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Reputation: 21289

Can the Visual Studio 2013 help viewer use the 2012 offline contents?

Okay, so I read that Visual Studio 2013 makes use of the Visual Studio 2012 help content. Consequently I used Visual Studio 2012/2013 Help Downloader and now have a local cache of the help content.

Now I can import that into Visual Studio 2013 and 2012 respectively. But how can I make use of the already installed content from one VS version inside the other?

Is there a solution short of using hardlinks to save the disk space that would otherwise be wasted on the same contents?

Side-note: hardlinking saves approx. 1.3 GiB, but that's less than the expected half of the overall amount.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 3674

Answers (2)

Simon Featherstone
Simon Featherstone

Reputation: 1796

http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/confirmation.aspx?id=34794 now contains and ISO for VS2012 and VS2013 documentation. Download the VS2013 ISO and it contains both. Then mount the ISO, and follow the html instructions on the disk.

Upvotes: 0

shirbr510
shirbr510

Reputation: 858

The answer to your question in the title is yes.

VS 2013 can use same VS 2012 offline help contents.

If you use the offline help contents, VS will also not duplicate the actual physical file but instead reference to it.

Upvotes: 1

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