July 22, 2008
Delphi Documentation Online
It might have passed unnoticed in the middle of all the Tiburon blogs, but I think this is really relevant. CodeGear launched docs.codegear.com, the new central location for products documentation. From there you can download the latest help files for all products and in various formats (including PDF!).
What might not be apparent, as you first visit the site, is that portions of the documentation, including portions of the Delphi help are now available online for browsing. For example, you can find the help page about properties at:
http://docs.codegear.com/docs/radstudio/radstudio2007/RS2007_helpupdates/HUpdate4/EN/html/devcommon/properties_xml.html
It is not a CodeGear MSDN, but it is promising... and reasonably fast for now (I guess it might get slower if many developers find it).
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Delphi Documentation Online
For long URLs like that document link consider putting them through the service at tinyurl.com, to get a simple short link. Doei RIFComment by Richard Foersom on July 22, 14:38
Delphi Documentation Online
1) It takes ages to load indexes 2) It's not searchable 3) User can't add comments/corrections/examples - and heaven knows how much the Delphi documentation needs them. There are still lots of missing information and misleading ones (Datasnap especially is a mess). They just found out the ugly tool they use to develop the help allows them to publish it in HTML format. But it's really a long, long, very long way to a MSDN- like tool. BTW: every time I used the MSDN feedback I got a reply. Everytime I used the Delphi help feedback I *never* got a reply - and the missing data often are still missing.Comment by Luigi D. Sandon on August 7, 11:13
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Delphi Documentation Online
Comment by delfi phan on July 22, 14:26