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Will Visual Studio 2003 and 2008 fail gracefully if I uninstall the MSDN library

I use google as my primary reference so I don't need a local copy of MSDN; and am trying to free up a few GB of disk space.

Before I pull the plug I'd like to make sure that my fatfingering the F1 key won't end up freezing visual studio up for even longer than it does with MSDN installed.

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You can set the f1 to go to the online msdn rather to the local one, and uninstall it.

Dani  2010-01-04 15:00:02
Do you have any idea where in the options dialog I should be looking for that setting?
Dan Neely  2010-01-04 15:33:55
In VS2k8 the setting are under Tools-Options-Environment-Help-Online.
Dan Neely  2010-01-04 16:47:05
In VS2k3 Tools-Options-Environment-Help looks like where it should be set but none of the options I can change are pointing the help browser to http://msdn.microsoft.com/whatever urls instead of ms-help://whatever.
Dan Neely  2010-01-04 16:51:35
I'll need to find a computer with vs2k3 and check... this is a very old version (although the best msdn support was for VS 6).
Dani  2010-01-05 10:35:06
True. Unfortunately I still have one app built with it that uses a few 3rd party controls that don't work properly with the 2.0 or later frameworks. I haven't actually done anything with it for while but don't want to break my tools either if that changes.
Dan Neely  2010-01-05 13:28:42
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Uninstalling MSDN is a supported action and should not cause any problems with your installation.

JaredPar  2010-01-04 15:17:49

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