Microsoft has released an improved structure for the patterns & practices node in the MSDN Library. You can find the new top level page here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms998572.aspx.

What’s Different?

Microsoft has restructured the catalog of p&p offerings into generally well-understood categories. These categories include Solution Development Fundamentals, Client Development, Server Development, and Services Development. These categories provide a level of technical context (helping customers to find other related guidance) and also reinforce the common conceptual model that are now using across all patterns & practices communication. This model is called the “p&p Product Frame”.

Microsoft has also clarified which releases are current (for use with the current versions of Microsoft products and technologies), which are previous but still useful, and which releases are retired and should no longer be used.

While Microsoft will continue to make incremental improvements in the p&p Developer Center, Microsoft will be increasingly relying on the Library structure, and the content on our node level pages in the library, to facilitate navigation. Meanwhile, Microsoft will prune the Dev Center down, over time, into a simple portal of introductory information.