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# Posted on: 30-Jan-2006 23:28:39   

Is there any way to hide VB samples in chm file?

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# Posted on: 31-Jan-2006 02:48:35   

There's not currently a way to do this, so it would need to be an enhacement.

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# Posted on: 31-Jan-2006 10:41:15   

why would a C# mvp hide vb.net examples? wink stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye

I'll think about it. It would require some amount of javascript and that's always a pleasure to work with wink

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# Posted on: 31-Jan-2006 15:35:48   

Otis wrote:

why would a C# mvp hide vb.net examples? wink stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye

Lol. I have always this problem when I have a speaking engagement (why I speak in C# that is).

Otis wrote:

I'll think about it. It would require some amount of javascript and that's always a pleasure to work with wink

Perhaps you might use a better tool that supports new help formats, too? (no idea)

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# Posted on: 31-Jan-2006 17:15:28   

mihies wrote:

Otis wrote:

I'll think about it. It would require some amount of javascript and that's always a pleasure to work with wink

Perhaps you might use a better tool that supports new help formats, too? (no idea)

It's 1.1MB of html, hand written (353 A4 pages wink ), which I could migrate to an integrated help file for VS.NET. The point is that integrated help changed formats with every vs.net version. So I have to create 3 versions (as we support 2002-2005). That will increase the download size but that's not all. The main point against integrated help in vs.net is that it is a cumbersome install procedure and make vs.net help slower. The more integrated help files you install, the longer it takes to bring up the index each time you open vs.net. This is also the reason why our very large reference manual isn't an integrated help file.

THe code blocks are now just <pre> tags, so I could globally search/replace them with some sort of div thingy. Though it will be a lot of work I think to get it completely right, as of course you want to specify that filter just once.

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