Re: VS 2005 Help, SQL 2005 Help,and .NET 2.0 Help is very UNhelpful and poorly tested.....completely CRAPPY

While I have only dealt with the VS 2005 using the Express products,
overall, I like some of the changes that have been made. For the most part,
the organization is different and takes some getting used to.

Now, so that you don't take me for a Kool-Aid drinker, I will say that
filtering has always been difficult to get it to work the way that's
intuitive; the VS 2005 help when installed with the Express products can be
very unpredictable about what you get (when installing VWD Express on one
computer, it also installed with VB 2005 help even though I never installed
VB 2005); and the navigation is still goofy to the point where if you use
the links within the articles that it turns off the navigation altogether.
An additional point about the navigation is that the next and previous
toolbar buttons are not there by default, so I had to add them. I also have
been frustrated by the language boxes, but this has been a problem even with
the last help system.

With the above said, overall, I truly like the new look of the Help system.
Personally, I would recommend that you spend more time with it and try to
adjust to the changes. It can be frustrating at first, especially since
it's different, but eventually, long term use should make easier to get
around.

As for your MVP comment, if you have to write that along with complaining
about a new help system that's not ever 6 months old in production usage,
maybe you need to look into the mirror first when looking for programmers
who are not good enough. Personally, I think the first rule of good
programming is flexibility and the second is having an open mind to
change...but that's only my opinion. (No, I'm not an MVP....yet.)

Moving forward, I would suggest that you look at the .NET SDK documentation.
I have used this extensively with 1.x and as well with 2.0. While I'm still
getting used to the new outline for 2.0, I have found it to be very helpful,
even more so when compared to the 1.x SDK. (I think the examples have
improved from version to version.)
--
Christopher A. Reed
"The oxen are slow, but the earth is patient."

"dret" <dity@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Have any of you really used the Help of SQL2005, VS 2005 and .NET 2.0?
> It's a different interface but I still can't find what I want. Lots of
> properties and methods name but hardly any explanation or examples.....
> The REMARKS section is buried somewhere in the middle and you have to
> train yourself to look for it.
>
> Trying to get to a contructor or overload method is completely confusing .
>
> Furthermore, the SQL 2005 Help completely SUCKS... Because of the addition
> of the CLR in SQL Server when you do a help for something, your search
> results are interwoven with .NET CLR stuff instead of more Transact -
> SQL....and SQL Server 2000
>
> Secondly if you attempt to filter it, you get essentially no
> results....not to mention you have uncheck a dozen boxes just to get
> there..and it's only for one search...say if you close the window...you
> AGAIN have to do this...
>
> This is really bad.....
>
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> If you are an MVP and want to defend this new Help....think twice before
> trying to say something nice about it in order to get noticed by Microsoft
> so you can get hired by them as a "yes" man programmer. If you are always
> going to close your eyes to the truth...why not try the marketing
> department? you are obviously not a good enough programmer to get a job or
> keep a job anyway and that's why you have all this time to be an MVP....
>
>
>


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