We are constantly looking to improve our offline content story. In addition to your usual developer content, such as books covering Visual C#, Visual F# and others, we have added brand new content to the list, including:Īll these books are available in the Manage Content section of Help Viewer – click on Add next to the books that you are interested in and select Update at the bottom of the screen. With the new Visual Studio installer, this is a two-click process: simply select Individual Components, and click on Help Viewer under Code tools. Starting with Visual Studio 2017, Help Viewer is now an optional component that you have to manually select during installation. Adding Help Viewer to your Visual Studio installation The new offline books continue to integrate directly with Visual Studio, allowing you to rely on the familiar in-context help (F1) and many features of the Help Viewer, such as indexed search, favorites and tables of contents that mirror those of online pages.

The process to create and update an offline book now takes hours instead of months!

We are also hosting the book generation and fetching services entirely on Microsoft Azure, which makes them more performant and reliable – we will be continuously updating the content, so you will no longer be stuck with outdated books and wait 6 months for the next release. Now you can easily download content published on MSDN and Docs for consumption on-the-go, without needing an active internet connection. Today we are happy to announce that new offline books for Visual Studio 2017 are now available for download.

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