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Windows Desktop has much more documentation than both Android and iOS. It does take a bit of practice to find things in MSDN, but if it exists^1, then I'll be very surprised if it's not documented. (Except Azure APIs, I don't know why Azure seemed to miss out)

1: By exists I mean a public API. Even some APIs that aren't intended to be used by applications have documentation. Eg: RtlGenRandom.

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I saw someone mentioning that in some places the MSDN documentation was light on detail because because in the early days (Win32/MFC/AFX) they were trying to sell training and certifications with the actual detail in it.

The original MSDN came on a bunch of CDs but it moved to online only a long time ago.

It has always been comprehensive.

The problem I have found lately is some of the more esoteric stuff seems to have disappeared. That and the urls changing and poor SEO.

I'm from germany and it makes me so mad that they automatically redirect me to some shitty autotranslated german site. I have to manually change the "de-de" to "en-us" in the url all the time when browsing microsoft docs.

> but nobody does windows desktop anyway

That much is fairly true now though. It just doesn't make sense to build an enterprise app that is windows native and can't run on any other OS/be accessed via web.

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