I agree on the dismally slow speed of VS/MSDN help.

I'd call it almost acceptable *IF* the filters on help actually worked. Without filters, it is almost completely useless because of all the irrelevant topics it brings up when I try to find anything. Filter for C#? Doesn't matter - you'll get J#, VB, SQL, compact framework, and C++ specific topics. Same for all the filters. That is inexcusable.

Microsoft should find some way to be embarassed that the best product reference for their products is non-microsoft.

>>>My original response was not about VFP vs. .NET. I think that is a pointless debate. I just disagreed with the post that VFP will be useless after 2012 because of its older IDE, when I think that modern IDEs are unnessecarily slow. I also believe that VFP will be capable of solving business problems long past 2012.
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>>Fox's IDE is fast, but I bet you'd be just as productive in .net given the ease of development with prebuilt components (even with a timelag for help). I don't use MSDN help, I google what I'm looking for and zero in on the answer. Much quicker and much less frustration than playing "where do I find what I'm looking for in this MSDN maze".
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>So you have accepted the delays and are using a workaround?
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>LOL...just messin' with you.
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>I am familiar with Google, it's that search engine, right? And you are right it is faster than the MSDN help. But why is this acceptable? Why was msdn.microsoft.com/*.asp 4x to 5x faster than msdn2.microsoft.com/*.aspx? Is this acceptable too? Google makes a good workaround for that issue too, don't you think?
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>But please, no more comments about Fox vs. .NET...that's not what this is about. I use BOTH, I like BOTH...I have for years. I actually use other tools too. But, see, I'm not going to drop VFP until some of the 14,000,000 classes/methods in .NET include the ease 'o data manipulation I get in VFP. And I won't drop .NET until VFP gets another 14,000,000 classes/methods and can compile mobile apps. They work great...BOTH of them. And .NET's future looks a lot brighter to me with the VFP team working on it.
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>My point is/was why are all the newer, more "enterprise" development environments slow and why do developers accept that? My fear is that the trend will continue and by 2099 we will be able to write massive enterprise level applications with only 15 lines of code...but it will take 4 years to get those 15 lines entered in.