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nes8bit
nes8bit
Recently it seems as if the MSDN search is broken. I can''t seem to find help on common API calls when I need to find out a parameter. Stuff like help on the the uxtheme dll or even simple things such as SetWindowLong... Anyone else experience problems with MSDN recently? --------------------------------------------- Total Instant Messenger. It''s better than AOL.
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nickm
nickm
And google still has all these pages in cache, which is even faster than MSDN (for me at least)
Xgkkp
Xgkkp
Talking about cache, I noticed google also caches stuff behind pay-to-enter barriers. Like Ign.
clrscr
clrscr
They didn’t break it, they added features!

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Lohrno
Lohrno
Yeah, with C# and all they have put all the useful stuff on Visual C++ 6.0 in the back pages. You have to go to the archive I think.

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Arild Fines
Arild Fines
How to search MSDN using google: SetWindowLong site:msdn.microsoft.com
Much better than the MS search engine.

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clrscr
clrscr
while it was not perfect it did its job before, now it just plain does not work

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elendil67
elendil67
According to John Dvorak (I think his name is), a PC Magazine columnist, "Most experts navigate the Microsoft website with Google".

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mutex
mutex
With my broadband connection, I downloaded the entire Platform SDK instead together with documentation. I use that in conjunction with the MSDN documentation that came with Visual C++. It's certainly faster as I don't have to rely on the Internet for documentation.

As an additional bonus, the SDK comes with updated headers and libraries too.

Platform SDK

EDIT: Unclosed tag disrupting formating


[edited by - michalson on August 1, 2002 8:58:34 AM]

Sandman
Sandman
quote:
Original post by mutex
With my broadband connection, I downloaded the entire Platform SDK instead together with documentation. I use that in conjunction with the MSDN documentation that came with Visual C++. It''s certainly faster as I don''t have to rely on the Internet for documentation.

As an additional bonus, the SDK comes with updated headers and libraries too.


This is all very well, but there are some omissions in the MSDN installation that comes with VC6. The online one is usually more up to date.

Also, which twit screwed up the tables in this thread?

PouyaCat
PouyaCat
quote:
Original post by mutex
As an additional bonus, the SDK comes with updated headers and libraries too.
< a href="http://www.microsoft.com/msdownload/platformsdk/sdkupdate/>Platform SDK


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