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Is it just me, or is the MSDN help for the .NET Framework sometimes insanely obtuse? I'm normally better than average at help surfing, but often find myself screaming in frustration while hunting down an illusive topic that isn't a class or member description, but more a meta-topic. My recent case in point is the Regex language help, vs. the Regex Class help. The DJ's took pills to stay awakwe and play for seven days. - Jim Morrison, Black Polished Chrome.
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Is it just me, or is the MSDN help for the .NET Framework sometimes insanely obtuse? I'm normally better than average at help surfing, but often find myself screaming in frustration while hunting down an illusive topic that isn't a class or member description, but more a meta-topic. My recent case in point is the Regex language help, vs. the Regex Class help. The DJ's took pills to stay awakwe and play for seven days. - Jim Morrison, Black Polished Chrome.
I find MSDN useless except for looking up info on a specific class. I use google. Marc VS2005 Tips & Tricks -- contributions welcome!
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I find MSDN useless except for looking up info on a specific class. I use google. Marc VS2005 Tips & Tricks -- contributions welcome!
Funny, I use Google to search MSDN:laugh: Kind of sad that you have to use Google to find information about Microsoft products when they seem to be fighting each other so much right now:sigh: ------------------------------------- Do not do what has already been done. Absolute power corrupts absolutely.. but it ROCKS absolutely, too.
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Is it just me, or is the MSDN help for the .NET Framework sometimes insanely obtuse? I'm normally better than average at help surfing, but often find myself screaming in frustration while hunting down an illusive topic that isn't a class or member description, but more a meta-topic. My recent case in point is the Regex language help, vs. the Regex Class help. The DJ's took pills to stay awakwe and play for seven days. - Jim Morrison, Black Polished Chrome.
as with the IDE, the MSDN peaked with VC6. anything after that is a slow sloggy mess. Cleek | Image Toolkits | Thumbnail maker
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Is it just me, or is the MSDN help for the .NET Framework sometimes insanely obtuse? I'm normally better than average at help surfing, but often find myself screaming in frustration while hunting down an illusive topic that isn't a class or member description, but more a meta-topic. My recent case in point is the Regex language help, vs. the Regex Class help. The DJ's took pills to stay awakwe and play for seven days. - Jim Morrison, Black Polished Chrome.
I too, am quite good at looking for help, but MSDN makes me feel like a dork. Like somebody mentioned, I use Google to search on MSDN. :rolleyes: Cheers, Vikram.
"When I read in books about a "base class", I figured this was the class that was at the bottom of the inheritence tree. It's the "base", right? Like the base of a pyramid." - Marc Clifton.
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Is it just me, or is the MSDN help for the .NET Framework sometimes insanely obtuse? I'm normally better than average at help surfing, but often find myself screaming in frustration while hunting down an illusive topic that isn't a class or member description, but more a meta-topic. My recent case in point is the Regex language help, vs. the Regex Class help. The DJ's took pills to stay awakwe and play for seven days. - Jim Morrison, Black Polished Chrome.
MSDN search is not very good and their indexing is quite incomplete. It's easier to google for the msdn topic.
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Is it just me, or is the MSDN help for the .NET Framework sometimes insanely obtuse? I'm normally better than average at help surfing, but often find myself screaming in frustration while hunting down an illusive topic that isn't a class or member description, but more a meta-topic. My recent case in point is the Regex language help, vs. the Regex Class help. The DJ's took pills to stay awakwe and play for seven days. - Jim Morrison, Black Polished Chrome.
I use Google and various forums generally. Most of the extensibility stuff in MSDN is so poorly documented I need to find external info anyway, so why waste time on the middle man? Sad but true... Anna :rose: Currently working mostly on: Visual Lint :cool: Anna's Place | Tears and Laughter "Be yourself - not what others think you should be" - Marcia Graesch "Anna's just a sexy-looking lesbian tart" - A friend, trying to wind me up. It didn't work.
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I find MSDN useless except for looking up info on a specific class. I use google. Marc VS2005 Tips & Tricks -- contributions welcome!
Try this cool macro... http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000428.html[^] Kevin
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Is it just me, or is the MSDN help for the .NET Framework sometimes insanely obtuse? I'm normally better than average at help surfing, but often find myself screaming in frustration while hunting down an illusive topic that isn't a class or member description, but more a meta-topic. My recent case in point is the Regex language help, vs. the Regex Class help. The DJ's took pills to stay awakwe and play for seven days. - Jim Morrison, Black Polished Chrome.
Personally I find MSDN quite useful for 99% of cases and I never use Google search. -------------------------------- Human stupidity is infinite.
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Is it just me, or is the MSDN help for the .NET Framework sometimes insanely obtuse? I'm normally better than average at help surfing, but often find myself screaming in frustration while hunting down an illusive topic that isn't a class or member description, but more a meta-topic. My recent case in point is the Regex language help, vs. the Regex Class help. The DJ's took pills to stay awakwe and play for seven days. - Jim Morrison, Black Polished Chrome.
What's even more fun is when you "find" what you're looking for and start using it only to realize it's the ASP.NET version and it's quite the same as the Forms version, or the other way around. Anyone who thinks he has a better idea of what's good for people than people do is a swine. - P.J. O'Rourke
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I find MSDN useless except for looking up info on a specific class. I use google. Marc VS2005 Tips & Tricks -- contributions welcome!
Yup... I agree...Google it is... :) Bikash Rai
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as with the IDE, the MSDN peaked with VC6. anything after that is a slow sloggy mess. Cleek | Image Toolkits | Thumbnail maker
Chris Losinger wrote:
as with the IDE, the MSDN peaked with VC6. anything after that is a slow sloggy mess.
I totally agree with Chris Losinger. You have an apple and me too. We exchange those and We have an apple each. You have an idea and me too. We exchange those and We have two ideas each.