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New Post: Break links in TechNet Library...

helpware — Thu, 11 Oct 2012 11:33:12 GMT

Thanks for the reminder! Yes all these hub pages have broken links. Maybe this is good to work on next.

New Post: Break links in TechNet Library...

HaoHu — Tue, 09 Oct 2012 11:47:38 GMT

I've noticed that some topic like System Center 2012 include some link in the pages. But them are not shown in the node. So when I build a CHM file some pages' links broken...

New Post: Error downloading content

helpware — Sun, 30 Sep 2012 18:10:32 GMT

Please try build 1.3.7

New Post: How to download from "Dev Center - Desktop"?

helpware — Sun, 30 Sep 2012 18:08:03 GMT

I would send a message to Microsoft and ask them. This tool wont download and package docs that are outside the MSDN and technet libraries.

New Post: Should Package This support continued sync.?

helpware — Sun, 30 Sep 2012 18:03:40 GMT

HaoHu wrote:

When I sync many toc from msdn... It spent my more than 5 days... and the PC crashed... and I must restart form begin...

Should Package This save the state of the sync process? Then can resume the sync after problem be fixed...

I've added a new command context command "Expand This Node and All Children". This can expand and build a TOC branch without downloading files.

This will give you a file count. And you can get a ruff idea if you are going the blow the safe limit of around 10,000 files per package. Microsoft themselves never put > 10,000 files into a package.

I suspect the only reason people are crashing the application is because they are download too many files.

Last night I download 30,000 topic files (55,000 files including images) wwhich was half the Web Development section of MSDN. It created a large 0.5 GB .mshc file.
This is too big. And it takes a couple of hours to generate the .mshc file. But it did install quite fast and viewed OK.

So please aim at 10,000 files max. And try the new 1.3.7 build.

See new Tutorial: http://packagethis.codeplex.com/wikipage?title=PackageThis%20Tutorial

New Post: Should Package This support continued sync.?

HaoHu — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 06:43:58 GMT

When I sync many toc from msdn... It spent my more than 5 days... and the PC crashed... and I must restart form begin...

Should Package This save the state of the sync process? Then can resume the sync after problem be fixed...

New Post: How to download from "Dev Center - Desktop"?

rajeshaz09 — Wed, 14 Mar 2012 06:39:58 GMT

How to download MSDN content from following link?

Memory Management

New Post: Links with anchors point to MSDN (FIX!)

jbutera — Sun, 19 Feb 2012 13:47:02 GMT

Output to CHM works, including anchors :D

Link.cs:

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Data;
using System.Text;
using System.Web;

namespace PackageThis
{
    public class Link
    {
        private Content contentDataSet;
        private Dictionary<string, string> links;

        public Link(Content contentDataSet, Dictionary<string, string> links)
        {
            this.contentDataSet = contentDataSet;
            this.links = links;
        }

        public string Anchor(string href)
        {
            int anchorpos = href.IndexOf("#");
            if (anchorpos < 0)
                return "";

            return href.Remove(0, anchorpos);
        }

        // Called by the transform to lookup an href. If it begins with "AssetId:", we lookup
        // its aKeyword.
        public string Resolve(string href, string version, string locale, bool returnContentId)
        {
//            Console.WriteLine("href: " + href);
            if(href.ToLower().StartsWith("assetid:") == true)
            {
                string assetId = HttpUtility.UrlDecode(href.Remove(0, "assetid:".Length).ToLower());
                int anchorpos = assetId.IndexOf("#");
                string anchor = "";

                if (anchorpos > 0)
                {
                    anchor = assetId.Remove(0, anchorpos);
                    assetId = assetId.Remove(anchorpos);
                }
//                Console.WriteLine("assetId: "+assetId);

                DataRow row = contentDataSet.Tables["Item"].Rows.Find(assetId);

                if ((row != null) && (row["ContentId"] != null))
                {
//                    Console.WriteLine("contentId: " + row["ContentId"].ToString());
                }

                if (row == null)
                {
                    string target = assetId;

                    if (links.ContainsKey(assetId) == true)
                        target = links[assetId];

                    // Added d=ide for a view that hides the TOC.
                    // TODO: change from msdn2 when possible.
//                    Console.WriteLine("return: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/library/" + target + "(" + version + "," +
//                        locale + ",d=ide)" + anchor + ".aspx");
                    return "http://msdn2.microsoft.com/library/" + target + "(" + version + "," +
                        locale + ",d=ide)" + anchor + ".aspx";
                }

                if (returnContentId == true)
                {
                    // what is this? should it have the anchor or not?
//                    Console.WriteLine("return: "+row["ContentId"].ToString());
                    return row["ContentId"].ToString();
                }
                else
                {
                    if (anchorpos > 0)
                    {
//                        Console.WriteLine("return: " + assetId + anchor);
                        return assetId + anchor;
                    }
                    else
                    {
//                        Console.WriteLine("return: " + assetId);
                        return assetId;
                    }
                }
            }
//            Console.WriteLine("return: "+href);
            return href;
        } 
    }
}

And then in chm.xslt:

<xsl:template match="xhtml:a|xhtml:A|a|A">
    <xsl:choose>
      <!-- Some documentation has empty <a name="aName"> tags which end up self-closing, which confuses
    IE and Firefox. The comment within is to prevent a self-closing tag.  -->
      <xsl:when test="@name or @id">
        <a>
          <xsl:apply-templates select="@*" />
          <xsl:apply-templates />
          <xsl:comment>*</xsl:comment>
        </a>
      </xsl:when>

      <xsl:when test="@href">
        <xsl:choose>
          <xsl:when test="starts-with(@href,'#') or starts-with(@href,'http:')">
            <a>
              <xsl:apply-templates select="@*" />
              <xsl:attribute name="href">
                <xsl:value-of select="@href" />
              </xsl:attribute>
              <xsl:apply-templates/>
            </a>
          </xsl:when>

          <xsl:when test ="starts-with(@href, 'AssetId:')">
            <xsl:variable name="link">
              <xsl:value-of select="hxLink:Resolve(@href, $version, $locale, true())"/>
            </xsl:variable>

            <a>
              <xsl:apply-templates select="@*" />
              <xsl:attribute name="href">
                <xsl:choose>
                  <xsl:when test="starts-with($link, 'http:')">
                    <xsl:value-of select="$link" />
                  </xsl:when>
                  <xsl:otherwise>
                    <xsl:text>html/</xsl:text>
                    <xsl:value-of select="$link" />
                    <xsl:text>.htm</xsl:text>
                    <xsl:value-of select="hxLink:Anchor(@href)" />
                  </xsl:otherwise>
                </xsl:choose>
              </xsl:attribute>
              <xsl:apply-templates/>
            </a>

          </xsl:when>


        </xsl:choose>
      </xsl:when>
    </xsl:choose>
  </xsl:template>

New Post: Links with anchors point to MSDN (FIX!)

jbutera — Sun, 19 Feb 2012 12:46:28 GMT

As other people have noted, a huge number of links in the generated CHM end up pointing to the MSDN website. Since that defeats the whole point of creating a CHM, it makes this tool useless.

I investigated, and found that it happens when the link has an URL with an anchor in it, such as http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa511441.aspx#Userscenarios. This is because Link.Resolve() isn't expecting it, and tries to look up the the assetId with the anchor appended.

Here's my revised Link.Resolve() function, which just strips the anchor off of the assetId. There is more work to do, it seems, to get the anchors to actually work. First of all, it seems they don't even exist in the generated output (there are no <a name="foo"> tags). And the links don't have the anchor in them. Is this something to be fixed in the .xslt files? What the heck are those? At least the links take you to the right page anyhow...

        public string Resolve(string href, string version, string locale, bool returnContentId)
        {
//            Console.WriteLine("href: " + href);
            if(href.ToLower().StartsWith("assetid:") == true)
            {
                string assetId = HttpUtility.UrlDecode(href.Remove(0, "assetid:".Length).ToLower());
                int anchorpos = assetId.IndexOf("#");
                string anchor = "";

                if (anchorpos > 0)
                {
                    anchor = assetId.Remove(0, anchorpos - 1);
                    assetId = assetId.Remove(anchorpos);
                }
//                Console.WriteLine("assetId: "+assetId);

                DataRow row = contentDataSet.Tables["Item"].Rows.Find(assetId);

                if (row == null)
                {
                    string target = assetId;

                    if (links.ContainsKey(assetId) == true)
                        target = links[assetId];

                    // Added d=ide for a view that hides the TOC.
                    // TODO: change from msdn2 when possible.
//                    Console.WriteLine("return: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/library/" + target + "(" + version + "," +
                        locale + ",d=ide)" + anchor + ".aspx");
                    return "http://msdn2.microsoft.com/library/" + target + "(" + version + "," +
                        locale + ",d=ide)" + anchor + ".aspx";
                }

                if (returnContentId == true)
                {
//                    Console.WriteLine("return: "+row["ContentId"].ToString());
                    return row["ContentId"].ToString();
                }
                else
                {
//                    Console.WriteLine("return: "+assetId);
                    return assetId;
                }
            }
//            Console.WriteLine("return: "+href);
            return href;
        }

New Post: Unhandled Exception: "The given path's format is not supported"

svanschalkwyk — Mon, 12 Sep 2011 00:59:31 GMT

Occurs when building CHM from MSDN SharePoint 2010 top and all child folders. Path and name for CHM changed to C:\Test.chm . Other file names and paths produce same problem.

Possible problem somewhere in downloaded content.

Version 1.3.4.0.

Great tool by the way. Other (Technet) build well.

Thanks,

Step

See the end of this message for details on invoking just-in-time (JIT) debugging instead of this dialog box.
************** Exception Text **************System.NotSupportedException: The given path's format is not supported. at System.Security.Util.StringExpressionSet.CanonicalizePath(String path, Boolean needFullPath) at System.Security.Util.StringExpressionSet.CreateListFromExpressions(String[] str, Boolean needFullPath) at System.Security.Permissions.FileIOPermission.AddPathList(FileIOPermissionAccess access, AccessControlActions control, String[] pathListOrig, Boolean checkForDuplicates, Boolean needFullPath, Boolean copyPathList) at System.Security.Permissions.FileIOPermission..ctor(FileIOPermissionAccess access, AccessControlActions control, String[] pathList, Boolean checkForDuplicates, Boolean needFullPath) at System.IO.FileStream.Init(String path, FileMode mode, FileAccess access, Int32 rights, Boolean useRights, FileShare share, Int32 bufferSize, FileOptions options, SECURITY_ATTRIBUTES secAttrs, String msgPath, Boolean bFromProxy, Boolean useLongPath) at System.IO.FileStream..ctor(String path, FileMode mode, FileAccess access, FileShare share, Int32 bufferSize, FileOptions options, String msgPath, Boolean bFromProxy) at System.IO.FileStream..ctor(String path, FileMode mode, FileAccess access, FileShare share, Int32 bufferSize, FileOptions options) at System.IO.StreamWriter..ctor(String path, Boolean append, Encoding encoding, Int32 bufferSize) at System.IO.StreamWriter..ctor(String path, Boolean append, Encoding encoding) at PackageThis.Chm.Transform(String contentId, String metadataXml, String annotationsXml, String versionId, String docTitle, Content contentDataSet) at PackageThis.Chm.Create() at PackageThis.AppController.CreateChm(String chmFile, String title, String locale, Content contentDataSet) at PackageThis.MainForm.exportToChmFileToolStripMenuItem_Click(Object sender, EventArgs e) at System.Windows.Forms.ToolStripMenuItem.OnClick(EventArgs e) at System.Windows.Forms.ToolStripItem.HandleClick(EventArgs e) at System.Windows.Forms.ToolStripItem.HandleMouseUp(MouseEventArgs e) at System.Windows.Forms.ToolStrip.OnMouseUp(MouseEventArgs mea) at System.Windows.Forms.ToolStripDropDown.OnMouseUp(MouseEventArgs mea) at System.Windows.Forms.Control.WmMouseUp(Message& m, MouseButtons button, Int32 clicks) at System.Windows.Forms.Control.WndProc(Message& m) at System.Windows.Forms.ToolStrip.WndProc(Message& m) at System.Windows.Forms.ToolStripDropDown.WndProc(Message& m) at System.Windows.Forms.NativeWindow.Callback(IntPtr hWnd, Int32 msg, IntPtr wparam, IntPtr lparam)

************** Loaded Assemblies **************mscorlib Assembly Version: 4.0.0.0 Win32 Version: 4.0.30319.235 (RTMGDR.030319-2300) CodeBase: file:///C:/Windows/Microsoft.NET/Framework64/v4.0.30319/mscorlib.dll----------------------------------------PackageThis Assembly Version: 1.3.4.0 Win32 Version: 1.3.4.0 CodeBase: file:///C:/Users/Administrator/Downloads/PackageThis1.3.4.exe----------------------------------------System.Windows.Forms Assembly Version: 4.0.0.0 Win32 Version: 4.0.30319.235 built by: RTMGDR CodeBase: file:///C:/Windows/Microsoft.Net/assembly/GAC_MSIL/System.Windows.Forms/v4.0_4.0.0.0__b77a5c561934e089/System.Windows.Forms.dll----------------------------------------System.Drawing Assembly Version: 4.0.0.0 Win32 Version: 4.0.30319.1 built by: RTMRel CodeBase: file:///C:/Windows/Microsoft.Net/assembly/GAC_MSIL/System.Drawing/v4.0_4.0.0.0__b03f5f7f11d50a3a/System.Drawing.dll----------------------------------------System Assembly Version: 4.0.0.0 Win32 Version: 4.0.30319.236 built by: RTMGDR CodeBase: file:///C:/Windows/Microsoft.Net/assembly/GAC_MSIL/System/v4.0_4.0.0.0__b77a5c561934e089/System.dll----------------------------------------System.Configuration Assembly Version: 4.0.0.0 Win32 Version: 4.0.30319.1 (RTMRel.030319-0100) CodeBase: file:///C:/Windows/Microsoft.Net/assembly/GAC_MSIL/System.Configuration/v4.0_4.0.0.0__b03f5f7f11d50a3a/System.Configuration.dll----------------------------------------System.Xml Assembly Version: 4.0.0.0 Win32 Version: 4.0.30319.225 built by: RTMGDR CodeBase: file:///C:/Windows/Microsoft.Net/assembly/GAC_MSIL/System.Xml/v4.0_4.0.0.0__b77a5c561934e089/System.Xml.dll----------------------------------------System.Data Assembly Version: 4.0.0.0 Win32 Version: 4.0.30319.1 (RTMRel.030319-0100) CodeBase: file:///C:/Windows/Microsoft.Net/assembly/GAC_64/System.Data/v4.0_4.0.0.0__b77a5c561934e089/System.Data.dll----------------------------------------System.Core Assembly Version: 4.0.0.0 Win32 Version: 4.0.30319.225 built by: RTMGDR CodeBase: file:///C:/Windows/Microsoft.Net/assembly/GAC_MSIL/System.Core/v4.0_4.0.0.0__b77a5c561934e089/System.Core.dll----------------------------------------System.Numerics Assembly Version: 4.0.0.0 Win32 Version: 4.0.30319.1 built by: RTMRel CodeBase: file:///C:/Windows/Microsoft.Net/assembly/GAC_MSIL/System.Numerics/v4.0_4.0.0.0__b77a5c561934e089/System.Numerics.dll----------------------------------------System.Web.Services Assembly Version: 4.0.0.0 Win32 Version: 4.0.30319.1 (RTMRel.030319-0100) CodeBase: file:///C:/Windows/Microsoft.Net/assembly/GAC_MSIL/System.Web.Services/v4.0_4.0.0.0__b03f5f7f11d50a3a/System.Web.Services.dll----------------------------------------1zkzw0db Assembly Version: 1.3.4.0 Win32 Version: 4.0.30319.236 built by: RTMGDR CodeBase: file:///C:/Windows/Microsoft.Net/assembly/GAC_MSIL/System/v4.0_4.0.0.0__b77a5c561934e089/System.dll----------------------------------------System.Web Assembly Version: 4.0.0.0 Win32 Version: 4.0.30319.225 built by: RTMGDR CodeBase: file:///C:/Windows/Microsoft.Net/assembly/GAC_64/System.Web/v4.0_4.0.0.0__b03f5f7f11d50a3a/System.Web.dll----------------------------------------System.Data.SqlXml Assembly Version: 4.0.0.0 Win32 Version: 4.0.30319.1 built by: RTMRel CodeBase: file:///C:/Windows/Microsoft.Net/assembly/GAC_MSIL/System.Data.SqlXml/v4.0_4.0.0.0__b77a5c561934e089/System.Data.SqlXml.dll----------------------------------------System.Xml.Xsl.CompiledQuery.1 Assembly Version: 0.0.0.0 Win32 Version: 4.0.30319.1 built by: RTMRel CodeBase: file:///C:/Windows/Microsoft.Net/assembly/GAC_MSIL/System.Data.SqlXml/v4.0_4.0.0.0__b77a5c561934e089/System.Data.SqlXml.dll----------------------------------------System.Xml.Xsl.CompiledQuery.2 Assembly Version: 0.0.0.0 Win32 Version: 4.0.30319.1 built by: RTMRel CodeBase: file:///C:/Windows/Microsoft.Net/assembly/GAC_MSIL/System.Data.SqlXml/v4.0_4.0.0.0__b77a5c561934e089/System.Data.SqlXml.dll----------------------------------------ISymWrapper Assembly Version: 4.0.0.0 Win32 Version: 4.0.30319.1 (RTMRel.030319-0100) CodeBase: file:///C:/Windows/Microsoft.Net/assembly/GAC_64/ISymWrapper/v4.0_4.0.0.0__b03f5f7f11d50a3a/ISymWrapper.dll----------------------------------------System.Xml.Xsl.CompiledQuery.3 Assembly Version: 0.0.0.0 Win32 Version: 4.0.30319.1 built by: RTMRel CodeBase: file:///C:/Windows/Microsoft.Net/assembly/GAC_MSIL/System.Data.SqlXml/v4.0_4.0.0.0__b77a5c561934e089/System.Data.SqlXml.dll----------------------------------------WindowsBase Assembly Version: 4.0.0.0 Win32 Version: 4.0.30319.225 built by: RTMGDR CodeBase: file:///C:/Windows/Microsoft.Net/assembly/GAC_MSIL/WindowsBase/v4.0_4.0.0.0__31bf3856ad364e35/WindowsBase.dll----------------------------------------
************** JIT Debugging **************To enable just-in-time (JIT) debugging, the .config file for thisapplication or computer (machine.config) must have thejitDebugging value set in the system.windows.forms section.The application must also be compiled with debuggingenabled.
For example:
<configuration> <system.windows.forms jitDebugging="true" /></configuration>
When JIT debugging is enabled, any unhandled exceptionwill be sent to the JIT debugger registered on the computerrather than be handled by this dialog box.

New Post: Error downloading content

PeteGriff — Fri, 08 Jul 2011 13:38:30 GMT

I have tried selecting a couple of different items to download but after a while I always get 'Column 'ContentId' does not allow nulls.' I am using Windows 7 Enterprise SP1, is there any way to work around this?

New Post: Last version of source

bdejager — Tue, 14 Jun 2011 19:05:00 GMT

Hi Helpware,

thanks for the quick reply. I totally overlooked that one. Many thanks again.

Regards Bram

New Post: Last version of source

helpware — Tue, 14 Jun 2011 12:13:34 GMT

Please check the patches area again. You should see 2 downloads per version -- An EXE only download, and an EXE + Src download.

New Post: Last version of source

bdejager — Mon, 13 Jun 2011 18:33:23 GMT

Thanks for a great tool! I'm using this for reading on my eReader. I just found out the Patches have an improved version (fixed issues with images), than the latest release. But I was looking for the source code of the latest patch version. Would it be possible to upload/check-in the latest version of the source code (equals the patch versions).

Thanks in advance!

Regards, Bram

New Post: I created a hxs file, now how do I view it?

helpware — Wed, 13 Oct 2010 20:55:27 GMT

I've made a free HxS Viewer called H2Viewer -- http://helpware.net/mshelp2/h2viewer.htm

You can also use H2Reg and other utilities to register you help so it integrates with VS help. This takes more work though.

Rob

New Post: No ContentID Crash / Server 2008 R2 Section

CoSpi — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 07:16:05 GMT

Hi, I have same problem with Development Tools and Languages -> Visual Studio 2010 -> Quick Technology Finder -> Smart Device Development

New Post: Can't use this

hfrmobile — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 09:32:52 GMT

Maybe you try the old and good HTML HelpWorkshop (http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=00535334-c8a6-452f-9aa0-d597d16580cc&DisplayLang=en) ;-)

Works fine for me and it is also possible to call the "help compiler" via command line and so integrates wonderful into NAnt builds :o)

--hfrmobile

New Post: Can't use this

ronny_r — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 07:24:07 GMT

I can't use this tool at all

Shown nothing but blank screen (for both MSDN and Technet), and most menu are disabled

So... how to use this software?

New Post: Text missing from bullet lists and file fails to create if containing a space

salvatorik — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 03:13:11 GMT

Great tool. I did notice 2 peculiarities.

First, pages that have more than one bullet lose the text. For example, http://technet.microsoft.com/en-gb/library/ee332526.aspx looks the same except the section with bullets which only shows 2 bullets per line.

Second, naming the file with a space doesn't yield an error but the file isn't created.

New Post: No ContentID Crash / Server 2008 R2 Section

matteoBO — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 09:22:09 GMT

As in subjet I am receving that error in Package this when I am trying to dowwload the Server 2008 R2 section in Technet, probably it checks that field to recreate the structure to build the help file, anyway if does not find it, application crash, is it available a workaround or a solution?

Thank all.