The new MSDN web site

New MSDN web site for Visual Studio 2005 Beta

Without you around — Tue, 14 Sep 2004 10:26:00 GMT

Updated MSDN Site...This is Good Stuff

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Updated MSDN Site...Nice

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re: The new MSDN web site

Teucer — Tue, 14 Sep 2004 09:38:00 GMT

I made an observation.

Goto the Class Library page - http://msdn2.microsoft.com/library/d11h6832.aspx

and then click the System.Collections link. It takes you to an error page.

but use the URL Alias feature it takes you to the right location :)

New MSDN = REALLY cool

.net DElirium — Tue, 14 Sep 2004 16:52:00 GMT

re: The new MSDN web site

Chris Sells — Tue, 14 Sep 2004 15:23:00 GMT

The .aspx suffix is optional, i.e. the following works just as well:

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/library/System.Reflection.Assembly.FullName

MSDN redesign

Random .NET Ramblings — Tue, 14 Sep 2004 19:22:00 GMT

re: The new MSDN web site

Tim — Tue, 14 Sep 2004 16:27:00 GMT

The URL alias mechanism is a new feature we added for this early release of our new online infrastructure. It's designed to work for every managed API page, but it isn't fully implemented yet. Here are some observations:

It will work for namespaces as long as they have a '.' in them. So it won't work for the System, Microsoft, etc. namespaces. This is a bug that will be fixed.

It should work for all class names. It will work for *SOME* property and method names. We tried to get all of them working, but ran into some issues, so we had to drop some for this early release. The plan is to make it work for all fields/properties/methods, including overloads. Note that you have to reference the member on it's defining type. Inherited members are not exposed with an alias on the derived type unless they are overridden. This is simply the nature of the doc structure.

You can also get to the list of methods, properties, fields or all members, but appending the appropriate value, like this:

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/library/System.Reflection.Assembly_Members

As Chris noted, the .aspx is optional.

Finally, the database behind this is not yet optimized for this sort of access. That will happen in a future release. So be patient if alias resolution takes a little longer than short id based lookups.

Finally, note one other feature. The URL's you navigate to use short ids instead of file paths. This is the first concrete step toward keeping API URLs stable over time.

Enjoy. :-)

Tim Ewald
MSDN Program Manager Lead

re: The new MSDN web site

Sean Gephardt — Tue, 14 Sep 2004 17:16:00 GMT

A lot of great work was done by Tim and his team on this version of MSDN. I hope everyone digs the improvements! I know I enjoyed putting the UI together!

MSDN2 Library URLs

XML-BLOG — Wed, 15 Sep 2004 16:07:00 GMT

Tim Ewald and company are doing a wonderful job of overhauling the MSDN website. One benefit we can see right away is in accessing the documentation for the BCL. The news broke over at Junfeng Zhng's blog. See the comments for all the details, but suffice it to say that...

re: The new MSDN web site

Christian Romney — Wed, 15 Sep 2004 13:08:00 GMT

Any chance we'll see some sample code for the HttpModule (assuming that's how you did it)? :)

MSDN Alpha Available

CraigBlog — Wed, 15 Sep 2004 20:32:00 GMT

re: The new MSDN web site

dotnetjunkie — Wed, 15 Sep 2004 21:28:00 GMT

Tim, can you PLEASE elaborate on how this URL aliasing system was done?
I'm sure many asp.net developers would be interested in seeing an article/sample about this! (and I definitely want to implement it in my sites!)

MSDN2

O Blog do Cruz — Thu, 16 Sep 2004 03:24:00 GMT

MSDN2

Dave Donaldson's Blog — Thu, 16 Sep 2004 20:43:00 GMT

MSDN2

Dave Donaldson's Blog — Thu, 16 Sep 2004 20:43:00 GMT

re: The new MSDN web site

Michael TUrner — Thu, 16 Sep 2004 23:05:00 GMT

This is pretty sweet. Good job on making things easier. I know I'll be using it. One knock though on the interface; I'd like to see it work better in Mozilla Firefox. Keep up the good work.

MSDN2

Stefan Bodewig — Fri, 17 Sep 2004 10:30:00 GMT

Junfeng Zhang points to a beta of an overhaul of MSDN. I've been accessing the .NET class library docs at MSDN quite a bit over the past weeks and always thought it was rather hard to navigate - in particular when compared to the Javadocs I was used

re: The new MSDN web site

Christophe Pichaud — Tue, 21 Sep 2004 07:33:00 GMT

Great and beautiful.
The old-devmentor men are back !

Christophe Pichaud - CPi21 LLC.

MSDN just keeps getting better - smart urls!

Eric Nelson — Wed, 22 Sep 2004 16:38:00 GMT

re: The new MSDN web site

Nick Parker — Thu, 30 Sep 2004 21:08:00 GMT

Just to let you know, I have recently written an IE toolbar add-in that will allow you to type your .NET namespace into it and you will be redirected to the new MSDN documentation. You can read about it here:

http://www.codeproject.com/tools/netnamespace.asp

-Nick Parker

re: The new MSDN web site

Junfeng Zhang — Fri, 01 Oct 2004 04:42:00 GMT

Great!

This did inspire some good uses of it:)

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