Microsoft .... what have you done (to VS2010 Help section) ?

[ThermoSight]

Oh Microsoft ... Not AGAIN !

Shall I chalk up the new VS2010 'HELP' format to your policy of "Innovation for the sake of innovation" ?

Truly, MS, what was wrong with the VS2008's 'Help" functionality ? I enter the topic I'm interested in into the text box and am immediately presented with everything I ever wanted to know about the designated control, class, event, or whatever, and all of it easily accessible.

With VS2010 I must go through page after meaningless page, menu after meaningless menu, until I am presented with material about who-knows-what, spread out over 11 pages. That's OK, MS, I'm in no hurry.

And, to make matters worse, there's tons of "Community" BS where I get to see code from
who-knows-where given equal billing with code from MS expert developers

Truly, MS, what's next for VS2012 ? Will you send us off to Facebook to see what some 14-year-old kid from Finland suggests ?

A friendly comment if I may: Innovation for the sake of innovation is not only detrimental to an already-magnificent product, it ain't necessary for sales. I'll buy VS2012 for the world class debugger and equally fine .NET Framework (hopefully you won't 'innovate' THOSE, too!).

I used to LOVE your help section and relied on it HEAVILY. Now it's really just a social networking site.

Disappointing, MS ... Truly, I think whoever's runnin' the show over at VS oughtta be sent to Google as penance.

[BigEd781]

So.. you're ranting about something no one on this site has anything to do with or any control over? What is the point? This isn't even a question, go complain to MS.

[dglienna]

There are various solutions underway, depending on the exact question.

[Brad Jones]

Is there a C# question in there somewhere, or should we move this to the chit chat section?

Brad!

[boudino]

Let's take it as example of bad desing pattern.

[viperbyte]

Why would someone start a discusion thread in a completley obviously wrong forum when having had made numerous posts and should know better than that by now?

[Brad Jones]

Thread moved.

[Skizmo]

Disappointing, MS ... Truly

You should try finding something on MSDN about MFC objects...