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Old December 4th, 2006, 11:00 AM
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    The documents in Help system are really hard to understand sometimes.Some of the code are not even executable.
    The Help system is too complicated for a beginner.

 
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It seems that way, but you just don't understand the code enough yet. I had the same problem, but now I can look at it and decipher it's meaning.

I am by no means a professional programmer, I have just started learning VB and I can say, that once you understand what the help files mean, then they become a huge help.

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IMHO, it's not just the novice issue.
To my way of thinking, every topic should start with the namespace the topic's subject derives from, and a simple description of what the gizmo is designed to do.

Though many topics do the second, they do so so tersely that it is actually no help at all.

I despise .NET's help. VB6's help was much more helpful. I realize that this is a monumental technical writing undertaking, but that doesn't change the judgement that .NET's help is virtually incompetently written.

I'm with yshcshc (what does [u]that</u> mean?) on this one...





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