Help on Help

[Quercus]

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[Divil]

If I type Me.BindingContext, put the cursor on it and press F1, I get a page about the Forms BindingContext property. There isnt much information there but it says it overrides the Controls property of the same name, with a link to that topic. I click on it, and it seems to have a wealth of information on the property.

 

[Quercus]

It would appear that you are getting linked to a different place than I. If I type Me.BindingContext and press F1, I get a page about BindingContext class members. Its still not the property Im looking for.

There are many links on this page, and those links all contain a wealth of information. But the point is, you still have to hunt for answers. In VS6, the system gave you the answers (in most cases) with the first key stroke.

Even in your case where the system returned the BindingContext property (as opposed to the class as it does for me), where on this page does it tell you that the Item member is the default member? It doesnt. You can only figure this by hunting and trail. I only figured this one out when I stumbled accross it.

All in all, I still find this system very confusing.

 

[mutant]

I found VS6 msdn help to be worse than .NETs. Maybe you have to hunt it down but the number of info is just huge. In vb6 i used help and sometimes only few sentences came up.