Date: any online help?

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Tia Carr

When I press F1 on Date, all I get is two paragraphs on the Date date type.
The intellisense feature indicates there are a few dozen methods and
properties associated with Date. Where can I get the online help for that?
Is it not documented?

I have the 2002 version of .NET. Does the 2003 version provide more
complete documentation? I also search for msdn online, but of no success.
The is a learning process for me to learn the online help of VS.NET.

I know that Intellisense provides a brief description of each
method/property which are sufficient most of the time. It's just that
sometimes you want to browse through the entire class. If there's no online
documentation, is there at least a tool that would extract the info from the
Intellisense and display them nicely.
 
Hi Cor,

Hm... Without filter, I get a lot of irrelevant matches. I really don't
care for the system types nor the unmanaged related info. I just want to
learn the VB class (Date, which wraps around datetime) quickly and see
what's available.

I didn't go through the entire list, but checking the first few indicates
so. Would you post both the help link (at the toolbar of the IDE e.g.
ms-help://...) and the msdn.com link.

TIA
 
Hi Tia,
Did you ever use "Help" and then Search, normaly it gives a bunch of
information.
In the search you can select what kind with "filtered by".
You can get the same information on "msdn.microsoft.com"
I hope this helps a little bit.
Cor
 
Tia Carr said:
When I press F1 on Date, all I get is two paragraphs on the Date date
type. The intellisense feature indicates there are a few dozen
methods and properties associated with Date. Where can I get the
online help for that? Is it not documented?

I have the 2002 version of .NET. Does the 2003 version provide
more complete documentation? I also search for msdn online, but of
no success. The is a learning process for me to learn the online help
of VS.NET.

I know that Intellisense provides a brief description of each
method/property which are sufficient most of the time. It's just
that sometimes you want to browse through the entire class. If
there's no online documentation, is there at least a tool that would
extract the info from the Intellisense and display them nicely.
Click to expand...

You are right, only two paragraphs are shown. The VB.NET data type "date" is
mapped to the Framework's "DateTime" data type. There you'll find more
information. The second link on the bottom of the short help you mentioned,
is a link to the "DateTime structure". You also get this help when
right-click on the word "date" in the code editor, select "go to defintion"
and the press <F1> in the object browser when the DateTime structure is
selected.
 
Hi Tia,

Some (general) tips on using the installed MSDN Help.

If you want a .NET class, eg dateTime, use the index and type
DateTime CL
This will take you straight to the class entry in the index.

If you are searching without filters, eg for Date, and want to get the
..NET Framework stuff, sort on the Location and all the .NET stuff is together
at the top. If however, you want the VB side of things, sort by Location and
go down to the bottom where Visual Basic Concepts can be found.

Or you can click on any search result that starts with Date and sort by
Title Then all the rubbish is sorted away and you have fewer entries to check
(though still plenty in the case of Date).

Regards,
Fergus
 
Thx Armin. The 'Go to Definition' tip is very helpful. :)

Date (VB only) and DateTime (both VB and C#) look identical to me. As a
matter of fact, right-click 'go to definition' of Date brings you to the
definition of DateTime. The VB Date appears to be an alias of the
System.DateTime.
 
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