MSDN Library

I did not intend this blog just to be a place to bitch about crappy development tools, but the nonsensical, painful-to-use designs of this stuff has literally wasted calender days for me.

At some point, I think it was Visual Studio 2000, Microsoft put all the online documentation for development tools, APIs, language specifications and everything into one "library". This pile of documents is MSDN Library. It was not a great idea, but not terrible.
What WAS terrible is that they shuffled it all together. So any single "page" can have stuff mixed together from all over Microsoft. The index is useless, and the help search is not merely "simple" it is perfectly moronic. Maybe there is a special syntax for searching MSDN library. Guess where that syntax would be documented?

Hey I just found it! That only took a week.

"Search Syntax

In previous versions, multiple word search strings, such as "word1 word2," were equivalent to typing "word1 AND word2", which returned only topics that contained all of the individual words in the search text. For this release, the search engine interprets multiple word searches as equivalent to "word1 OR word2", which returns topics that include any of the words in the search text. You can change the default search behavior to use the AND interpretation by unselecting the option Include partial matches in local search results on General, Help, Options Dialog Box.
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Thanks, guys. :(