[ifseplz]

Yes, it can be done.

Microsoft had great documentation in 1998. It is called MSDN VS 6.0. You can find it at WinWorldPC. You had everything there (in the documentation)! DirectX, WIN32API, what ever you wish... Hit F1 on random keyword and it would still pull out the documentation for it with code examples too. No need to connect to the internet.

Comparing that to nowadays Visual Studio documentation... it's... bad. Offline documentation has links to online resources which is missing the point. You have some information there but it is not complete, it is full of holes.

[non-entity]

I swear modern MSDN is nearly impossible to navigate without a search engine.

[sloaken]

I am so glad you said this. I thought it was just me.