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How Microsoft Visual Studio Is Doing Help

Saturday, November 7th, 2009 Posted in Technical Writing | No Comments »

The following 10 minute video shows what's new in the help system for the upcoming release of Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2. The key trends are as follows: Help is embedded in ... Read more..

Discovering Relationship Tables

Monday, August 3rd, 2009 Posted in Technical Writing | 10 Comments »

Lately I've been creating context-sensitive help for an online application. As part of my strategy, I've been trying to follow Theresa Putkey's advice in "Usability in Context-Sensitive Help." In her ... Read more..