Avoid document explorer in VS8 (dock help in the VS)?

[Vincent Fatica]

In my old .NET (2002), I have the help's index and search as tabs along with the
solution explorer docked inside the visual studio (and help docs selected
therein show in the same interface as my program sources). Is there a way to do
that (and avoid the "document explorer") with VS8? Thanks.

 

[Carl Daniel [VC++ MVP]]

In my old .NET (2002), I have the help's index and search as tabs
along with the solution explorer docked inside the visual studio (and
help docs selected therein show in the same interface as my program
sources). Is there a way to do that (and avoid the "document
explorer") with VS8? Thanks. --

Tools|Options|Help|Show Help Using.... Integreated Viewer.

-cd

 

[Vincent Fatica]

Tools|Options|Help|Show Help Using.... Integreated Viewer.

Thanks, Carl. I should have explored "Options" before asking.

With a little trouble I got "Search" docked as a tab but being huge it's pretty
useless like that unless I can get its output into the output window. Any way
to make it like the old one? (Although I might like it as a document tab when I
get used to it.)

Is "single-threaded" a thing of the past?

Does a 46KB DLL (built with .NET 2002) turning into 58KB (VS2005) sound about
right (/MT in both cases)? That's a lot (considering what I know I can squeeze
into 12KB)! Are there any "grandfather" options that will make things smaller?
Thanks again.

 

[Carl Daniel [VC++ MVP]]

Thanks, Carl. I should have explored "Options" before asking.

With a little trouble I got "Search" docked as a tab but being huge
it's pretty useless like that unless I can get its output into the
output window. Any way to make it like the old one? (Although I
might like it as a document tab when I get used to it.)

I don't know of any option to make search work like before, sorry.

Is "single-threaded" a thing of the past?

Does a 46KB DLL (built with .NET 2002) turning into 58KB (VS2005)
sound about right (/MT in both cases)? That's a lot (considering
what I know I can squeeze into 12KB)! Are there any "grandfather"
options that will make things smaller? Thanks again.

The single threaded CRT is a thing of the past. You can still build it
yourself from the CRT sources, however. You should also check your project
options. While I don't believe that any options with significant size
implications are on by default at the compiler level, I do believe the IDE
defaults have been changed so that options like /GS, /RTCsu, /EHs and /GR
are on by default (I didn't check - that's just my recollection).

-cd