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 …

It seems that _SECURE_SCL_THROWS is deprecated in Visual Studio C++ 2010

It seems that _SECURE_SCL_THROWS is deprecated in Visual Studio C++ 2010. Because include file ‘Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\VC\include\yvals.h’ has the following code block: #if _SECURE_SCL_THROWS #ifndef _SILENCE_DEPRECATION_OF_SECURE_SCL_THROWS … #undef _SECURE_SCL_THROWS #pragma _CRT_WARNING( _DEPRECATE_SECURE_SCL_THROWS ) … It gets undefined, and if you search c++ header files, there are no references to _SECURE_SCL_THROWS anymore. The strange part …