Visual Basic, help files not working

help files not working

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Jack Fo #1 / 3	help files not working Ever since an attempt to install some commercial utility software that went awry my VB help files have been unusable. (I won't mention the name, non-MS, the vendor claims they did hundreds of beta installs and never heard of my problem.) Whenever I attempt to access a help topic from the IDE I get "Attempting to use an invalid compiled help (.chm) file." The .chm files have the correct icon associated with them in Windows Explorer, and when I attempt to access them directly from there I get "Cannot open the file: Studio\MSDN\2000JUL\1033\AUTOMAT.CHM" (when attempting automat.chm, for instance). I did full reinstalls of VS three times and it still didn't help. I reapplied the MSDN, etc. I even uninstalled VS and MSDN before reinstalling. I am running VS6 SP5 on NT 4.0 SP4. VS help is the only thing on my entire system that does not work. I really do not want to have to rebuild everything from scratch (i.e. reinstall NT 4.0). I assume something is tweaked in the registry. *** I have lived without VB help files for a couple of months, but I really need them now. I can' figure out why "IF dblOperand1 < dblOperand2 THEN ..." evaluates as true when dblOperand1 = -1.02E-03 and dblOperand2 = -2.12E-03.
Mon, 24 Nov 2003 01:24:54 GMT

schunkenstei #2 / 3	help files not working My shot-in-the-dark on the help file thing is that the bozo app you installed replaced the file hh.exe. Try going to this url... http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/tools/htmlhelp/wkshp/download.htm and download/run the "Hhupd.exe" file Which, BTW, contrary to documentation, DOES NOT ship on any VS cd-rom. As for your compare error...I'm a tad lost... On my machine, the stament... ? (-1.02E-03) < (-2.12E-03) returns false...so..."WTF" is all I can say.... Quote: > Ever since an attempt to install some commercial utility software that went > awry my VB help files have been unusable. (I won't mention the name, non-MS, > the vendor claims they did hundreds of beta installs and never heard of my > problem.) Whenever I attempt to access a help topic from the IDE I get > "Attempting to use an invalid compiled help (.chm) file." The .chm files > have the correct icon associated with them in Windows Explorer, and when I > attempt to access them directly from there I get "Cannot open the file: > Studio\MSDN\2000JUL\1033\AUTOMAT.CHM" (when attempting automat.chm, for > instance). > I did full reinstalls of VS three times and it still didn't help. I > reapplied the MSDN, etc. I even uninstalled VS and MSDN before reinstalling. > I am running VS6 SP5 on NT 4.0 SP4. > VS help is the only thing on my entire system that does not work. I really > do not want to have to rebuild everything from scratch (i.e. reinstall NT > 4.0). I assume something is tweaked in the registry. > *** > I have lived without VB help files for a couple of months, but I really need > them now. I can' figure out why > "IF dblOperand1 < dblOperand2 THEN ..." > evaluates as true when dblOperand1 = -1.02E-03 and dblOperand2 = -2.12E-03.
Mon, 24 Nov 2003 02:15:27 GMT

Jack Fo #3 / 3	help files not working Many thanks. Hhupd.exe did the trick! I thought maybe something with the compiler option "Allow Unrounded Floating Point Operations" may be causing my floating-point compare problem. If I can't figure it out soon I'll post a more specific message to the group. Quote: > My shot-in-the-dark on the help file thing is that the bozo app you > installed replaced the file hh.exe. > Try going to this url... > http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/tools/htmlhelp/wkshp/download.htm > and download/run the "Hhupd.exe" file > Which, BTW, contrary to documentation, DOES NOT ship on any VS cd-rom. > As for your compare error...I'm a tad lost... > On my machine, the stament... > ? (-1.02E-03) < (-2.12E-03) > returns false...so..."WTF" is all I can say.... > > Ever since an attempt to install some commercial utility software that > went > > awry my VB help files have been unusable. (I won't mention the name, > non-MS, > > the vendor claims they did hundreds of beta installs and never heard of my > > problem.) Whenever I attempt to access a help topic from the IDE I get > > "Attempting to use an invalid compiled help (.chm) file." The .chm files > > have the correct icon associated with them in Windows Explorer, and when I > > attempt to access them directly from there I get "Cannot open the file: > > Studio\MSDN\2000JUL\1033\AUTOMAT.CHM" (when attempting automat.chm, for > > instance). > > I did full reinstalls of VS three times and it still didn't help. I > > reapplied the MSDN, etc. I even uninstalled VS and MSDN before > reinstalling. > > I am running VS6 SP5 on NT 4.0 SP4. > > VS help is the only thing on my entire system that does not work. I really > > do not want to have to rebuild everything from scratch (i.e. reinstall NT > > 4.0). I assume something is tweaked in the registry. > > *** > > I have lived without VB help files for a couple of months, but I really > need > > them now. I can' figure out why > > "IF dblOperand1 < dblOperand2 THEN ..." > > evaluates as true when dblOperand1 = -1.02E-03 and dblOperand2 > = -2.12E-03.
Mon, 24 Nov 2003 07:08:47 GMT

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