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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>True enough, however the MSDN docs should
start to move over to the main MSDN site relatively soon now, since 2.0 has
officially shipped. Msdn2.microsoft.com is their staging server to get
pre-release stuff setup before it ships.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>-Shawn<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Tahoma;font-weight:bold'>From:</span></font></b><font size=2
face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'>
users-bounces@lists.ironpython.com [mailto:users-bounces@lists.ironpython.com] <b><span
style='font-weight:bold'>On Behalf Of </span></b>J. Merrill<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Tuesday, November 01, 2005
6:53 AM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> <st1:PersonName w:st="on">Discussion
of IronPython</st1:PersonName><br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> Re: [IronPython] Need
help in learning.</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>That script searches the release docn for .Net (1.x). IP relies
on .Net 2, so I think the .Start line should be<br>
Process.Start("<a
href="http://lab.msdn.microsoft.com/searchbeta/Default.aspx?" eudora=autourl>http://lab.msdn.microsoft.com/searchbeta/Default.aspx?</a>"
+ query)<br>
<br>
Otherwise, some results will be missing or perhaps incomplete (or, rarely,
incorrect).<br>
<br>
At 04:27 PM 10/31/2005, Shawn Farkas wrote<br>
<br>
<br>
<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Pretty easily done with a quick script:<br>
</span></font><br>
<font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
Arial;color:navy'> <br>
</span></font><br>
<font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
Arial;color:navy'>import sys<br>
</span></font><br>
<font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
Arial;color:navy'>sys.LoadAssemblyByName("System")<br>
</span></font><br>
<font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
Arial;color:navy'>from System import String<br>
</span></font><br>
<font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
Arial;color:navy'>from System.Diagnostics import Process<br>
</span></font><br>
<font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
Arial;color:navy'> <br>
</span></font><br>
<font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
Arial;color:navy'>def msdn(query):<br>
</span></font><br>
<font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
Arial;color:navy'>
if query.GetType() == String.Empty.GetType():<br>
</span></font><br>
<font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
Arial;color:navy'>
Process.Start("<a
href="http://search.microsoft.com/search/results.aspx?View=msdn&st=b&c=4&s=1&swc=4&qu="
eudora=autourl>http://search.microsoft.com/search/results.aspx?View=msdn&st=b&c=4&s=1&swc=4&qu=</a>"
+ query)<br>
</span></font><br>
<font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
Arial;color:navy'>
else:<br>
</span></font><br>
<font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
Arial;color:navy'>
msdn(query.GetType().FullName)<br>
</span></font><br>
<font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
Arial;color:navy'> <br>
</span></font><br>
<font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
Arial;color:navy'>Will launch the MSDN help page in the user s default
browser. I m not sure if there s a nicer way to determine if the
parameter is a string or not, and this also relies on the fact that the browser
will normalize the query string (if it contains a space for instance) & but
will break if you query contains the & character. However, for
debugging purposes, if you throw that in your site.py you re all set </span></font><font
size=2 color=navy face=Wingdings><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
Wingdings;color:navy'>J<br>
</span></font><br>
<font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
Arial;color:navy'> <br>
</span></font><br>
<font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
Arial;color:navy'>-Shawn<br>
</span></font><br>
<font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
Arial;color:navy'> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Tahoma;font-weight:bold'>From:</span></font></b><font size=2
face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'>
users-bounces@lists.ironpython.com [<a
href="mailto:users-bounces@lists.ironpython.com" eudora=autourl>mailto:users-bounces@lists.ironpython.com</a>]
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>On Behalf Of </span></b>Peli de Halleux
(PELI)<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Monday, October 31, 2005
11:48 AM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> <st1:PersonName w:st="on">Discussion
of IronPython</st1:PersonName><br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> Re: [IronPython] Need
help in learning.<br>
</span></font><br>
<br>
<br>
<font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Following
up the improving the experience for new .Net users, IronPython could provide
specialized commands to search msdn and pop up a internet window. For example
something like<br>
</span></font><br>
<font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>
msdn
"System.Security.Cryptography.SignedXml.ComputeSignature"
// search based on literal<br>
</span></font><br>
<font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>
msdn foo // search based on the object type<br>
</span></font><br>
<font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>[snip]</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'><br>
<br>
J. Merrill / Analytical Software Corp <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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