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Accessing a MSDN collection through the network with visual studio .NET

Hello experts,

I have installed the MSDN help collection on a windows 2000 server machine. Now I want to be able to access it's contents from other computers in the local area network, which have visual studio (either 6.0 or .NET) installed on them, mostly NT4 workstations. I also want the F1 (and all other help related commands in visual studio) to activate this library.

How can this be done? Thanks.

Hyper8

On the server share the CD drive or the DVD volume. Then map a drive to it from the workstations. Then on the workstations navigate to the msdn and do a minimal install to the workstation. Now, whenever you hit search in VB or whatever you are using it will bring it up from the server.
Mapping the drive is optional I believe.

Hope this helps.

Hyper8

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managair

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jbunting,

i'd rather install only one collection, but this depends: can i activate the older collection from a .NET environment?

jbunting

I'm not positive (haven't tried it), but I don't think you can use the older one. They changed the HTML Help as of the January disc and the files & formats are different. I just installed the help that came with VS.Net for the time being since I'm still mainly working with 6.0.