Using Help in Visual Studio
The Visual Studio Help collection presents information about languages, designers, and technologies in a variety of ways. Use the following links to read more about how you can get the help you need, when you need it.
In This Section
- Document Conventions (Visual Studio)
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Shows how typographical conventions are used to indicate the meaning and function of text in Help topics.
- Navigation and Graphical Elements within Help Topics
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Shows the three different graphics that can be displayed in topic headers and describes how they link to additional types of information related to the topics.
- Strategies for Using Help
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Discusses how you can get specific results from the variety of Help features in Visual Studio.
- How to: Download Sample Files in Help Topics
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Explains how to load sample files into the IDE, copy sample files to your computer, and view non-binary sample files.
- Help Filters for Visual Studio
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Lists the pre-defined Help filters that are available with Visual Studio as well as the content included with each filter.
- Help, Environment, Options Dialog Box
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Information about how to change the default options for using online content and local content, Dynamic Help, and preferences for searching multiple Help locales.
- How to: Copy Help Favorites to Another Computer
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Information about how to transfer topics and search queries saved in Help Favorites to another computer.