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Re:Building a new Windows 3.1 app in 2019: A Slack Client by dboreham on Thursday December 19, 2019 @12:22AM (#21832170)
Prior to online search engines there were similar offline resources such as the MSDN CDs.
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Re:Building a new Windows 3.1 app in 2019: A Slack Client by yeokm1 on Thursday December 19, 2019 @12:32AM (#21832209)
Agreed. But such CDs are tough to locate today.
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Re:Building a new Windows 3.1 app in 2019: A Slack Client by whoopdedo on Thursday December 19, 2019 @02:12AM (#21832700)
Borland's compilers had the best documentation. They included a much of the MSDN API reference in their built-in help files.
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Re:Building a new Windows 3.1 app in 2019: A Slack Client by yeokm1 on Thursday December 19, 2019 @04:01AM (#21833204)
Hmm. Borland and Watcom compilers came up in my research. Will look into them for help next time!
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Re:Building a new Windows 3.1 app in 2019: A Slack Client by jbverschoor on Thursday December 19, 2019 @07:48AM (#21834417)
Yeah Borland was great with docs
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Re:Building a new Windows 3.1 app in 2019: A Slack Client by homarp on Thursday December 19, 2019 @12:41AM (#21832245)
maybe https://archive.org/details/msdncds can help
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Re:Building a new Windows 3.1 app in 2019: A Slack Client by efreak on Thursday December 19, 2019 @01:00PM (#21837416)
The Eye might have these, they have a bunch of old Microsoft/msdn related stuff.
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