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Kinda surprised me Microsoft doesn't have better syntax highlighting on msdn. The lack of coloration and gray background gave me a little bit of a headache.
by JamesBarney 10y ago
Kinda surprised me Microsoft doesn't have better syntax highlighting on msdn.
The lack of coloration and gray background gave me a little bit of a headache.
- Analemma_ 10y agoIt's especially baffling because they clearly have a great web formatting library for code (Monaco): http://www.typescriptlang.org/play/ http://www.typescriptlang.org/play/. Why not use it?
- msbarnett 10y agoCoupled with the wrapping, paucity of line breaks, and (near lack of) indentation, the examples are damn near unreadable.
- jdmichal 10y agoThe markup actually does have coloring. However, there's a CSS rule that's overriding them all back to black. How strange.
- mathw 10y agoIt is rather baffling. They have an amazing online code browsing tool they use for the reference source of the .NET Framework (enormously useful for figuring out all the details they don't bother to document and the type system can't express), but they aren't applying that tech more universally. The blog platform particularly suffers for it.
- ungzd 10y agoMSDN (web version, maybe desktop app still exists, I don't know) still has very poor usability. Recently I decided to try .NET and was surprised how painful MSDN is (compared to almost any other documentation website). Page load times of 5-10 seconds, poor navigation (2-3 link clicks just to get to list of class methods). Does anyone know any alternative .NET documentation viewers (usable without Visual Studio and Windows)?