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F1 (help) not working on control's properties #9151

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kirsan31 opened this issue May 20, 2023 · 2 comments
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F1 (help) not working on control's properties #9151

kirsan31 opened this issue May 20, 2023 · 2 comments
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area-VSDesigner Windows Forms out-of-proc designer related issues

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@kirsan31
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kirsan31 commented May 20, 2023

Environment

Microsoft Visual Studio Community 2022
Version 17.6.0
VisualStudio.17.Release/17.6.0+33712.159
Microsoft .NET Framework
Version 4.8.09032

.NET version

6.0, 7.0

Did this work in a previous version of Visual Studio and/or previous .NET release?

Yes in .Net framework designer

Issue description

When you press F1 on any property in designer's propertygrid you must be redirected to appropriate msdn page. But currently designer trying to use proxy object for this case. For example Form.Text property:
Expexted
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.windows.forms.form.text?f1url=%3FappId%3DDev16IDEF1%26l%3DEN-US%26k%3Dk(System.Windows.Forms.Form.Text)%3Bk(System.Windows.Forms.Form)%3Bk(VS.Properties)%26rd%3Dtrue&view=windowsdesktop-7.0

Current
https://msdn.microsoft.com/query/dev16.query?appId=Dev16IDEF1&l=EN-US&k=k(Microsoft.DotNet.DesignTools.Client.Proxies.ControlProxy`1 .... very very long string and as result:

The resource you are looking for has been removed, had its name changed, or is temporarily unavailable.

This is also a problem for custom control designers. I've asked same question here, but never got answered :(

@kirsan31 kirsan31 added the untriaged The team needs to look at this issue in the next triage label May 20, 2023
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It is a known issue: https://github.com/microsoft/winforms-designer/issues/877 and https://github.com/microsoft/winforms-designer/issues/4799.

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Any details? Especially in terms of custom controls (microsoft/winforms-designer-extensibility#4)?

@JeremyKuhne JeremyKuhne added area-VSDesigner Windows Forms out-of-proc designer related issues and removed untriaged The team needs to look at this issue in the next triage labels May 23, 2023
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