How can I do that?
ps.
A google search give me nowhere helpful at this time.
In brief the answer is this download link.
As I have met this question many times for Visual Studio versions, I note down here the full process to access them all from A to Z.
Google search for visual studio updates as here
Go for links from visualstudio.com as here
Search for updates on the page - pick up the search result Overview of Visual Studio 2013 updates‎ which lists all latest Visual Studio updates.
Choose the version to open the download page.
Look for Installation Instruction section, SCROLL DOWN below to the part that says Download the ISO image directly
Enjoy your .iso - it's done here.
Google search
Go down for .iso downloading
I found one way to do this via this article by storing the downloaded files. Though not a way to have iso file though.
VS 2013 Update 2 offline ISO - http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=393220
VS 2013 Update 3 offline ISO - http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=403041
For more current releases/updates (e.g. MSVC 2013 update 4 etc.) Microsoft recommends adding the '/layout' option when running the online installer from the command prompt:
<executable name> /layout
This command downloads all the packages for the installation, which makes it possible to install them offline thereafter.
https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=519391
that's it ! the update 5 direct Link .. it's 6GB ISO
I got this link for update 3 from Xinystudio:
Visual Studio 2013 update 3 offline iso
I know the OP is asking for update 2 but I thought this may present a better alternative.
If you have a number of people in your team that will need the udpate, it is a good idea to get someone to download the file to a local share and then share the location with yours team, as this file takes quite a while to download normally, and you are not able to use Visual Studio while the download has started.
One other way to do this is to go to the "Overview of Visual Studio 2013 updates" page (link below) and download the latest VS update.
"Overview of Visual Studio 2013 updates" - https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/2829760.
On this page click on "Download the latest Visual Studio 2013 update package now" and you will be redirected to the VS update page, where you will be able to download the file.
VS 2013 Update 5 direct link:
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/confirmation.aspx?id=48129
So if you have downloaded the file to C:\downloads, go to the command prompt and navigate to C:\downloads (or shift + right-click on the folder, then selecting "open command window here" .
Once you are in this folder, type the following command:
VS2013.5.exe /layout
This should bring up the Visual Studio Update window, and the download will then start.
From this link do the following:
I often need to look up documentation about classes/methods in the CLR. My usual process is just typing the method/class name into Google. But I would like to be able to right click any method within Visual Studio, and then click "Lookup on MSDN". Is there something already built in for this that I'm missing?
For example, I want to right click "Directory" in System.IO.Directory and then be taken here.
I am on Visual Studio 2010 Pro.
You can install the library locally - this is something that is offered during the Visual Studio installation process.
Re-run the installer and you should be presented with the option to install some of the articles locally (you can choose which items you want).
I installed Microsoft Visual Studio Express 2012 for Windows Desktop on my Windows 7 Ultimate(32bit) PC. I've registered it. My problem is about its Visual C++ projects. When I tried to created a VC++ project it says,
"Creating project '<project_name>'... project creation failed."
But I think Everything installed correctly and I can't find any wrong with this software. Please Help me what's the problem. I re-installed the program many times and run it with administrator, disabled UAC but nothing helped me
This seems to be a frequent problem related to UAC and administrative rights.
I tried all the above solutions, but the below mentioned steps helped me at last. Please try out that if none of the above solutions worked for you.
Go to Libraries\Documents folder
Right click on the folder IISExpress and click Properties
Go to Advanced options
Under Compress or Encrypt attributes, please uncheck the checkbox 'Encrypt
contents to secure data'
Click Ok and apply.
Now try to create a project, hope you won't get the error again.
Try installing this update KB2781514
This works for me