What about the docs?

re: What about the docs?

wisemx — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 00:58:11 GMT

I'll spread the word..Thanks! ;-)

re: What about the docs?

tmilker — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 03:58:54 GMT

MSDN needs a major overhaul. It is has an extremely annoying interface. It is too cumbersome to click three or four times just to get information about a method or constructor in a class. The search constantly spits out the oldest versions of the documentation. It is too difficult to get search to spit out just documentation hits instead of forums, articles, blogs, whatever it can think of. None of the documentation is consistent, XNA is different from .NET, for instance. Examples need to be broken up into individual languages with options to remember your favorite language and collapse the rest. The annoying and extremely unhelpful tree on the left needs to be reorganized and made usable with the extremely long namespaces .NET has. I could go on and on. I use MSDN every day and I hate it more and more.

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re: What about the docs?

ccchai — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 05:02:20 GMT

I agree with tmilker, I read blog posts more than MSDN docs because MSDN contains too many links, I click here and click there nd still haven't get to the information I want.

I think the the SDK should include one Getting Started tutorial, and tons of how-to documentations. Because I always do searching with a specific problem in mind. Only until I have found a solution, I will study the specific properties, methods or events in greater details.