I'm not sure if they provided adequate tooling for the former. They definitely didn't provide adequate documentation for the latter.
Or maybe they did - back when MSDN was actually well-organized and somewhat complete-ish (and shipped on optical disks or otherwise downloadable!), I was too young to make much use of it. Now, that wealth of knowledge is mostly gone, and external links to it don't resolve.
Or maybe they did - back when MSDN was actually well-organized and somewhat complete-ish (and shipped on optical disks or otherwise downloadable!), I was too young to make much use of it. Now, that wealth of knowledge is mostly gone, and external links to it don't resolve.