I am looking for a Visual Studio 2012 plugin / method that will allow me to access the .NET Framework 4.5 section of the MSDN library without an internet connection.
Any suggestions on how I can achieve this will be greatly appreciated.
You should just be able to install the Help Viewer (if you haven't already got it).
In Visual Studio, under the "Help" menu, set the "Help Preference" to "Launch in Help Viewer" - it should download the relevant content for you if you haven't already got it.
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