On 5/23/05, Cameron Cole <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > There is no way Borland would even attempt to supply better .NET help.
> I think the MS help is just OK, but a friend who works on Whidbey told me
> they are improving the help interface.  I have a handy util that maps the
> command to the Delphi source so when I hit F1 it pops a google type search
> in the help and optionally loads the source to the command.  Nothing fancy,
> but useful and easy.

Is that the util from code central or your own?
 
> > They license microsoft's because MS does help well.
> Historically, MS has done help very poorly (Borland help was good, but not
> up-to-date).  

Well I'm floored by that. Have you checked out MSDN lately?
 
>Anyone remember classic VB help?  That thing was practically
> unusable.

never used vb

> > I hate getting the crashes that I do, but there is no way I'd go back
> > to D7 after using D2005 for so long.
> I use Castilia so 2005 didn't really have anything new for me.  Definatley
> couldn't justify the huge upgrade price.

I don't consider the upgrade price to be huge at all. Perhaps if
people don't program for a living with Delphi but I know that coffee
for the year costs more than the dev tools where I am.

cheers,
Jeremy

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