Integrated Help

During the installation of Visual Studio 2010, I suggested that you install the full MSDN documentation locally using the Manage Help Settings utility. Although this is not a requirement, it’s convenient to have a wealth of documentation about the tools, framework libraries, and languages at your side at all times.

Although you can launch the MSDN library directly from the Start menu by clicking the Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Documentation entry, more regularly you’ll invoke it through the Help menu in Visual Studio or by means of the context-sensitive integrated help functionality. Places where help is readily available from the context (by pressing F1) include the Error List (to get information on compiler errors and warnings) ...

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