I'm using Visual Studio 2012 Express. It ships with new help system: help viewer 2.0.
One of Help Viewer 1.1 settings is content location. So once some MSDN references have been downloaded, and if Visual Studio 2010 Express is reinstalled, those MSDN references don't have to be downloaded again. Just set the content location in Help Viewer 1.1 and all is fine.
But in Help Viewer 2.0, I don't see a "content location" setting. And some googling doesn't show me know how to do this. Do I have to download MSDN references every time I reinstall Visual Studio 2012 Express?
I'll be very thankful for any help.
Help Viewer 2.0 enables you to specify and move the location of the local content store from the "Manage Content" tab. However, there are two issues with doing this in your specific scenario (reusing downloaded content across install/uninstall cycles):
To work around these issues, use this approach:
Modify the registry key to set the content store to your desired location:
Key location: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Help\v2.0\Catalogs\VisualStudio11
Key name: LocationPath (e.g. "D:\msdn")