Your opinion on external references in CHM files

[fearless]

Here is a zip containing all the above listed chms plus an ntundoc one i had as well.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/xqccj4v0bm4yn5d/chm.zip?dl=0

[GoneFishing]

Thank you ,  :t

[jj2007]

Excellent, Fearless :t

In the meantime, I have tried to download parts of the MSDN library via the help manager in my Visual Crap installation. It's a nightmare in terms of handling, false and misleading error messages etc, but in the end I succeeded in finding a way to access the content from outside (phew!) VS. Try this, maybe it works directly if you have the offline help installed: CreateWaitableTimer

EDIT: Won't work, but the latest version of RichMasm can handle the problem, see below.

[TWell]

How well H3Viewer works with MS Help 3 ?

[jj2007]

No idea, but I am currently experimenting with C:\Program Files\Microsoft Help Viewer\v1.0\HelpLibAgent.exe

For example, the MSDN reference to SendMessage looks nice with such a URL:

http://127.0.0.1:47873/help/1-3728/ms.help?product=VS&productVersion=100&method=f1&query=SendMessageW&locale=en-US&category=DevLang%3aC%2B%2B

I have VC Express installed but never use it - I hate it, inter alia because it is slow and clumsy. But it has a nice feature: the Help Library Manager. It allows to download the MSDN library and use it offline (about one GigaByte...!).

And I found a way to use it without launching Visual Crap. If somebody has VS help locally installed (i.e. offline), I'd be grateful for feedback. Install MasmBasic from here, then while you are looking at the help file, type something like createwindow, select the word and click menu Help/VS help (the 5th entry). If it works, MSDN will show you the entry. At least on Win7-64, it works fine.

[TWell]

help cabs downloader here
VS 2012 ->