As I’m sure every other developer who uses VS.NET 2003 to develop non-CE Windows applications, I’ve come to hate Windows CE help info. Pretty much every function help that pops up is for WindowsCE. Now, I wouldn’t mind that much if you could trust MS to keep functions the same across platforms - but you can’t. WinCE and WinXP functionality is often subtly different.
So what to do about this? One suggestion I’ve heard a lot are custom filters for the help. However, I really don’t want to set a filter every single time I need help. After a lot of digging around, I found an answer that suggested deleting WinCE help files. How to find them? Easy - whenever you get CE help, you can look at the help URL, find the offending file, and delete it.
That, however, is quite tedious. After doing this a couple of times, I noticed an interesting pattern - every CE helpfile contains the string “wce”. So all you need to do is go to your helpfile folder, create a “Hide” subfolder (just in case), and move *wce*.hxi into that folder. Done. No more annoying CE help.