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From: Rob Chandler [MVP] on 14 May 2008 06:48
Interesting question for the ISVs. You basically want something that will
decompress selected HxS files and then index them for searching. Maybe
turn them into a CHM. The entire MSDN is millions of HTML pages.
With office at the moment I have 2,500 titles (HxS) files on my machine.
That's 4GB of compressed files. Mmm that will fit on a USB stick just fine.

Now my app FAR.exe will open standalone HxS help files and allow you to
view them as a Help 2.x collection. eg...
C:\Program Files\MSDN\MSDN8.0\Visual Studio 8.0\1033\dv_aspnetctrlauth.hxs

Actually FAR can be used to Export all collection info and then Reregister
the collections
after tweeking the registration files. Mmmm... Sounds like a lot of trouble
to go to.

The immediate question that comes to mind is... Why not just install
MSDN on your laptop and all of your computers. Its a per user license
not a per machine license (as far as I understand). Carry the disk with
you incase you need to install elsewhere. :-)

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Rob Chandler
MS Help MVP
http://helpware.net
"Kerem G�mr�kc�" <kareem114(a)hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> Hi,
>
> this question is something i was thinking about in the past.
> Is there a way, to make the MSDN Library portable, e.g
> install on a portable USB Disk and the use it whenever and
> wherever you need it? I mean there is the free Winapi Hlp
> available everywhere in the web, but it would be great to
> have the complete Windows SDK, DDK, the big MSDN
> Library Help available on a portable HDD. I dont have Internet
> everywhere and i cant install MSDN on any machine i want.
> Sometimes it would be really great to have the MSDN
> portable. Is there any way to make this possible,...like it
> was possible with the old (VS6) MSDN Library which was
> a bunch of CHM Files,...
>
> This is really no joke questions, so maybe it seems at first,...
> but it is not,..
>
>
> Regards
>
> Kerem
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