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October 2005 - Posts

Interview with Eli Murray, Programmer/Writer for Visual Studio Help and Search

Eli is a programmer/writer on the Visual Studio core IDE team. One of the features she writes about is the Help system in Visual Studio. We talked about how the Help experience has changed from Visual Studio 2003 to Visual Studio 2005, especially in the
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Interview with Tonda Kiffin, Content Discoverability Editor

Tonda is the content discoverability editor for Visual Studio 2005. We talked about what a discoverability editor does, and the work she did to make content easier to find in the upcoming release of Visual Studio. This podcast audio file is 12MB in size,
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How to: Increase Discoverability (Follow Up)

We decided to call the new topics "walkthroughs," and give them titles that describe the end-to-end experience that they document. Putting the right keywords in the title will help searches, and should make the topic stand out in index results. We will
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How to: Increase Discoverability of New Topics?

My team is discussing how we can make some new topics discoverable, so that the target readers can find them easily. We wrote these topics as complete procedures to give an overview of a complex area that is currently documented in detail, without much
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