The Krypton installers on Vista do not currently install the documentation into the Visual Studio 2005 help system nor the helper project and item templates. I hope to fix this for the next release. In the meantime you can use the following simple steps to manually register the help…

Open a command prompt with administrator privileges
- Click the Start Button
- Type ‘cmd’ in the search box
- Right click ‘cmd’ entry and use ‘Run as administrator’

Navigate to the ‘\Help\Help2Install’ subdirectory
- cd ‘c:\Program Files\Component Factory Pty Ltd\Krypton Toolkit 2.5.1\Help\Help2Install’

Run ‘RegisterHelp2.bat .’
- Yes that is a dot as the batch file parameter

View the installed help collection
- Run Krypton Explorer
- Select the ‘Resources’ option
- Select the ‘Documentation’ hyperlink

To manually add the templates you can use the following steps…

Find the installation directory of Visual Studio
- Open up the registry using ‘regedit’
- Open up ‘HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\VisualStudio\8.0’
- Note the directory of the ‘InstallDir’ value

Copy template zip files to correct subdirectory
- Copy *ProjectCS.zip files to ‘[InstallDir]\ProjectTemplates\CSharp\Windows’
- Copy the other .zip files to ‘[InstallDir]\ItemTemplates\CSharp’

Ask Visual Studio to install the templates
- Click the Start Button
- Type ‘cmd’ in the search box
- Right click ‘cmd’ entry and use ‘Run as administrator’
- Change directory to [InstallDir]
- Run ‘devenv.exe /installvstemplates’

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