Hi,

this question is something i was thinking about in the past.
Is there a way, to make the MSDN Library portable, e.g
install on a portable USB Disk and the use it whenever and
wherever you need it? I mean there is the free Winapi Hlp
available everywhere in the web, but it would be great to
have the complete Windows SDK, DDK, the big MSDN
Library Help available on a portable HDD. I dont have Internet
everywhere and i cant install MSDN on any machine i want.
Sometimes it would be really great to have the MSDN
portable. Is there any way to make this possible,...like it
was possible with the old (VS6) MSDN Library which was
a bunch of CHM Files,...

This is really no joke questions, so maybe it seems at first,...
but it is not,..


Regards

Kerem

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Interesting question for the ISVs. You basically want something that will
decompress selected HxS files and then index them for searching. Maybe
turn them into a CHM. The entire MSDN is millions of HTML pages.
With office at the moment I have 2,500 titles (HxS) files on my machine.
That's 4GB of compressed files. Mmm that will fit on a USB stick just fine.

Now my app FAR.exe will open standalone HxS help files and allow you to
view them as a Help 2.x collection. eg...
C:\Program Files\MSDN\MSDN8.0\Visual Studio 8.0\1033\dv_aspnetctrlauth.hxs

Actually FAR can be used to Export all collection info and then Reregister
the collections
after tweeking the registration files. Mmmm... Sounds like a lot of trouble
to go to.

The immediate question that comes to mind is... Why not just install
MSDN on your laptop and all of your computers. Its a per user license
not a per machine license (as far as I understand). Carry the disk with
you incase you need to install elsewhere. :-)

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Rob Chandler
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