GDI+ documentation

[Force Code]

Sorry for the newbie question. I downloaded the platform sdk from Microsoft to get the GDI+ header files and now I need some documentation. Is there any in the 2 gigabytes of krap they dump onto your system? MSDN.com is awfully slow, and I don't want to go to the World Wide Web every time I want a parameter description. There is a 'precompiled help file' in the platform sdk, 'gdicpp.hxs', and it contains GDI+ terms. However, I don't know how to open it . Drag it onto VC++ express, and it doesn't know how to open it either.

[Mark Salsbery]

In the SDK docs... Contents (tab)/Graphics and Multimedia/GDI+ Mark

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[Force Code]

I don't know where that is - what application do I need to open? I've downloaded VC++ express and the PlatformSDK for windows server R2 2003. Im running Windows 2000. What application opens the SDK docs? In VC++ express, if you search for GDI+, it goes to the internet and comes back and says it didn't find anything. I normally use Dev-C++. To me VC++ is such a joke. You open it, and immediately it starts searching the internet for "News" or what-not, even though you didn't ask for it.

[Mark Salsbery]

Force Code wrote:

What application opens the SDK docs?

When I installed the PSDK, a program folder was created called "Microsoft Platform SDK for Windows Server 2003 R2". In that folder is a "Platform SDK Documentation" shortcut.

Force Code wrote:

In VC++ express, if you search for GDI+, it goes to the internet and comes back and says it didn't find anything.

That's because the express edition is free. You get what you pay for :)

Force Code wrote:

To me VC++ is such a joke. You open it, and immediately it starts searching the internet for "News" or what-not, even though you didn't ask for it.

You can turn that off - go to Tools menu, Options.../Environment/Startup and select the appropriate item in the "At startup" combobox. Mark

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[Force Code]

Mark Salsbery wrote:

When I installed the PSDK, a program folder was created called "Microsoft Platform SDK for Windows Server 2003 R2". In that folder is a "Platform SDK Documentation" shortcut.

I have "Microsoft Platform SDK for Windows Server 2003 R2", but not "Platform SDK Documentation" shortcut. Did you have to do anything to "install" the Platform SDK after downloading it? There's a setup directory, but no setup.exe. AS I said, it downloaded gigabytes so I don't know what I'm missing.

[Mark Salsbery]

I have no idea what you downloaded and/or chose to install, sorry. I did the Microsoft ® Windows Server® 2003 R2 Platform SDK Web Install[^] and chose specifically to install the documentation - that's the part I needed the most. If you did the Windows® Server 2003 R2 Platform SDK Full Download[^] then you should have dowloaded the install EXE with it, AFAIK.

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