>In a code window I type sprintf( and see a tooltip telling me int sprintf( char *, const char *,...)
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>now if the tooltip said int sprintf( char *buffer, const char *format [, argument] ... ); it would be fundamentally more useful to me to know which argument is the buffer and which is the format string, without having to deduce that from the argtype.

Ah, I see what you mean. There's no reason why they couldn't have put in parameter names and I agree it would have made this feature more useful. However, type MessageBox(, or other SDK or MFC function, and you'll get parameter names.

>> And the new MSDN browser doesn't goto the topic without doing an explicit search. VC5 you could highlight sprintf and hit F1 and get right there to the function help.

I'm seeing this behavior with VC++ (i.e., it works without having to do a search) but not with VFP. I don't like the new help system one bit.

>cTest cString;
>cTest.
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>At this point I get a list of members, after selecting one I get the arglist. that didn't happen the other day.

I've noticed that the line has to be syntactically correct for this to fire. There's a lot of behind-the-scenes parsing in VC++ 6.0.