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F1 in VB.NET

Rachel

30 December 2008 12:20

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When F1 is accessed over a method or property in VB.NET, the help topic is not displayed.

But, it works just fine in C#.

Any idea why that happens? Any suggestions on how to resolve that situation?

I would appreciate some advice.

Thanks!

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  Rachel 16 January 2009 14:50

  This issue seems to occur only in VB.NET in Vista.

  Any suggestions?
  

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  Permanently deleted user 19 January 2009 05:16

  I beleive that we are dealing with this issue with you directly by email, but I thought I would post our findings here as it may be useful for other developers.

  It seems that there is an MSDN issue when you press F1 for help in VB.NET with the Visual Studio help settings set to "Search online first, then local". MSDN returns a non-specific match (e.g. on the Dim keyword) which means that the local help never gets checked. The best resolution for this problem appears to be to change the Visual Studio help settings to "Search local first, then online". So long as you don't have an old MSDN version installed locally, this should always yield the same result anyway.

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  Rachel 02 August 2010 11:28

   Does the MSDN issue regarding F1 in VB.Net still hold?

  Thanks!