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Visual Studio 2005 Retired documentation

  • Published:
  • Version: 2005
  • Category: developer-tools
  • Language: English

PDF files that contain the Visual Studio 2005 documentation.

PDF files that contain the Visual Studio 2005 documentation, formerly hosted online in MSDN under the Visual Studio 2005 node. This includes documentation for Visual Basic, C#, and Visual C++ as well as the Visual Studio documentation.

Files

Status: Live

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Files
VS2005_CPP_en-us.pdf
  • SHA1: 6730e9481493d557d437be0f9af67fa537c6c4dd
  • Size: 56.04 MB
VS2005_CSharp_en-us.pdf
  • SHA1: 7f9b272f234d6b6c27d7d3fe0fc20ad5ca7da64e
  • Size: 5.30 MB
VS2005_DeviceDev_en-us.pdf
  • SHA1: a000823226f8dee26f7f84ade33273d7dd9bb950
  • Size: 2.01 MB
VS2005_General_en-us.pdf
  • SHA1: dad6092235fbb5d24dd2c0b4b81b24288a36bc44
  • Size: 87.93 MB
VS2005_JScript_en-us.pdf
  • SHA1: b30558d4de0d9f945df112b180c728f05470dff1
  • Size: 1.78 MB
VS2005_JSharp_en-us.pdf
  • SHA1: 28b7950f2de7396d8a008cdc24d666ad220f5c14
  • Size: 10.47 MB
VS2005_SDK_en-us.pdf
  • SHA1: 4a57d63085fe00c80c5cb5efd8715a4f70c048db
  • Size: 110.30 MB
VS2005_VB_en-us.pdf
  • SHA1: b0173e8e4cc518b911c3e1349d0519003e65ad41
  • Size: 15.24 MB
VS2005_VSTO_en-us.pdf
  • SHA1: 7ffaf25ac6835ddaa13aa0221062f2d6dcbbb49b
  • Size: 42.76 MB
VS2005_VWD_en-us.pdf
  • SHA1: b285f5f55b8f057a273e32bd32b59e04599fa519
  • Size: 18.39 MB

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