Help, More Help, and Beyond Help

The Help database for Visual Studio is huge. Microsoft calls it the Developer Network Library and it covers nearly every topic related to programming in a Windows environment. This includes Windows itself, all the programming languages, the .NET Framework, database technology, Web server technology, browser technology, and a host of other topics. In short, finding Help articles that apply to a given question is seldom a problem. A more common problem is sifting through the hundreds of articles that match a given search.

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The Microsoft Developer Network (MSDN) Library is also available on the Web. Browse http://www.msdn.microsoft.com/library.

There are two ways to search for Help. The first involves the Dynamic ...

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