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You can integrate ActiveReports Help into Visual Studio 2010 on your computer and have access to the ActiveReports Guide any time you work in Visual Studio 2010.

1. From the Visual Studio Help menu, select Manage Help Settings.
2. In the Help Library Manager window that appears, click Install content from disk.
3. Click the Browse button to navigate to the ActiveReports 8 Help manifest file, click Open to add the file and then click Next.

   Note: By default, the file (helpcontentsetup.msha) is located at C:\Program Files\ComponentOne\ActiveReports 8\Help Or C:\Program Files (x86)\ComponentOne\ActiveReports 8\Help (on a 64-bit Windows operating system).

4. Click the Add action next to ActiveReports and then click the Update button to start updating local library.
5. In the displayed Security Alert dialog, click Yes.
6. On the Updating Local Library page that appears, click Finish to complete the ActiveReports Help installation in Visual Studio 2010.

   Note: If you still receive the 404 error message when you try to open the ActiveReports Help, we recommend that you restart the Help Library Agent.

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