I spend a lot of time offline, and while normally I'm in the middle of some book or magazine for work, I've recently been reading through the MSDN Library documentation of Visual Studio 2010 Application Lifecycle Management (aka TFS 2010).
Unfortunately, this documentation doesn't seem to be included on either the Vs2010 nor the VsAlm2010 installation media anymore, and I can't find any downloads for it...does it simply not exist except in online form?
I'd find it hard to believe that the only way to get at this documentation would be to hit a website for every request. What am I missing?
Wow - I'm a little surprised. Even on the MSDN Subscriber download site, the MSDN library downloads only go up to 2007.
But, you can tell the VS 2010 installation to install the content locally.
Go to "Help|Manage Help Settings" and under "Choose online or local help" select "I want to use local help".
You can also use the Help Manager to install online help updates locally. This might get the specific docs you're looking for (TFS ALM) pulled down - I'm not sure, but might be worth a try.
Related: Download Windows API reference (MSDN) for offline use
Install Zeal and add MSDN docset feed - this will give you rather a huge (it contains 41'181 method, for example) flat list of methods, constants, classes etc, not something as nicely laid out as MSDN site, but the search is lightning fast. Download size is ~3'400Mb;
or
Use VSHD to download offline help files for Visual Studio Help Viewer (applicable for VS 2012+) - this offers you the pleasure of leaving VS itself firewalled as it honestly should be. Download size varies.
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=34794
This download includes an ISO image file of the Visual Studio and .NET Framework documentation—overviews, how-to articles, API reference pages, sample code, and more—to help you in your development efforts.
Version:
See file name.
File Name:
VS2012Documentation.iso
VS2013Documentation.iso
Date Published:
6/10/2014
File Size:
2.7 GB
4.0 GB
If you have installed Visual Studio completely, you will find it locally. Goto Help > View Help or Press 'Ctrl + F1'
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I'm working on a Windows Application that has been around more than 20 years. It has a help file (.chm) that is built manually outside of the solution (i.e. not by Visual Studio or MSBuild) by compiling it in Microsoft HTML Help Workshop 1.4 from 1999. I would like to migrate this to the latest format such that it can be built as part of the release mode build process.
Is there a way to import the project (based on .hhp file) into a tool that builds the modern .mhsc-format help files? According to this Wikipedia article there was something called Microsoft Help 2 which was "the help engine used in Microsoft Visual Studio 2002/2003/2005/2008", which came after HTML Help Workshop and was succeeded by Microsoft Help Viewer, which was supported starting with Visual Studio 2010.
Preferably, there exits a way to migrate the .hhp/.chm project directly to Help Viewer, or maybe I have to download VS2010 and do it in two steps if indeed those two migrations are themselves supported. This stuff is so old it's hard to find relevant information on it. Thanks.
MS Help Viewer (.mshc) was difficult to manage at the time. It was made mainly for companies like Microsoft who code their help from a database.
You'll find some viewers and tools like MshcMigrate e.g. getting you from .CHM and .HxS -> .mshc.
There is no longer any need to purchase a mshcMigrate licence. The licence is free to use See also free key.
If you expect the users of your application to have internet access, another approach is to publish the help as HTML pages on a web server and link directly to those from your application.
Before migrating please note (for your existing workflow) the CHM Viewer is part of the Windows OS. A special viewer isn't required.
Around 2006 Microsoft used to give away ISO images of the MSDN libraries. Unfortunately they don't do this anymore. Now if you want to have local help, you have to download it from the Visual Studio environment. The problem is that I just installed Visual Studio 2012 on a home PC with no internet access.
Anyone knows how to download a copy of the documentation that I can manually install on my PC?
You can get the ISO for the Visual Studio 2012 documentation here
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=34794
It's 2.7GB large.
UPDATE:
Microsoft has added the ISO for Visual Studio 2013 documentation to the same link as above.
That ISO is 4GB large.
http://download.microsoft.com/download/8/9/2/8928585D-136D-4528-AECC-2F211902A8D7/VS2012Documentation.iso
The help documentation for vs 2012 ultimate is very much available at the link provided above.
I remember looking for this as well a while ago, and (although I may be incorrect) there is no reasonable way to do this. There is still the documentation available on CD but as far as I'm aware you must be an MSDN subscriber, but as you found out there are no longer the ISOs available for download - shame really as they were useful.
The only way to get it is to beg, steal or borrow (but really not the second option...) the CDs from somebody who has an MSDN subscription and is willing to let you use them. However, just for the record, I imagine this is against the terms of sale.
I am rebuilding my DEV image and I am no longer able to find neither of these two great plugins on the VS Extensions Gallery: Structure Adornment, AllMargins
Any ideas where did they go? Are there any replacements I can use? In the worst case, is it possible to extract Structure Adornment from my VS 2010 in my older image and install it into the new image?
Can't even imagine to go through thousands of lines of code without the nice vertical lines!
I uninstalled AllMargins after installing the Productivity Power Tools, but then realized there were some features of AllMargins that I liked better. This led me on a hunt to find it again. I had long since deleted my downloaded copy, and the official install has been removed from the VisualStudio Addons list.
However, I did find the source code still listed in Microsoft's archives, here:http://archive.msdn.microsoft.com/OverviewMargin/Release/ProjectReleases.aspx
The file download is named "OverviewMargin.zip" on the page, but the actual file it links to is "AllMargins.zip", which contains all the source code. It shouldn't be too hard to build and install it from there.
Also, if you plan on trying to build it from source, you have to have the VisualStudio 2010 SDK installed first.
Finally, there is this old blog post on how to configure AllMargins in the registry.
Edit:
I also updated this plugin to work with VisualStudio 2012, and renamed it to "OverviewMargin2012" : AllMargins / OverviewMargin extension updated to VisualStudio 2012
A bit late to the party but since my Google search for AllMargins resulted in this page I figured I would update. Someone updated AllMargins to work with VS2012.
AllMargins 2012 # Visual Studio Gallery.
It still works with VS 2010:
According to this blog post, AllMargins seems to have been superseded by Microsoft's own Productivity Power Tools. Commenters have pointed out that this is not the case.
However, the free version of CodeRush (CodeRush XPress) includes various navigation features including structural highlighting (which I think is equivalent to structure adornment). Note that, despite the name, this extension requires a full (not Express) version of Visual Studio.
I would like to install VSS 2005 so I can work on a project that is stored under it. Does anyone have any idea where the VSS 2005 client can be obtained? It does not appear to be on my VS2005 install disc (although that is for Team Suite). I cannot get any help from Google. I have an MSDN license (AA edition) but it doesn't seem to be there. This is a real product right?
Just to clarify preemptively based on some of the discussions I see on Google when I search for things like "VSS 2005," I am aware of the flaws in VSS and I still need to get it working; I am not interested in converting the project to Subversion; I am not able to transfer it to TFS; I am not able to upgrade the project to VS2008.
Thanks.
Two places, both from Microsoft:
Microsoft Store ($549.00)
MSDN Subscriber Downloads (Developer Tools > SourceSafe)
So, this is an old thread but occasionally still relevant. I'm adding an answer in case anyone comes across it in a google search.
If you have a copy of VSS 2005 installed on another machine but can't find the installation media, you can just copy C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Source Safe to your local machine. It will run just fine. Launch ssexp.exe and have at it.
You can get it from MSDN, I just looked it is there...see screenshot below
I can download SP6 but the bean counters say it has to be SP5. Does anyone have a link to a download for VS 6.0 SP5?
filewatcher.com has about 10 ftp servers listed with links to vs6sp5.exe.
As a comment below notes filewatcher.com is no longer. If anyone shows up actually looking for Service Pack 5 the link in Tony Day's answer is still active. Visual Basic 6 Service Pack 6 can be still be downloaded from Microsoft.
Try this:
External Source
I don't know if the Merge Modules will help you:
Visual Studio 6.0 Merge Modules
Otherwise, I would contact MSDN support, they should get back to you quickly, there may be a fault in why it is not available, or they may link you to the resource.