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Help Viewer Power Tool (Beta)

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Ryan Linton - MSFT (Microsoft)
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May 19, 2010
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by crusader2k | July 15 2010

very nice.

by Robert MacLean | July 13 2010

Fantastic tool! It should've shipped this way. A few minor issues need to addressed but it is great none the less.

by Rob Chandler [Help MVP] | July 12 2010

Sorry but I had nothing but trouble with this app. Did not work properly in most of my browser. It stopped other viewers such as H3Viewer from rendering correctly. I give it one star because when I uninstalled, H3Viewer rendered content again. I guess it is marked as "Beta" for a reason. :-)

by Eric in NL | May 07 2010

While this is a step in the right direction, it's still missing filtering and the index performance is pretty poor. It also feels wrong to have to install a power tool to get what should be standard functionality, and at that the "power tool" is a poor substitute for the previous functionality.

by JasonShortPhD | May 06 2010

I personally still prefer the H3HelpViewer ( http://mshcmigrate.helpmvp.com/viewer ). It just seems to work better.

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  • Does this support self branded?
    3 Posts | Last Post: July 13, 2010
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    • Written May 07, 2010
      Does this viewer support selfbranded=true content? If not, then that is a serious problem as all of the third party content I've come across is self branded and will not display at all in this viewer.
    • Written May 11, 2010
      1. It badly needs tabbed browsing support, at least on the level the old VS2008 help viewer had.

      2. Any chance to enable TextOptions.TextFormattingMode="Display" for standalone viewer (so that fonts are less blurry)? Or is it also a Silverlight (rather than WPF) app?
    • Written July 13, 2010
      @Richard it appear to support it as CodeRush is in their after you install that.

      @Pavel
      1 - Agreed, would love to right click on a topic and have it in a seperate tab.
      2 - It is a Silverlight app, not sure if that is the cause but the font is blurry.

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