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

Open kirsan31 opened 1 year ago

kirsan31 commented 1 year ago

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 :(

Olina-Zhang commented 1 year ago

It is a known issue: https://github.com/microsoft/winforms-designer/issues/877 and https://github.com/microsoft/winforms-designer/issues/4799.

kirsan31 commented 1 year ago

Any details? Especially in terms of custom controls (https://github.com/microsoft/winforms-designer-extensibility/issues/4)?