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Context Help doesn't work in VS 2008

This looks like a shallow question, but this situation is getting annoying:

When I'm working in VS 2008 and I want context sensitive help, I highlight the term / keyword / window that I need help with and I press F1. It brings up the MSDN help window, but it always gives me a Page Not Found / Broken Link at the beginning and I have to go to the search page and search for the term I am looking for, which is annoying to start with and sometimes the term is ambiguous and I have to go hunting through dozens of different options before I get the help page I want.

Does anyone else have this problem or know how to fix it?

Thank!

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I switched to "Integrated Help View" instead of "External Help View" and now it works. I still don't know why the external viewer is not working and I will give an answer to the question who can help me set up the external viewer correctly ...

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Have you tried tinkering with your online help-environment settings? You can try "try online first then local" or "try local only, not online". I don't have this problem, so I can't test this as a solution, but this is something you can try.



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