How to improve search in Microsoft Document Explorer (dexplorer.exe)?

I use Microsoft Document Explorer version 9.0.21022.8.RTM. Why do I feel that using search in this MS Documentation is quite slow and quite 开发者_StackOverflow中文版bad? What i miss, what I do wrong?

Quite slow: When I search the same thing in google, yahoo or bing, i get the same results much faster. In dexplorer.exe i configured 20 results per page, local only. Each time i get 500 total results and of course I always find the thing I search in the first page of 20 results. In 'Tools' menu i can't configure to have total results first 50 or 100 max.

Quite bad: When i click F1 on a keywork in Visual Studio often i get very bad result in dexplorer. Some object which is quite far from what I do.

And in the end google becomes one of my best friends. I don't believe microsoft are stupid but they are flighting to prove it very hard. It's not a big problem but still i prefer to use a desktop app with much flexible & advanced search (like filtering language, platform, content, etc) then a browser.

Your itty-bitty machine is no match against the hardware and smarts that Google throws at the search problem. Use Google to search, you can use the site: selector to narrow the search to MSDN Library pages. The Microsoft search page is not entirely unfunctional either but lately tends to show too many unhelpful MSDN forum questions. You find topics in DE by using the index. Which is very well done, it does take a bit of time to learn how to use it however.

The Contents tab is only useful when you found a topic and want to see associated topics or introductory material. Use the "Sync with Table of Contents" button on the toolbar. It doesn't always work for older topics.