[dba-Tech] Visual Studio .NET "Help" - Good God!

Peter Brawley wrote:

>Steve,
>
>The best answer I know to the uselessness of VSHelp is Google, which with a
>few small well chosen quoted phrases most often finds just the MSDN (or
>"dotNetJunkies or whatever) page I need to read.
>
>PB
>
>  ----- Original Message -----
>  From: Steven W. Erbach
>  To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues
>  Sent: Monday, October 04, 2004 3:30 PM
>  Subject: [dba-Tech] Visual Studio .NET "Help" - Good God!
>
>
>  Dear Group,
>
>  Plunging into the Visual Studio .NET IDE. I had cause to use the Help
>system. I'm not sure I should have bothered. I was looking for something to
>do with Cascading Style Sheets and my paging through the index wound up in
>the Data listing. Out of curiosity I counted the number of index entries
>that start with the letters "data", beginning with "Data" and ending with
>"DataWriter". There are 5,656 index entries in that range. This is supposed
>to be helpful?
>
>  Are any of you subscribing to Visual Studio .NET or ASP.NET or VB.NET or
>ADO.NET lists? Any recommendations?
>
>  Regards,
>
>  Steve Erbach
>  Neenah, WI
>
>  "I belong to no organized party. I am a Democrat." - Will Rogers
>
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Yup! Google is the answer to MS-HELP's question: what the hell is this? :)

I would also highly recommend a video card such as the Matrox that can 
handle two monitors. I have a pair of 17" monitors on my .NET box and it 
is wonderful to program that way. I even do most of my development in 
Access on this box, since I can drag the code window onto one monitor 
and run the app itself on the other. WAY COOL way to code. The cards 
aren't that costly, and chances are everyone on this list has an extra 
monitor or three lying around.