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Hello everybody,
it took me a while to realize, that the online help and the locally
installed help differs in up-to-dateness. Now I updated the docs with
the MSDN Subscription Library DVD December 2006 and some (all?) of the
docs seems more up-to-date.
Now the problem:
I setup the help app to show only the "Smart Device Development" related
stuff. If I enter "DrawIcon" in the index search, I get the Win32 API
calls, but not the .NET CF info.
When I look up "Graphics.Draw", neither "DrawIcon" nor "DrawImage" show
up. When I look up the "Graphics" class member info, the docs now show,
that there is a "DrawIcon" available with .NET CF
So I conclude, that although the docs have been updated, the index has
not.
I prefer the local docs, because I am addicted to the "sync with table
of contents" option. In order to check, which methods can be used, I
want reliably info from the help system. I the particular case, I wasn't
aware that there actually is a function "DrawIcon", which made me look a
bit like a fool, when my boss asked me, why I didn't use this function
in a praticular case.
BTW: The installed base is
* Visual Studio 2005 (while I write this, I am installing SP1 for VS)
* MSDN Library December 2006
VS and MSDN "speak" English, whereas the help app "speaks" German, (with
all the MSDN docs in English - it's easier to read the original docs
than try to figure out from the German translation what the English
orignal could have been. Did they use Babelfish?)
I know, this problem is more concerned with VS than with .NET CF, but I
didn't know where else to post, and maybe some of you had similar
problems.
TIA
Tilman
it took me a while to realize, that the online help and the locally
installed help differs in up-to-dateness. Now I updated the docs with
the MSDN Subscription Library DVD December 2006 and some (all?) of the
docs seems more up-to-date.
Now the problem:
I setup the help app to show only the "Smart Device Development" related
stuff. If I enter "DrawIcon" in the index search, I get the Win32 API
calls, but not the .NET CF info.
When I look up "Graphics.Draw", neither "DrawIcon" nor "DrawImage" show
up. When I look up the "Graphics" class member info, the docs now show,
that there is a "DrawIcon" available with .NET CF
So I conclude, that although the docs have been updated, the index has
not.
I prefer the local docs, because I am addicted to the "sync with table
of contents" option. In order to check, which methods can be used, I
want reliably info from the help system. I the particular case, I wasn't
aware that there actually is a function "DrawIcon", which made me look a
bit like a fool, when my boss asked me, why I didn't use this function
in a praticular case.
BTW: The installed base is
* Visual Studio 2005 (while I write this, I am installing SP1 for VS)
* MSDN Library December 2006
VS and MSDN "speak" English, whereas the help app "speaks" German, (with
all the MSDN docs in English - it's easier to read the original docs
than try to figure out from the German translation what the English
orignal could have been. Did they use Babelfish?)
I know, this problem is more concerned with VS than with .NET CF, but I
didn't know where else to post, and maybe some of you had similar
problems.
TIA
Tilman