Some time ago Visual Studio started sending me to the Silverlight help pages when I pressed F1 on something in my WPF project.
This is very annoying because the Silverlight documentation is not updated and of course not the same as the WPF documentation because there are some differences.

Can someone please tell me how I can change this behaviour?

What I want is e.g. when I have the cursor placed on a Slider and presses F1 then I want to see the WPF documentation on the Slider class not the Silverlight docs.
Is this a PR thingy in order to promote Silverlight?

Hi @MEK_DK

If you have Silverlight 2 Tools for Visual Studio 2008 installed, there's a known issue that has a workaround documented here:

http://blogs.msdn.com/silverlight_sdk/archive/2008/11/22/silverlight-toolkit-and-f1-help.aspx

Sorry for the inconvenience caused.

Thanks
Mark

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Mark Wilson-Thomas - Program Team - WPF & SL Designer for Visual Studio - posts are provided 'as-is'

No I do not have the Silverlight 2 tools installed.
I checked the workaround anyway and my settings were as specified in the workaround.

But anyway I am giving up hope for VS2008 there are simply to many bugs, crashes,designer flawsand so on.
I hope that VS2010 will be released sometime soon (not the beta1 that has hit the street).

Thanks for the help anyway.

Hi @MEK_DK

Sorry that suggestion didn't work - I've passed on details of your issue to my colleagues on the Help team.

I'd be interested to hear about any crashes and bugs or designer flawsyou are still seeing in Visual Studio 2008, in particular if you already have the following Hotfixes and service packsinstalled:

Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1
KB958017 - solves a collection of late-breaking issues post Service Pack 1
KB963676 - CLR hotfix that solves a Visual Studio "hard crash" caused by the "Grant Set Exception"
KB963035 - solves WPF designethangs where the "Visual Studio is Busy" icon shows up in the tray and Visual Studio stops responding

Please feel free to respond here or send me email directly at mwthomas at microsoft dot com.

I can't make any announcements about the timeline for Visual Studio 2010; as you've already noted, Beta 1 has been out for some time. If you want to be notified when the next Beta or other release of Visual Studio 2010 is available, you can sign up by following the link at http://www.microsoft.com/visualstudio/en-us/products/2010/default.mspxto be notified by email. We will of course also be making announcements on this and other forums.

Thanks
Mark

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Mark Wilson-Thomas - Program Team - WPF & SL Designer for Visual Studio - posts are provided 'as-is'