Classic Coexistance and F1 Help

[Karl E. Peterson]

Hi Folks --

We've all heard the assurances, by Ari Bixhorn as well as others, that Classic VB
will coexist peacefully with VFred on a development machine for the foreseeable
future, right? Well, did anyone else read the preview of the Jan2002 MSDN in this
latest (Oct2001) release? Snipped:

"When installing the MSDN Library, you may designate it as the preferred document
collection for F1 Help and general documentation Help for Microsoft Visual Studio
..NET. (The MSDN Library contains the Help files and documentation set for all Visual
Studio .NET products.) We strongly recommend this option so you may benefit from the
added powerful features of the new MSDN Library."

Notice, no mention -- whatsoever -- of Visual Studio 6. New releases of MSDN won't
provide F1 help for VS6, so you'll have to have multiple MSDN installs if you want to
do parallel development (with Help available).

Question: Anyone bothered by that?

Later... Karl
--
[Microsoft Basic: 1976-2001, RIP]

[Phil Weber]

> Question: Anyone bothered by that?

Karl: Not at all; disk space is beyond cheap. Or, if you prefer, you can
access the .NET and/or VB6 documentation online at
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library .
---
Phil Weber

[Mike Mitchell]

On Tue, 30 Oct 2001 11:40:33 -0800, "Phil Weber"
<pweber@_fawcette.com> wrote:

>Karl: Not at all; disk space is beyond cheap. Or, if you prefer, you can
>access the .NET and/or VB6 documentation online at
>http://msdn.microsoft.com/library .

Some times I think you guys are not living in the real world. The VB6
help is bad enough, both slow in loading and awful to find anything
in, but to suggest readng it over the web, well, once again I am
gobsmacked! I would recommend those who do continue with VB6 but wish
to experiment with <spit>VB.NET</spit> just run two computers. I have
four at the moment, including the Linux box.

MM

[Willy Van den Driessche]

I'm not bothered by space requirements.
I just don't get help in .NET. I'm an absolute configuration disaster so
maybe now I have something to look for.
--
Van den Driessche Willy
For a work in progress :
http://users.skynet.be/wvdd2/index.html