Pointless documentation.

Question

Hi,

Just found the following link on the MSDN relating to performing a nightly build using VSTS:

 

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnvs05/html/NtBldTmSrv.asp

Is there any point in having documentation on the web if it is quite blatently incorrect or at best misleading.  I've done a search for the .sln file discussed and it doesnt exist.  This means that my install has gone wrong, or this is relating to a beta version, or the code never existed in the first place.

I find it funny I need to do Google searches for blogs to get the information I need to carry out a relativelty straight forward task!

This is not the first instance of poor documentation I have noticed recently w.r.t 2005 products such as Visual Studio, or SQl Server.

Peds

Answer 1

Thank you for the feedback.  The documentation that is published does go through a review process, but unfortunately errors do slip through.  The latest documentation on scheduling a nightly build is available here:

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/ms181727.aspx

The document that was linked in the original post is now gone, so I am not sure if it described the "teambuild start" way of scheduling a build or some earlier process.