Coming soon – Microsoft Help 3
March 12th, 2009 1 Comment
In this interview, from Channel 9, April Reagan (a Program Manager at Microsoft) talks about the up-coming Microsoft Help 3. This client-side help system will be used first in the MSDN Library within Visual Studio 2010, but will be made available for other software companies to use.
Note: I found the first half of the video the most interesting. After that the interview moves onto other things and only returns to help towards the end. Unfortunately there’s not a whole lot of detail about how the new help system will differ from good old HTML Help. There’s no demo, for instance. Still it’s interesting that Microsoft are still investing in the idea of client-side help.
Note: This video belongs to Dan Fernandez and Channel 9.
If you're having problems viewing the above video, try the orignal video on Channel 9,
or view it in Windows Media Player.
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March 12th, 2009 at 10:02 am (#)
You can ignore this comment. I'm just testing the tags you can put in comments - like a URL: itauthor. Next (between pipe characters is: |an abbr| and here is an |acronym|.
Of course there a plain old b tag and here (I'm writing this on the same line within the comment box) is a blockquote:
And this time a citation (again, the citation tags are indicated by the pipes): |this is the citation| and how about some code:
1 + 2 = 3. Was that OK?So here - still on the same line as I'm writing this - is a del:deleted at 10.25and an em for emphasis or, if you prefer, an i for italic. Don't bother using a q tag because || and I have no idea what it's for. But to finish with, here'ssome text within strike tagsand good old familiar strong.ps: <p> and <br> tags also work just fine.