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What is the best solution for create and merge help for my web application ,
I want create HTML help for entire solution and help for each page,
Is there any module for this purpose?
You can use SandCastle. It is now maintained as part of SandCastle Help File Builder or SHFB.
http://shfb.codeplex.com/
SandCastle depends on Microsoft Help Workshop, which you have to download separately.
If you want to just create your own help system and not product API documentation, then just use the HTML Help Workshop on its own. It very simple, to use. Just create HTML pages for each help section and compile. Read the documentation.
HTML Help is also available as part of the Visual Studio SDK.
Reference:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/ms670169(v=vs.85).aspx
Download:
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=21138
Important:
As of March 2012 there is no HTML Help Workshop 1.4. VS 2010 doesn't use MS Help2 format so there is no Help2 compiler available for it. Starting with VS 2010, the new MS Help Viewer format is used.
Reference:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/vstudio/hh492077.aspx
MS Help Viewer SDK for Visual Studio:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd627473.aspx
Hope that helps.
I would suggest you to use SandCastle (SHFB), because you get best of all worlds. You can create compiled HLP2 files, Help Viewer Content and also a simple online HTML help.
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I am looking for a Visual Studio 2012 plugin / method that will allow me to access the .NET Framework 4.5 section of the MSDN library without an internet connection.
Any suggestions on how I can achieve this will be greatly appreciated.
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It's possible that during installation you chose to not cache the documentation locally and instead access it from online. To change this post installation so you can see it in the Help Viewer do the following
Help -> Add and Remove Help Content
Change the Installation Source to Disk
Hit "Update"
You should just be able to install the Help Viewer (if you haven't already got it).
In Visual Studio, under the "Help" menu, set the "Help Preference" to "Launch in Help Viewer" - it should download the relevant content for you if you haven't already got it.
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I was tasked to create a new Website - to make it similar to Facebook. ( were talking without games) so a standart backend with CMS for media sites.
I am familiar with VS'12, asp.net MVC3 & 4 C# or Vb.net , html5 and other languages and feel fit to start this.
What i wanted to know is if there is any Template, Backends, Nuget Packages, Open Source Applications out there for Visual Studio so I don't have to recreate the wheel?
I have looked where i know to look so a great answer would be a Template, Backend, Nuget Package and where you found it. Or possibly another method of getting started that i didn't list / am not aware of
Please do not come back at me with any PHP templates, for i would not be interested in it.
Thanks in advance.
Take a look here: MonoX
Free ASP.NET Content Management and Social Networking Platform
MonoX comes with everything you need to build advanced social networks.
MonoX includes very powerful content management functionality.
Mono Software provides MonoX blogs, tutorials and support forums.
This is something I'd recommend.
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I want to develop my blog website in ASP.NET. What could be the best way I can write my blog through?
I mean will Tiny MCE work for me, last time when I used it I faced terrible formatting issues. Because my blog will include code, different formatting, pictures etc. Please suggest me how to post blog?
I am using ASP.NET 3.5 and SQL Server 2005.
Why write your own from scratch? Take a look at Orchard CMS. It's an opensource .NET CMS being developed with help from Microsoft http://www.orchardproject.net/
Its fairly new, so there's still some features missing, but its really easy to get setup and since you're a .NET developer you can add your own functionality.
I agree with Jamiegs. Blogging is by and large a solved problem. Why not use an existing package? Most packages will include much more than anything you'd put together in your spare time not to mention that you'll benefit from all of the field testing too.
I settled on hosted Wordpress and just pointed my domain there. Hosted Wordpress is somewhat more limited than self-hosted (you can't install your own themes, etc...) but I've hardly found it restrictive. Their documentation around the various shortcodes for displaying source code or embedding maps is pretty complete.
I have been using Obout's html editor almost a year now without any problems. http://obout.com/editor_new/sample_full.aspx . Ajax Toolkit has free lite version of Obout's editor.
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Is there a library that I can use to convert VB.Net code into C#? There is http://codeconverter.sharpdevelop.net/ but i don't want to use it from a web service.
Open your assembly in .NET Reflector. Choose language C#. Copy/paste source code to Visual Studio. Try to compile.
There are plenty online services: Telerik provides one, here's one other and one of the best is on developer fusion. But these are all online.
I've had good experiences with Instant C# of Tangible Solutions, they provide good services for each bug you encounter after conversion. Other than that, many others are available through Google.
If you use Reflector, a few notes: it doesn't translate your source code, but the compiled code. This can make a huge difference in logic inside methods and above all, you loose all your (xml) comments and possibly your file structure (partial classes are not recognized, for instance). Reflector is virtually unusable when it comes to ASPX and inline code. But it is an excellent free tool in all other respects
Just download SharpDevelop 4.4, it contains the same converter for offline use.
Actually, the SharpDevelop converter is even better than the online converter as it can take a look at your whole project and your references.
The SharpDevelop source code repository also contains the full source code for that website. It's all open source.
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I'm looking for a free, syntax-highlighting, possibly autocompleting "Programmer's textbox" style control for use in a Visual Studio Windows Forms or WPF project. It should work with C# and self-defined languages, and the licence should permit its use in a closed, in-house development tool.
There are pay-for solutions available - something like http://www.syncfusion.com/products/user-interface-edition/windows-forms/Edit would work fine - but I am looking for something simpler, and would prefer not to pay for unnecessary functionality. Any ideas?
I've been using the SharpCode.TextEditor for a few cases, and it works quite well - including syntax highlighting and all.
Check out this Using ICSharpCode.TextEditor article on CodeProject for an intro.
To download it, go to the SharpDevelop web site and download the latest sources. One of the projects included is the Text editor, which you can easily isolate into its own assembly or sub project - you get all the source code, after all!
Scintilla is a powerful, open-source code editing component, and there is a .NET control available for it.