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    After years of using google.com to search for pages on msdn.com (damned the msdn search sucked big times), today I found what I was looking for quickly!! So it looks like they ended up scrapping that lame msdn search engine and used something serious. (Should be bing engine, I guess). :cool:

    You can't turn lead into gold, unless you've built yourself a nuclear plant.

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      After years of using google.com to search for pages on msdn.com (damned the msdn search sucked big times), today I found what I was looking for quickly!! So it looks like they ended up scrapping that lame msdn search engine and used something serious. (Should be bing engine, I guess). :cool:

      You can't turn lead into gold, unless you've built yourself a nuclear plant.

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      Single Step Debugger
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      The Online Documents Search works somehow. But the local help is even worse than the previous versions.

      The narrow specialist in the broad sense of the word is a complete idiot in the narrow sense of the word. Advertise here – minimum three posts per day are guaranteed.

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        After years of using google.com to search for pages on msdn.com (damned the msdn search sucked big times), today I found what I was looking for quickly!! So it looks like they ended up scrapping that lame msdn search engine and used something serious. (Should be bing engine, I guess). :cool:

        You can't turn lead into gold, unless you've built yourself a nuclear plant.

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        Shog9 0
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        They scrapped the internal search years ago for the Live Search engine. It still sucked. I agree, it does appear to have improved considerably of late. Now they just need to automatically redirect all the broken links to an internal search...

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          The Online Documents Search works somehow. But the local help is even worse than the previous versions.

          The narrow specialist in the broad sense of the word is a complete idiot in the narrow sense of the word. Advertise here – minimum three posts per day are guaranteed.

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          Pierre Leclercq
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          Deyan Georgiev wrote:

          local help is even worse than the previous versions

          It must be, because I never use it. But they haven't had a chance to update it so far. (Since they updated the online version). So will we get a mini-Bing or a local-bing coming up with VS 2010?

          You can't turn lead into gold, unless you've built yourself a nuclear plant.

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            After years of using google.com to search for pages on msdn.com (damned the msdn search sucked big times), today I found what I was looking for quickly!! So it looks like they ended up scrapping that lame msdn search engine and used something serious. (Should be bing engine, I guess). :cool:

            You can't turn lead into gold, unless you've built yourself a nuclear plant.

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            Jeff Hadfield
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            FWIW, The Code Project Add-In for VS2008 uses the live>bing engine to search msdn.microsoft.com in addition to codeproject.com (they're separate tabs).

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              The Online Documents Search works somehow. But the local help is even worse than the previous versions.

              The narrow specialist in the broad sense of the word is a complete idiot in the narrow sense of the word. Advertise here – minimum three posts per day are guaranteed.

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              Help 2.0 is so terribly broken that Help Tool providers said "no" to it, and MS labeled it "for internal use only". The worst thing about that is HTML Help 1.x would have needed only some rather minor fixes to make it scale better.

              Personally, I love the idea that Raymond spends his nights posting bad regexs to mailing lists under the pseudonym of Jane Smith. He'd be like a super hero, only more nerdy and less useful. [Trevel]
              | FoldWithUs! | sighist

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              • P Pierre Leclercq

                After years of using google.com to search for pages on msdn.com (damned the msdn search sucked big times), today I found what I was looking for quickly!! So it looks like they ended up scrapping that lame msdn search engine and used something serious. (Should be bing engine, I guess). :cool:

                You can't turn lead into gold, unless you've built yourself a nuclear plant.

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                Roger Wright
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                Dumb luck! Even a blind squirrel finds an occasional acorn.

                "A Journey of a Thousand Rest Stops Begins with a Single Movement"

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                  After years of using google.com to search for pages on msdn.com (damned the msdn search sucked big times), today I found what I was looking for quickly!! So it looks like they ended up scrapping that lame msdn search engine and used something serious. (Should be bing engine, I guess). :cool:

                  You can't turn lead into gold, unless you've built yourself a nuclear plant.

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                  Rajesh R Subramanian
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                  Just a thought. May be these days it's powered by Google? :laugh:

                  It is a crappy thing, but it's life -^ Carlo Pallini

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