Inside MSDN and TechNet : Wiki

New Controls and the Wiki Annotation Editor

larryj — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 03:05:00 GMT

The Telerik Editor is now implemented as the Wiki Annotation Editor across the MSDN and TechNet libraries. You can see a sample by clicking here...

Here is the our release status…

Community Content: Telerik Editor (replaces inline custom editor)

This work involved moving the new Telerik Prometheus HTML editor (see www.telerik.com for more details) into MTPS rendering and using it to replace the custom inline editor for Community Content. In addition to a great WYSIWYG editing experience, all of our controls have been updated to improve page load performance and we have added support for the MTPS Code snippet control which will provide users a similar code markup and syntax highlighting that library pages currently enjoy as well as the "copy code" functionality. We also gave a new clean look and feel to the Community Content controls.

Larry W Jordan Jr - Product Unit Manager for the MSDN and TechNet Infrastructure and Services Team

Upcoming "Friends of MSDN/TechNet Library Garage" Event in Bellevue, WA

larryj — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 19:04:00 GMT

Please head on over and join the "Friends of the MSDN Library" facebook group as we will be sending out invitations shortly!

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=16125221070

We are hosting a Feedback and Garage event on Thursday, July 31st in Bellevue to show the latest design comps and updates to make the MSDN Library fresh and more productive.

We will focus on...

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Quality of Service - Our measurements and architecture changes to improve the speed and caching of the MSDN Library around the world.
Library 3.0 - New design comps and presentation on the next generation of the MSDN Library
Services - We will show the thinking on the RESTian model for integration services for MSDN. We will show Package This! and a prototype caching application for Technical Documentation.
MSDN WorkPlace - Our new system for submission of articles from the Community into MSDN and TechNet

And more...

Food!
Swag!
Beer!

Larry W Jordan Jr - Product Unit Manager for the MSDN and TechNet Infrastructure and Services Team

New Package This! - Supports Community Content

larryj — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 02:55:00 GMT

You can take it with you!

The new 1.3 version of version of Package This! Now supports exporting Community Content to .hxs and .chm files. It is also simplified into a single .exe.

You can download from CodePlex @ http://www.codeplex.com/packagethis/Release/ProjectReleases.aspx?ReleaseId=12172

Package This is a GUI tool written in C# for creating help files (.chm and .hxs) from the content obtained from the MSDN Library or the TechNet Library via the MSDN Content Service. You select the content you want from the table of contents, build a help file, and use the content offline. You are making personalized ebooks of MSDN or TechNet content. Both help file formats also give full text search and keyword search.

The Community Content feed is @ http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/community-edits(rss).aspx

Larry W Jordan Jr - Product Unit Manager for the MSDN and TechNet Infrastructure and Services Team

Interested in Helping us Shape the Next Version of the MSDN Library?

larryj — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 04:32:00 GMT

We have put a facebook group together to aggregate together the folks who want to work with us to provide feedback, usability and ideas for the next generation of the MSDN Library. We call this project Library 3.0 and we will be organizing events and presentations from this group to bring us together on the project. My goal is build quorum of members over the next months with kickoff’s in late May for the first events.

Join the “Friends of the MSDN Library” Group on facebook : http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=16125221070

Larry W Jordan Jr - Product Unit Manager for MSDN and TechNet Infrastructure Team

MSDN Tagging Launches

larryj — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 17:10:00 GMT

The MSDN Team Launched Tagging across the entire corpus of the MSDN Library (it is present anyplace that Community Content is enabled) and we are ready for your Folksonomies!

The MTPS Tagging feature enables customers and authors to add and remove visible keyword tags to both topic pages and wiki blocks to improve discoverability of the library content. The ability to add tags to content will be enabled for teams who have opted into the Community Content (wiki annotations) feature in MTPS.

A consolidated ‘tag cloud’ view of all tags is shown on the MSDN Library home page and provides a way to navigate content by associated metadata. The Browse by tags pages enable discovery of content through progressive refinement of tags.

As with the Community Content blocks, anyone can add tags to content provided they have a Live ID, a display name (selected at signup) and an agreement to the Community Terms of Use.

Tags list (http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/tags-list.aspx)

Larry W Jordan Jr - Product Unit Manager for MSDN and TechNet Infrastructure Team