Corrupt EA_VSIP.chm file

[laanbroek]

The EA_VSIP.chm help file for MDG Integration for Visual Studio 2005 (in MDGIntegrationVSHelp.zip) which can be downloaded from http://www.sparxsystems.com.au/products/mdg_integrate.html seems corrupt.

I get the contents in the left pane, but any topic I click results in 'This program cannot display the webpage' in the right pane.

I think I do have the latest version of HTML Help on Windows XP (hh.exe 5.2.3790.2453 / hhctrl.ocx 5.2.3790.2847).
Note that the version distributed by Sparx is very old (and the hhctrl.ocx with it has a 'vulnarability'), so it should not even be distributed here.

Can somebody at Sparx fix this issue?

Regards,
Ruud

[laanbroek]

And no... it is not on a net work drive (which does give the same symptoms).

It is just on a local drive.


Ruud

[Oliver Michalski]

Hi Ruud,
the chm file works fine for me. In your case Win XP blocked active content. Check the security properties from EA_VSIP.chm

Regards Oliver  

[«Midnight»]

Also, if you are using IE 7.1 (read that carefully, I'm talking about the browser, not EA 7.0) you may be blocking some files, compiled HTML help among them.

Search this forum for an advice on this (I've forgotten which thread it was, but I did find it be searching). There was advice for unblocking these files.

Also, check the IE trusted files settings - once again I don't have the setting at hand, as IE 7 is not on this machine.

David

[KP]

Due to a security issue with the Microsoft CHM format, Microsoft has decided that Internet Explorer will silently block downloaded CHM files. If you used Internet Explorer to download EA.chm, then your CHM file will be blocked. To unblock it, Right-Click it and select Properties. There should be an Unblock button at the bottom of the dialog. Click this button.

[«Midnight»]

Thanks Neil,

I simply could not remember the keywords to find the thread, nor did I have the time to do another search.

David

[laanbroek]

Due to a security issue with the Microsoft CHM format, Microsoft has decided that Internet Explorer will silently block downloaded CHM files. If you used Internet Explorer to download EA.chm, then your CHM file will be blocked. To unblock it, Right-Click it and select Properties. There should be an Unblock button at the bottom of the dialog. Click this button.

Thanks, that helped.