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Improved Topic Versions Now In MSDN Library

Earlier this week we added a topic Version Selector to the default MSDN Library view.  You’ll see it right below the topic title: The MSDN Library often has several versions of the same topic.  The...

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How big is the MSDN Library – and why should you care?

As of September 2010, the MSDN Library provides online access to over 16 million topics of Microsoft technical and product documentation.  What exactly is a topic?  In layman’s terms a topic is simply...

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Usability Improvements in the Class Library Reference

Scott Guthrie recently blogged about our plans to “streamline the navigation experience and make it easier to find the .NET Framework information you need” and highlighted some of the changes we were...

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MSDN Library: Now with collapsible sections

Visitors to the MSDN Library (or the TechNet Lightweight Beta) may notice a small triangle to the left of the section headings within a topic. The triangular icon next to each heading indicates that...

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Help MVPs in town for 2011 MVP Summit

Microsoft Help MVPs were in town last week for the 2011 MVP Summit.  Attending this year were: Rob Chandler (The Helpware Group) Char James-Tanny (JTF Associates) Paul Neshamkin (The Paul Neshamkin...

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Quick Links on the MSDN Library home page

While most of the MSDN Library traffic comes in from search engines, about 220,000 pageviews/month enter from a direct link to the MSDN Library home page. In the recent past the home page has looked...

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View translated content alongside English in the Lightweight Library

I’d like to extend a special greeting to those of you who read the MSDN and TechNet Libraries in a non‑English language. You represent 25% of our overall site traffic – about 60 million page views per...

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An MSDN Library for the Windows Dev Center

This week at Microsoft’s BUILD conference, we unveiled the new Windows Dev Center with four focused sub-centers: Windows Store apps, Internet Explorer, Desktop apps and Hardware: Windows Store apps...

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Guide to MSDN Library Icons

“What is the meaning of MSDN Library icons?”  When referencing the .NET Class Library in MSDN, you’ll see a variety of icons in the leftmost column of member lists.  What do these MSDN icons mean? Icon...

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