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Brendan Tompkins [MVP] » VS.NET Help Lacking or am I spoiled by Google?
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VS.NET Help Lacking or am I spoiled by Google?

When I search for “DataView“, I get 500 entries and I have to scroll down to the bottom to find the main class reference page.  I cant help thinking that if MS got together with Google, I could type “dahta veew” and it would politely say, “Did you mean System.DataView” and take me directly to the home page for the DataView class.  I know. This is too much to ask, but wouldn't it be cool?

-Brendan

Posted 12-30-2003 10:27 AM by Brendan Tompkins

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Jesse Ezell wrote re: VS.NET Help Lacking or am I spoiled by Google?
on 12-30-2003 5:39 AM
Google will give you more than 500 :-).

If DataView is in your code, try the context sensitive help. Otherwise, go to the index. Search sucks.
Carl wrote re: VS.NET Help Lacking or am I spoiled by Google?
on 01-04-2004 4:55 AM
I think expecting VisualStudio internal search capabilities to be comparable to Google is grasping.

Google's entire focus is earch technology. So it BETTER perform as good as it does.
Brendan Tompkins wrote re: VS.NET Help Lacking or am I spoiled by Google?
on 01-05-2004 1:09 AM
Carl. Agreed. But, VS.NET help could throw us a bone, and if we search for DataView, at least give us a "Best Bets" pane or something like that.

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