Visual Studio won't search in Fortran documentation

[Michael_Barall]

I just installed Intel Fortran with Visual Studio 2008 Professional (the full Microsoft product, not the shell) on Windows 7 Ultimate x64.

The Fortran documentation is present in the Visual Studio help system. I can browse it, and I can see it in the Contents and Index panes.

But the search function never returns any results from the Fortran documentation.

The search function has drop-down menus for "Language", "Technology", and "Content Type" but none of the drop-downs refer to Fortran or Intel. And it doesn't matter what I select in the drop-downs, the search function just can't see the Fortran documentation.

Is something wrong with my installation, or is the help search function not supported?

[Steven_L_Intel1]

It is supported, but I have seen this sometimes. Not sure what causes it. Try an uninstall and reinstall of Fortran and see if that helps.

[qolin]

I have the same problem after upgrading from 10.1 to 11.1. I'll let Michael experiment with reinstalling, hopefully he'll tell us how he gets on...

[Michael_Barall]

I reinstalled Fortran 3 times, and reinstalled the MSDN library once, and there has been some improvement.

Now, if all three of the filters (Language, Technology, and Content Type) are set to "All", then the search function can see the Fortran documentation. Otherwise, the search function does not see the Fortran documentation.

That means there is no way to limit the search to just the Fortran documentation. With the filters set to "All" searches return matches not only in the Fortran documentation but also the entire MSDN library.

It's not ideal, but it's useable. I don't know what else to try.

[rase]

After installation of IVF and CVF 11.1.060 and the subsequent deinstallation of previous versions of IVF/CVF the whole Fortran documentation does not show up anymore, except for MKL. What can I do to get the docs for Fortran back again?

[Steven_L_Intel1]

Do this.

Open a command prompt window.

Set your default (cd) to C:\Program Files\Intel\Compiler\11.1\060\help [if you are using a different version, substitute the appropriate path here).

Type the following commands for the VS versions you have:

h2reg -r CmdFile=..\Documentation\vshelp\1033\intel.forprodocs.en\fproc_vs2008_H2Reg_cmd.ini
h2reg -r CmdFile=..\Documentation\vshelp\1033\intel.forprodocs.en\fproc_vs2005_H2Reg_cmd.ini
h2reg -r CmdFile=..\Documentation\vshelp\1033\intel.forprodocs.en\fproc_vs2003_H2Reg_cmd.ini

Type the following commands:

h2reg -r CmdFile=..\Documentation\vshelp\1033\intel.debuggerdocs_f.en\H2Reg_cmd_idb_f.ini
h2reg -r CmdFile=..\Documentation\vshelp\1033\\intel.fprocompilerdocs.en\H2Reg_cmd.ini

Let me know how this works for you.

[rase]

Thanks a lot , Steve. The commands solved the problem.