I know about MSDN having been a subscriber for a decade.. but.. I am working mostly with open source software nowadays and I am enjoying keeping local copies of documentation bundles for quick offline reference without having to pay for DVDs (e.g. MySQL, Java, Python, even Perl and PHP). Is there anything like this for the .NET? I mean: from Microsoft, not from Mono or similar "ports"...
Thank you! I am downloading "MSDN Library for Visual Studio 2008 SP1" as I type yet I fear this will still be an ISO which installs an app to be run under Windows... I am on a Mac and would have loved an index.html page with a JavaScript search engine... (I have noticed that even Apple's Xcode doc bundles can be browsed outside the program with a simple browser and a link of this type: com.apple.adc.documentation.AppleiPhone3_1.iPhoneLibrary.docset Contents/Resources/Documents/navigation/index.html). Let's hope I am wrong and this ISO has a "root doc folder" I will be able to browse! :-)
Maroloccio
2010-07-29 23:36:36
Outcome: MSDN is golden on Windows, less so on my Mac. hxs support still sub-optimal.
Maroloccio
2010-07-31 06:11:33