Intel Visual Fortran 2008 Shell - setting up help

[Lars_Jakobsen]

Hi,

Werecently made the transition from compaq visual fortran(cvf)to intel parallel studioXE 2011 (ivf)and uses the visualstudio 2008 shell environment. In cvf the help files for the windows platform SDK was an inherent part of the help documentation, such that when I pushed f1 on e.g. createwindowex it would jump directly to the local help file for createwindowex. However in ivf this does not happen. I have tryed to install microsoft windows SDKbut this does not merge the help file into the visual studio 2008 shelldocument explorer.

Is it possible to"merge" the two help files such that when I push f1 on e.g. createwindowex it will jump to the windows SDK help for createwindowex (and I can use both the contents and index to search for windows api calls)?


Regards

Lars

[Steven_L_Intel1]

Sorry, that's not possible with the VS2008 help as Microsoft made changes in the help system. The VS shell doesn't provide the Microsoft documentation. I think you can download the MSDN library and install it (just installing the SDK won't help), but I'm not sure if this will integrate in VS08 the way it did in CVF. You can do this in VS2010. Help on the Win32 API is available at MSDN.