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青いだけじゃないMSDNオンラインライブラリ

Michiko — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 20:23:00 GMT

先週末に見たときにはまだいつもの赤色系だったのですが、今朝見たらMSDNオンラインライブラリが青くなっていました。
社内で開発が進んでいた新しいMSDNオンラインライブラリでは、インターネット接続の速度にあわせて3つのビューが選べるようになっています。

右下の「ビューの切り替え」で、クラシック、ライトウェイト、Scriptfree（スクリプトなし）の3つのビューを切り替えて表示できます。
（画像をクリックすると日本語版のMSDNライブラリへ飛びます）

Note:Visual Stuio 2010 Beta1 ドキュメントは、クラシックビューの時のみ英語と日本語のサイドバイサイド(SxS)表示となります。

MSDN: 日本語版のSilverlight3のドキュメント

Michiko — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 00:10:00 GMT

同僚が「明日ドキュメントのリリースがある」と言って忙しそうに走り回っていたのですが、どうやら無事にリリースになった模様です(^^)

と、いうわけで、日本語版のSilverlight3のドキュメントがMSDNとダウンロードセンターに上がっています。
http://msdn.microsoft.com/ja-jp/library/cc838158(VS.95).aspx

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=0a9773a7-c854-41fa-b73d-535abfb73baf&displaylang=ja (ダウンロードセンター）

Japanese Visual Studio 2010 Beta1 Product Documentation is now available!!

Michiko — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 02:57:00 GMT

I'm pleased to announce that we've released Japanese Visual Studio 2010 Beta1 Documentation on the MSDN Online Library.
In this release we've tried couple of new things such as Machine Translation, English and Japanese Side by Side (SxS) View, Highlighting feature.
Japan has very high-standard for everything and introducing Machine Translated Developer content to this High-Tech country is a big challenge. So we implemented the English (source) and Japanese (target) SxS view to help our customer to use Machine Translated developer documentation. In my personal opinion? It's very COOL!! I love it and I hope many Japanese customer will love it. Since this is the first time we introduced SxS Library to Japan you may see something you don't expect. We love to hear all those feedback and bug information!

VS2010 URL:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/ja-jp/library/fx6bk1f4(VS.100).aspx

.NET Framework 4 URL:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/ja-jp/library/w0x726c2(VS.100).aspx

Machine Translation Pilot program FAQ (created by Microsoft Japan team) URL:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/ja-jp/vstudio/dd794695.aspx

Highlighting the Machine Translated content in the Japanese pane.

Highlighting the English source.

ふと目に止まった「8 割引の 2,677 円」

Michiko — Mon, 04 May 2009 11:11:00 GMT

MCPの試験が2,677円で受けられるのはかなりお得な気がします。自分も遥か昔(日本にいた頃)にMCPの資格を取りましたが、既に資格の有効期限が切れているはず...でも下の条件には当てはまります。

下記すべてに該当するあなたが本キャンペーンの利用対象者です。

・2007 年 6 月 30 日以前に何らかの MCP 資格を取得した方。

・2007 年 7 月 1 日以降今日まで新たに MCP 資格を取得していない方。

現在アメリカ在住ですが、「お住まいの国が日本を含む本キャンペーンの対象国になっている方」ってことはもしかしたらアメリカでもOKそうな予感？はハズれて、アメリカでは8割引はない模様（残念！）オーストラリアやニュージーが対象国なのはちょっと意外でした。

・お客さまの MCP 資格者登録情報として、お住まいの国が日本を含む本キャンペーンの対象国になっている方。

キャンペーンの詳細は以下のサイトから:
http://www.microsoft.com/japan/learning/mcp/voc/loyalty_campaign/default.mspx

Someday Dexplore will be totally deprecated...

Michiko — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 08:36:00 GMT

My smart readers sent me some thoughts on the MSDN Help System. Thanks for your feedback and anybody who has feedback about MSDN feel free to send me your suggestions via Contact form.

Our Help Experience team has been working on the new Help System, hopefully it'll be a nice improvement.
By the way, there's not much updates about Help3 in AprilR's blog since last update but I know that the team is working very hard.

Thanks again for your feedback.

Machine Translation: SxS display options from Live Translator

Michiko — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 10:51:00 GMT

The translation is not perfect but the Machine Translation is becoming more useful and popular these days.
There are couple of SxS (side-by-side) display option that Windows Live Translator has and I'm just thinking if MSDN Online Library can have the same display options. Live Translator offers Vertical, Horizontal windows and pop-up text for either original English or machine translation.

Here's an example of MSDN machine translation page. http://msdn.microsoft.com/pt-br/library/ms246590.aspx
You can see the English original content and Brazilian Portuguese content side by side.

If you try Live Translator (copy and paste the English original page URL: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms246590.aspx)
you'll see the machine translation result like below.
http://www.windowslivetranslator.com/BV.aspx?ref=Internal#http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms246590.aspx

The translation is not identical but looks almost the same. Probably the different results came from different (latest, more tuned or bit older) machine translation memory. I assume Live Translator is using more recent translation memory but can't tell which one has better translation quality in this example.

Below is the two machine translation results.
--------------- MSDN Online Library ------------------------
Windows Multilingual User Interface (MUI) Packs permitem que você instale uma versão em inglês do Windows e instale vários User Interface Language Packs. User Interface Language Packs fornecem uma interface de usuário (UI) localizada para o sistema operacional. Por exemplo, você pode instalar uma User Interface Language Pack em japonês por cima de uma versão em inglês do Windows e depois alternar o idioma da UI do Windows entre japonês e inglês. O MUI permite você ter várias versões de idiomas do Windows em um único computador.
---------------- Live Translator ---------------------------------
Pacotes do Windows Multilingual User Interface (MUI) permitem que você instalar uma versão inglesa do Windows e instale vários User Interface Language Packs. Pacotes de idioma de interface de usuário fornecem uma interface de usuário localizada (UI) para o sistema operacional. Por exemplo, você pode instalar um pacote de idiomas interface usuário Japonês em cima de uma versão inglesa do Windows e, em seguida, alternar idioma da UI do Windows entre japonês e inglês. O MUI permite que você tenha várias de versões de idioma do Windows em um único computador.
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More interesting information available at the Microsoft Research Machine Translation (MSR-MT) Team Blog http://blogs.msdn.com/translation/default.aspx

Localized MSDN VS2008 SP1 Library - December 2008 Update

Michiko — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 10:17:00 GMT

As you may know the localized "MSDN VS2008 SP1 Library - December 2008" Update is available for following 8 laguages. Click the language below to see the Download Page. If you already have previously released MSDN VS2008 SP1 Library in your local computer please uninstall it before installing the December 2008 Update. If you don't uninstall the previous version first then Setup program will run as Maintenance Mode.

Note: There's not December Update for English and Russian version of MSDN VS2008 SP1 Library.

Localized Silverlight 2.0 SDK is available at MSDN Online Library and Download Center.

Michiko — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 01:36:00 GMT

Just in case you haven't checked it out we have localized Silverlight 2.0 SDK documentation at MSDN Online Library for Japanese, French, Italian, German, Spanish, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese and Korean. SDK (CHM file) download is also available at Microsoft Download Center.

MSDN Online Library	CHM
JPN: http://msdn.microsoft.com/ja-jp/library/cc838158(vs.95).aspx	JPN CHM
FRA: http://msdn.microsoft.com/fr-fr/library/cc838158(vs.95).aspx	FRA CHM
ITA: http://msdn.microsoft.com/it-it/library/cc838158(vs.95).aspx	ITA CHM
DEU: http://msdn.microsoft.com/de-de/library/cc838158(vs.95).aspx	DEU CHM
ESN: http://msdn.microsoft.com/es-es/library/cc838158(vs.95).aspx	ESN CHM
CHS: http://msdn.microsoft.com/zh-cn/library/cc838158(vs.95).aspx	CHS CHM
CHT: http://msdn.microsoft.com/zh-tw/library/cc838158(vs.95).aspx	CHT CHM
KOR: http://msdn.microsoft.com/ko-kr/library/cc838158(vs.95).aspx	KOR CHM

MSDN Library pour Visual Studio 2008 SP1

Michiko — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 03:25:00 GMT

I'm pleased to announce that French MSDN Library for Visual Studio 2008 SP1 is now available at Microsoft Download Center!!

Parmi le contenu mis à jour de MSDN Library pour Visual Studio 2008 SP1, vous trouverez les éléments suivants :

Documentation de Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1
Mises à jour générales de la documentation de Visual Studio 2008
Mises à jour de la documentation pour les développeurs Windows
Base de connaissances Microsoft
Et bien plus encore...

Download Page:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=7BBE5EDA-5062-4EBB-83C7-D3C5FF92A373&displaylang=fr

Also new French MSDN Express Library is available at http://www.microsoft.com/express/download/#webInstall.

Released German, Italian, Korean, Spanish, Simplified Chinese and Traditional Chinese version of MSDN VS2008 SP1 Library

Michiko — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 13:38:00 GMT

I am very pleased to announce that 6 more localized MSDN Offline Libraries are available at Microsoft Download Center!
Also we posted the updated Visual Studio 2008 SP1 content on the MSDN Online Library.

MSDN Library Download Page URL:

Also new MSDN Express Library is available for the avobe 6 languages. Please visit www.microsoft.com/express/ or click the image below!!

Japanese MSDN Library for Visual Studio 2008 SP1 is now available!!

Michiko — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 03:47:00 GMT

Last month we released English MSDN Full Library and MSDN Express Library and now Japanese version is available at Microsoft Download Center!

You can download Japanese MSDN Library for Visual Studio 2008 SP1 at:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=7BBE5EDA-5062-4EBB-83C7-D3C5FF92A373&displaylang=ja

MSDN Express Library is also available at Express Product download site: http://www.microsoft.com/express/download/
In this release we added drop-down list to download localized MSDN Express Library as well as other Express Products!!
The rest of 8 language versions will be added in the near future (so stay tuned!)

Tips for the DVD burn software:
- When you download the ISO image for MSDN (Full) Library and burn a DVD (DVD-5) please check the options before you actually burn a DVD.
- Look for an option something like "Burn DVD from an ISO image". (The menu is different depends on the DVD burner software you have.)
- If you see just one big ISO file in your DVD instead of many .cab files and folders (including "setup.exe") you created a DVD with wrong way.

MSDN Library for Visual Studio 2008 SP1 is now available!!

Michiko — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 03:03:00 GMT

Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1 has been released and it's available on the Microsoft Download Center.
English version of MSDN Library for Visual Studio 2008 is also available as a separate download. This library contains updated Visual Studio documentation, updated SQL Server documentation, updated Windows Server documentation, updated Knowledge Base and Service Pack 1 documentation.
Addition to the updated documentation we improved setup performance in this release. So the setup is faster than previous release.

MSDN VS2008 SP1 Library (Download Center):
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=7bbe5eda-5062-4ebb-83c7-d3c5ff92a373&displaylang=en

Note: Please DO NOT install old MSDN VS2008 (November 2007 RTM version) on top of the latest MSDN VS2008 SP1 (August 2008) Library.

Visual Studio Express Editions user:
MSDN Express Library for Visual Studio 2008 Express Editions SP1 is available at: http://www.microsoft.com/express/download/msdn/Default.aspx
You need to install at least one or more SP1 version of Visual Studio 2008 Express Editions first to install this new MSDN Express Library.

Note: In this release MSDN Express Library setup is separated from Visual Studio 2008 Express Editions SP1 setup.

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Somasegar's Blog:
http://blogs.msdn.com/somasegar/archive/2008/08/11/service-pack-1-for-vs-2008-and-net-fx-3-5-released.aspx

If your cat loves to be around your computer...

Michiko — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 02:03:00 GMT

My cat was walking on my keyboard while I was working from home this morning.
Later I saw this cat furniture in my friend's blog. I think the furniture looks pretty good
if the cat stays in the box all the time...

http://www.therefinedfeline.com/kitinbox-cat-perch.htm

Looking for SP1 Beta document?

Michiko — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 03:45:00 GMT

I got couple of questions about the MSDN Library for Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1 Beta from users.
MSDN Offline Library is not included in the VS2008 SP1. The Beta doc is available online only.

VS2008 SP1 Beta documentation
http://vs2008sp1docs.msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/default.aspx

Online Search from MSDN Offline Library

Michiko — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 05:26:00 GMT

Recently I received couple of questions regarding Online search from MSDN Offline Library from the people who were having trouble searching online topics.
Some people were using multiple language version of MSDN Library. Some people were using localized version of MSDN Library on the English OS or the other way around.

If you have internet connection but can't search from MSDN Offline Library please check following settings in the Tool - Option menu before you report a bug.

       Tool - Option
                 Help - General: See if "Online Topic language:" is set to the language you want and see if "Also show English topics" is checked.
                 Help - Online:   See if "Try local only, not online" is selected.
                 International Setting - See if the language setting is correct.
                 Web Browser: Check the Search page URL. If your online search is not working try search.msdn.microsoft.com

For example somebody who's using French MSDN Library on the English OS and wants to search French topic, check the topic language is set to French.
People who's getting 0 (zero) MSDN online result, make sure "Try local only" is not selected in the Help - Online setting.