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I always use external help in VS.NET cause I often open 3 or more help document explorers, each on different matter. What about the Dynamic Help - it is boring and diverts.
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I answered "Via the help Help Contents, Index or Search page". I sometimes have two or three MSDN instances running because if I search multiple things I want to have them all visible.
Best regards,
Alexandru Savescu
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Thats one thing I like about the new MSDN, right click a link and you can choose to open a new tab or an entirely new window. This might have been in the older MSDN but I never needed to do that before so I never looked 
James
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James T. Johnson wrote:
This might have been in the older MSDN
If it was, i never found it. And i wanted it quite often 
The single nicest thing IMHO about the new MSDN is the ability to open up topics directly in IE, complete with a common set of favorites. Considering some of the topics are *huge*, with big gobs of DHTML, being able to let a browser window load in the background while reading a different topic is quite nice. 
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Since I still have the Oct 2001 MSDN (can't go any newer, 'cause MS screwed it up after that), I tend to use the Platform SDK instead, especially when looking up newer APIs from 2K or XP. Trouble is, it's not integrated AT ALL with VC, so I have to Alt-Tab to it and search manually.
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MSDN Oct 2001 ain't that great on its own. A lot of the links between MFC and the corresponding SDK stuff are broken as well. The last one that was reliable and complete was Apr 2001.
"Think of it as evolution in action." - 'Oath of Fealty' by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle
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I use the November 2001 version of the Platform SDK (no MSDN), and I just Alt+Tab to the documentation window.
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I use VS.NET at home ( but VC6 at work ). Why do the questions assume everyone has .NET ?
Christian
I am completely intolerant of stupidity. Stupidity is, of course, anything that doesn't conform to my way of thinking. - Jamie Hale - 29/05/2002
Remember that amateurs built the ark. Professionals built the Titanic.
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Christian Graus wrote:
Why do the questions assume everyone has .NET
The question doesn't. F1 works in VS6, Searching the Index and contents works in VS6. VS.NET simply offers more options so I include them here for those who have VS.NET.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
I spent a minute looking at my own code by accident. I was thinking "What the hell is this guy doing?" - @Logan
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Fair enough. It just seemed like a list of VS.NET options, and my option was not there -> use the start menu to run MSDN.
How about next week asking how many people hate the new format MSDN, which is set up so everything is hard to find and hard to follow. Oh, and a lot of the useful stuff has been deprecated.
Christian
I am completely intolerant of stupidity. Stupidity is, of course, anything that doesn't conform to my way of thinking. - Jamie Hale - 29/05/2002
Remember that amateurs built the ark. Professionals built the Titanic.
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And you can't enlarge the fonts anymore... (boo hoo boo hoo)
Noam Ben Haim
Web Developer
Intel
noam.ben.chaim@intel.com
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Christian Graus wrote:
How about next week asking how many people hate the new format MSDN, which is set up so everything is hard to find and hard to follow. Oh, and a lot of the useful stuff has been deprecated.
because he already knows the answer to that. Everybody hates the new format MSDN.  Unlike the last big change, this one isn't growing on me.
Michael
Logic, my dear Zoe, merely enables one to be wrong with authority. - The Doctor
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We still use VS 6 at work and the MSDN.Net has become a real pain. Not only do the links from Visual Studio no longer work. But many links internal to the Library DVD are broken.
e.g. earlier I was looking at a function in CComboBoxEx class and it refered to the extended styles and provided a link. CLICK and up comes a message that it can find it because the filters I have set may be too restricted. How search everything is too restricted I fail to see but then I'm an old timer these days and perhaps definitions have changed. So for me it has become a proverbial pain in the butt.
Happy programming!!
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Christian Graus wrote:
Oh, and a lot of the useful stuff has been deprecated.
The same is true of the online MSDN. I find it nearly useless now, since everything related to VS6 seems to have been deleted. It will be a long time before I can afford VS.NET, and I suspect that's true for many of us. I wonder how Borland's products are looking these days, since MS no longer supports its customers?
I Drowned Schroedinger's Stupid Cat!
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great now i know definitely not to switch over to .net!
as far as borland goes, last i heard they were still blowing many goats and making microsoft vc 6 look like the milk lady.
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Christian Graus wrote:
How about next week asking how many people hate the new format MSDN
I'd then also include the (in comparison) lightning-fast and lean MVB viewer from MSVC 4.2. Anything after that is IMHO just an excercise in memory, disk and CPU waste. Not to mention it's buggy.
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Mike Nordell wrote:
Not to mention it's buggy.
I especially love the cancel button that doesn't do anything.
Christian
I am completely intolerant of stupidity. Stupidity is, of course, anything that doesn't conform to my way of thinking. - Jamie Hale - 29/05/2002
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I am truly distressed to see you remove the other part of your sig. I thought you'd have more staying power than that.
"...the staggering layers of obscenity in your statement make it a work of art on so many levels." - Jason Jystad, 10/26/2001
"Half the reason people switch away from VB is to find out what actually goes on.. and then like me they find out that they weren't quite as good as they thought - they've been nannied." - Alex, 13 June 2002
Please review the Legal Disclaimer in my bio.
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Well, I changed it right away to the contents of the email he sent me, then I felt bad because it is 'not good' to publicise stuff that's come via email.
Christian
I am completely intolerant of stupidity. Stupidity is, of course, anything that doesn't conform to my way of thinking. - Jamie Hale - 29/05/2002
Remember that amateurs built the ark. Professionals built the Titanic.
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Christian Graus wrote:
I felt bad because it is 'not good' to publicise stuff that's come via email.
Where is the this email!? I would love to see what he wrote.
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It was my sig in the post that started all this. I was so mad, I replaced his comment with the contents of his email and posted to say what had happened.
Christian
I am completely intolerant of stupidity. Stupidity is, of course, anything that doesn't conform to my way of thinking. - Jamie Hale - 29/05/2002
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