To view the documentation installed with your product:
- Start Visual Studio.
- Ensure that the Visual Studio Help Library is pointing to local help - from the Visual Studio menu click
Help > Set Help Preferences > Launch in Help Browser.
- Click
Help > View Help.
This opens the product help in Microsoft's Help Viewer.
For full details of the Visual Studio Help system, see the MSDN.
If, after
Visual COBOL was installed, you do not see its product help in the Help Viewer, you need to install the documentation manually as follows:
- Start Visual Studio.
- Click
Help > Add and Remove Content.
This starts the Microsoft Help Viewer.
- Click the
Manage Content tab and click
Disk.
- Click the browse button next to
Disk and navigate to the
%ProgramFiles(x86)%\Micro Focus\Visual COBOL for Visual Studio 2012\Help folder.
- Select
helpcontentsetup.msha and click
Open.
This loads the
Visual COBOL documentation.
- Click
Add and then
Update.
After the installation is complete, the
Visual COBOL product Help appears in the Help Viewer.
Note: On some Windows versions such as Windows 8 or Windows Server 2012, an issue with Microsoft Help Viewer and Internet Explorer's
security being turned on can cause the Help content to be displayed as raw HTML code. To resolve the issue, you need to turn
off the Internet Explorer Enhanced Security Configuration (IE ESC) for both administrators and users. Check the Microsoft
Windows help for more information on how to do this.