Re: [Boost-users] boost MSDN

On 6/10/2011 5:51 AM, Klaim - Joël Lamotte wrote:

On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 05:39, Peter mailto:lq.yan@siat.ac.cn> wrote:

Dear all,

I'm a newer to boost library. when i try to use the boost library to get the files of current directory, I found it is so difficult to get some help from boost HTML document. Is there any document could teach me to use boost library API? Most of time, i use visual studio, MSDN teach me how to use API. So i think Boost maybe has similar documents to help me improving coding speed. --

Hi Peter and welcome,

Boost is a set of libraries, not only one library. You can think Boost is a "quality label" to make it more clear.

That means that each library have it own purpose, might be totally independant of other Boost libraries and have an interface specifically thought to solve a specific kind of problem. So not all libraries can share the same interface.

That also mean that each library have to have it's documentation separate from the others.

As Boost is totally independant from companies like Microsoft, you can't (AFAIK) automatically provide a way to get the Boost documentation in MSDN browser.

There is almost certainly a way to add non-Microsoft documentation to the MSDN browser. Whether it would be worth doing or not ( Docbook to MSDN browser format ? ) is another question.