SSMSE Help is missing

29 Dec 2005 2:49 PM

todderickson

I have the newest December CTP of SSMSE and the newest December SQL
Server 2005 Books Online installed on my system, however BOL is not
integrated into the SSMSE help. I can't get context sensitive help
when I am working on a query and BOL is not available on the Help menu.
Over the past few months I have had several copies of SQL Server 2000,
SQL Server 2005, and the various tools installed on this machine.
I am guessing that I have a registry entry that is messed up. Can
anyone help me with this?
Thanks.

29 Dec 2005 5:00 PM

Rick Byham [MS]

Integrated help is not a feature of SSMSE. I pushed hard for it but the
final decision was that it was more important to have a small download size.
Though a lot of people want help, more wanted a lightweight tool and the
Visual Studio components to add the help viewer took us over our size limit.
You must either use Books Online as a stand alone component or use the full
Management Studio from the full editions of SQL Server.

--
Rick Byham
MCDBA, MCSE, MCSA
Lead Technical Writer,
Microsoft, SQL Server Books Online
This posting is provided "as is" with
no warranties, and confers no rights.

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>I have the newest December CTP of SSMSE and the newest December SQL
> Server 2005 Books Online installed on my system, however BOL is not
> integrated into the SSMSE help. I can't get context sensitive help
> when I am working on a query and BOL is not available on the Help menu.
> Over the past few months I have had several copies of SQL Server 2000,
> SQL Server 2005, and the various tools installed on this machine.
> I am guessing that I have a registry entry that is messed up. Can
> anyone help me with this?
> Thanks.
>