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If I recall, MSDN was super expensive but that is because it included non-commercial licenses for just about everything Microsoft shipped as well as getting har
by saratogacx 8mo ago
If I recall, MSDN was super expensive but that is because it included non-commercial licenses for just about everything Microsoft shipped as well as getting hard copies of the documentation and a bunch of other stuff.
If you just wanted to do c++ windows programming you can get visual studio which, I believe, did come with Win32 documentation (especially as CD roms became common distro methods).
The c++ software development kit itself (just libraries, documentation, and samples, no tooling) wasn't too expensive and was mainly material costs.
- markus_zhang 8mo agoI always drool over those paper documents. Imagining myself getting into some underground facility due to WW3 and hacking on some old computers reading those manuals is one of my comforts.
- markus_zhang 8mo agoEh, just found this by a random search: https://download.microsoft.com/download/1/6/d/16d24ada-5317-4de1-b2b2-890b51813d6e/VS2005_VB_en-us.pdf https://download.microsoft.com/download/1/6/d/16d24ada-5317-... 5,000+ pages...I think this is the FULL documentation for everything related to VB 2005.