Q. I have MSDN and/or Visual Studio documentation present, but when I install the Dundas component, I get an error that says "The installer has determined that no Microsoft Help Viewer is present. The documentation will not be installed."
A. In order to run the stand-alone documentation, the installer requires the Microsoft Help viewer (Microsoft Document Explorer) to be present in its default location. If this location is different on your machine, you will need to manually install the documentation. This is a simple process, outlined below:
- Register the documentation namespace by double-clicking on the Register.bat file, located in the Docs sub-folder of the Dundas component's installed directory.
Right-click on your MSDN Library or Microsoft Visual Studio Documentation shortcut and select Properties (Figure 1).
This should bring up a window with a Target that contains a path corresponding to where the dexplore.exe executable file is located on your machine (Figure 2). Copy this entire target path text.
- Add or modify a shortcut named "Documentation" in the appropriate Dundas sub-folder of the Start Menu and paste the target path you copied earlier.
- Return to the Docs subfolder of our installation, and open the file called VS_cmd.ini. Near the top you will find the tag <nsDesc>, and after this a namespace such as Dundas.Charting.WebControlVS2005.Documentation. Copy this namespace, and paste it after the text "ms-help://" in your shortcut.
Your shortcut's target path will look something like this, but can vary depending on which product and version you have installed:
"D:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Help 8\dexplore.exe" /helpcol ms-help://Dundas.Charting.WebControlVS2005.Documentation /LaunchNamedURLTopic DefaultPage /usehelpsettings VisualStudio.8.0
If you still cannot access the documentation, please contact support@dundas.com for assistance. You will also find complete documentation online for most of our products on this site by using the navigation bar on the left. |