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Around ten years ago I would have agreed, MSDN was fairly nice, pretty comprehensive even if a bit full of seemingly autogenerated descriptions like "FrobnicateBar: Frobnicates the bar and return result" at the edges. Nowadays? Not so much.



With MSDN docs the older the doc the better it is. Pick something from the early days of win32 and it is a 10 page doc, very well done. Pick something they made up last month and you usually get very basic things. It has been that way for a long time. I remember the orig .NET docs were terrible to use. They have improved decently over the years. I can not prove it but I suspect the docs are only improved when a support case necessitates it.




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