Introduction
Awful simple arrest of that pesky "service unavailable" message when attempting to reread one of those saved Favorites you made yesterday in hopes of re-referencing some Visual Studio Help content today.
Using the code
No code, just a procedure. Since "today's" Help facility is a whole new service any link/URL that was made yesterday to a ms.help item and stored in the Favorites menu has the wrong location segment (the form http://127.0.0.1:47873/help/x-xxxx(x?)/ms.help? etc). That segment has to be replaced with the timely "now". After attempting to open a stored Favorite link and getting the error message, copy this x-xxxxx segment from the error message location, hit the back button on the browser navigation and paste it over yesterdays bad link. Redirection to the same help item should now take place.
Example
Service Unavailable
HTTP Error 503. The service is unavailable
Yesterday help link: "1-4435"
http://127.0.0.1:55512/help/1-4436/ms.help?method=page&id=M%3aSYSTEM.ARRAY.GETVALUE(SYSTEM.INT32%5b%5d)&topicversion=100&topiclocale=EN-US&SQM=1&product=VS&productVersion=100&locale=EN-US
With a paste becomes: "1-4176"
http://127.0.0.1:55512/help/1-4176/ms.help?method=page&id=M%3aSYSTEM.ARRAY.GETVALUE(SYSTEM.INT32%5b%5d)&topicversion=100&topiclocale=EN-US&SQM=1&product=VS&productVersion=100&locale=EN-US
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