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0 pointssetq8y ago0 comments

Most of the documentation is boilerplate. There's very little real content now and most of it is filler.

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Here's an example of a new API they added recently (the first one I thought of): https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/mt5...

It says things like this:

> Indicates that the data for the file should be obtained from a WIM file. On access, data is transparently extracted from the WIM file and provided to applications. If the file contents are modified, data is transparently decompressed and the file is restored to the same physical form it had if this API were not used.

This is "boilerplate" and "very little content" to you? What are you thinking of?

setqOP8y ago

To be fair Win32 isn't terrible. Have you looked at the .Net docs?

http://imgur.com/a/iK4uG

wfunction8y ago

I haven't to be honest, but at the same time I'm not sure what you expect to see as the summary here. Is there anything profound to say about two overloads that differ by an extra "millisecond" parameter?

krallja8y ago

You need to click on the overload of this method that you are interested in. This is just the top level "where do you want to go?" document.

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wfunction8y ago

Here's an example of a new API they added recently (the first one I thought of): https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/mt5...

It says things like this:

This is "boilerplate" and "very little content" to you? What are you thinking of?

setqOP8y ago

To be fair Win32 isn't terrible. Have you looked at the .Net docs?

http://imgur.com/a/iK4uG

wfunction8y ago

krallja8y ago

You need to click on the overload of this method that you are interested in. This is just the top level "where do you want to go?" document.

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j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse