Visual Studio 2010 help system is missing index and full TOC

The new Visual Studio 2010 help system is missing index and full TOC. Transition from old good HTML help to new Web Browser Based Approach thing is painful, but the inability to search using index made this thing unusable. Luckily, I am not alone, and people are talking about these shortcomings everywhere – Microsoft Connect, …

Setup Project shows ‘WARNING: Could not find prerequisite’ under Visual Studio 2010

Visual Studio Installer (MSI) warning: WARNING: Could not find prerequisite ‘.NET Framework 2.0 (x86)’ in path ‘C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v7.0A\Bootstrapper\’ or WARNING: Could not find prerequisite ‘.NET Framework 2.0 (x86)’ in path ‘C:\Program Files\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v7.0A\Bootstrapper\’ The result is that automatic downloading of prerequisites does not work any more. This is caused by fact, that Visual …

‘auto’ in C++ is the same as ‘var’ in C#

auto in C++ is the same as var in C#. Auto keyword is defined in upcoming C++ standard C++0x The news is, that latest Microsoft Visual Studio C++ 2010 have support for this keyword. auto keyword has a new meaning – ‘declares a variable whose type is deduced from the initialization expression in its declaration’. …