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billy

2004-11-27, 8:55 am

I've got a brand new installation of Visual Studio .NET 2003 and the MSDN that came on that same DVD. I've installed this
combination a million times and really never had any issues. Today though I have one where, when I do a search (MSDN alone or within
devenv), the results listed are all titled: a - that's it, just an 'a' with nothing else. So, if I get 28 hits, there will be 28
rows of 'a' but each one I double click on will bring me to a help item - and that wouldn't be so bad if I new the name of the item
I was selecting. Has anyone ever seen this? I did a deja/google search on this before posting and one guy had a similar problem, but
after the 'a' I think that he had the title next to it as if the 'a' was in place of the bullet.

Any ideas? I tried to change the font a few times, but I just ended up with a big ass "Arial"ized 'a' :) One last thing, on this
install I ran into one problem which was that I had to regsrv32.exe on odt.olb (or something like that). I'm not sure what that is
and/or if it's related to my 'a' problem, but that did happen. Thanks, bye.

~billy




Darren Parker [MS]

2004-12-20, 3:55 pm

Hey Billy,

You might try to regsrv32 on hxds.dll , I think that may fix your problem.

Darren Parker
Microsoft

"billy" <billy_devXX@cox.net> wrote in message
news:T3Xpd.176059$hj.164889@fed1read07...
> I've got a brand new installation of Visual Studio .NET 2003 and the MSDN
> that came on that same DVD. I've installed this
> combination a million times and really never had any issues. Today though
> I have one where, when I do a search (MSDN alone or within
> devenv), the results listed are all titled: a - that's it, just an 'a'
> with nothing else. So, if I get 28 hits, there will be 28
> rows of 'a' but each one I double click on will bring me to a help item -
> and that wouldn't be so bad if I new the name of the item
> I was selecting. Has anyone ever seen this? I did a deja/google search on
> this before posting and one guy had a similar problem, but
> after the 'a' I think that he had the title next to it as if the 'a' was
> in place of the bullet.
>
> Any ideas? I tried to change the font a few times, but I just ended up
> with a big ass "Arial"ized 'a' :) One last thing, on this
> install I ran into one problem which was that I had to regsrv32.exe on
> odt.olb (or something like that). I'm not sure what that is
> and/or if it's related to my 'a' problem, but that did happen. Thanks,
> bye.
>
> ~billy
>
>
>
>



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