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Public contributions for win32 API documentation

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Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 11:56:56 AM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by week3 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2020-09-25 10:52:56 UTC to 2021-04-05 22:03:00 UTC. Weeks start Monday, UTC.

012020-09-21 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-09-28 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsSep 212020-09-28 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-10-05 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2020-10-05 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-10-12 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2020-10-12 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-10-19 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2020-10-19 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-10-26 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2020-10-26 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-11-02 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2020-11-02 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-11-09 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2020-11-09 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-11-16 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2020-11-16 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-11-23 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2020-11-23 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-11-30 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2020-11-30 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-12-07 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2020-12-07 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-12-14 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2020-12-14 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-12-21 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2020-12-21 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-12-28 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2020-12-28 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-04 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 commentsDec 282021-01-04 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-11 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2021-01-11 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-18 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2021-01-18 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-25 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2021-01-25 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-02-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2021-02-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-02-08 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2021-02-08 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-02-15 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2021-02-15 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-02-22 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2021-02-22 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-03-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2021-03-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-03-08 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2021-03-08 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-03-15 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2021-03-15 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-03-22 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2021-03-22 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-03-29 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2021-03-29 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-04-05 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2021-04-05 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-04-12 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsApr 5

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Sep 212020-09-21 00:00:00 UTC2020-09-28 00:00:00 UTC101
Sep 282020-09-28 00:00:00 UTC2020-10-05 00:00:00 UTC000
Oct 52020-10-05 00:00:00 UTC2020-10-12 00:00:00 UTC000
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Oct 192020-10-19 00:00:00 UTC2020-10-26 00:00:00 UTC000
Oct 262020-10-26 00:00:00 UTC2020-11-02 00:00:00 UTC000
Nov 22020-11-02 00:00:00 UTC2020-11-09 00:00:00 UTC000
Nov 92020-11-09 00:00:00 UTC2020-11-16 00:00:00 UTC000
Nov 162020-11-16 00:00:00 UTC2020-11-23 00:00:00 UTC000
Nov 232020-11-23 00:00:00 UTC2020-11-30 00:00:00 UTC000
Nov 302020-11-30 00:00:00 UTC2020-12-07 00:00:00 UTC000
Dec 72020-12-07 00:00:00 UTC2020-12-14 00:00:00 UTC000
Dec 142020-12-14 00:00:00 UTC2020-12-21 00:00:00 UTC101
Dec 212020-12-21 00:00:00 UTC2020-12-28 00:00:00 UTC000
Dec 282020-12-28 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-04 00:00:00 UTC000
Jan 42021-01-04 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-11 00:00:00 UTC000
Jan 112021-01-11 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-18 00:00:00 UTC000
Jan 182021-01-18 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-25 00:00:00 UTC000
Jan 252021-01-25 00:00:00 UTC2021-02-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Feb 12021-02-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-02-08 00:00:00 UTC000
Feb 82021-02-08 00:00:00 UTC2021-02-15 00:00:00 UTC000
Feb 152021-02-15 00:00:00 UTC2021-02-22 00:00:00 UTC000
Feb 222021-02-22 00:00:00 UTC2021-03-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Mar 12021-03-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-03-08 00:00:00 UTC000
Mar 82021-03-08 00:00:00 UTC2021-03-15 00:00:00 UTC000
Mar 152021-03-15 00:00:00 UTC2021-03-22 00:00:00 UTC000
Mar 222021-03-22 00:00:00 UTC2021-03-29 00:00:00 UTC000
Mar 292021-03-29 00:00:00 UTC2021-04-05 00:00:00 UTC000
Apr 52021-04-05 00:00:00 UTC2021-04-12 00:00:00 UTC101

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Most older pages on docs.ms.com have been converted to Markdown, and yes, that includes the Windows C and COM API docs.* Here's the source code for CreateFile's doc page: https://github.com/MicrosoftDocs/sdk-api/blob/docs/sdk-api-s... Having said that, https://docs.microsoft.com 's flavor of Markdown does allow for embedded HTML, like GitHub's and enough pages still use that feature that the conversion to Markdown is arguably incomplete. It isn't a big issue in practice, however; you can update markup from HTML to Markdown along with your other changes. * As a recent-past engineer on the Windows team, I have a rather lower opinion of Windows API docs than you. :) The Windows developer platform has not had enough dedicated technical writers for years; our developer content teams are mainly editors of engineer- and PM-written original docs,
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which can lead to API doc sets with badly written pages, important missing information, or references to Windows-internal developer tools. I tried to channel my frustrations into correcting and extending my coworkers' writings, or into gently asking them to fix their omissions when I didn't have the free time to spend on the needed research.
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No, though depending on what you do, win32.hlp is still valid (you'll need to replace the Win10 winhelp stub with a real version from an earlier version of Windows though since Microsoft hasn't released a Win10 version of winhelp). However your best best is to find some MSDN CD/DVD image that still uses CHM and use that. Also note that the Win32 documentation apparently went through a ton of conversions and in the process some entries were lost (in that the API docs are there but the docs are missing parts). The official docs site has PDFs for download but those are automatically generated from the section you are reading and they have cutoff points that feel arbitrary (so you can't go to the highest section for Windows and download all docs). You can find a PDF for the Win32 API reference for handling windows[0] but it contains only the
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reference and you need to go to another place for the guide (in comparison the win32.hlp and MSDN documentation had both). These PDFs are also awful, they look like printed websites, they have zero grouping (the sidebar bookmarks are per header file) and the bookmarks are even broken (clicking on one will move you +/- 1 page off). The "source code" for the docs is apparently on GitHub[1] but it looks like a conversion to markdown and not the real source. Though theoretically it could be possible to parse it and create a proper CHM (or whatever) file out of it since the docs are there [2]. Sadly it only includes the reference and not the guides (but they might be somewhere else on that GitHub account, there are 2300+ repositories, so good luck finding it :-P). [0] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/api/_winmsg/ [1] https://github.com/MicrosoftDocs/sdk-api/ [2] https://github.com/MicrosoftDocs/sdk-api/blob/docs/sdk-api-s...
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