SQL Server User Education : feedback

Announcing New Technology Page Design

SQLServerUE — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 04:13:00 GMT

The SQL Server Developer Center on MSDN and TechCenter on TechNet contain what are called "navigation pages" because their primary purpose is to navigate you to more information and resources. For example, one path you might take starting from the Developer Center home page is to click Versions under the home tab, then SQL Server 2008.

From this page, you might click one of the technology pages for a technology you were interested in (for example, Database Engine) to get a list of resources and content relating to Database Engine topics.

However, if you had selected Integration Services, you would see the newly updated navigation page design. This design has several great new features, including:

Scoped Search. This may be the most valuable new feature. The Get Help section allows you to enter your Search terms and the results returned to you will be automatically scoped to results that are part of the Integration Services documentation set in the Library.
Get Started. Resources linked from this section were hand-picked by one of our Integration Services Writers as being the "best" learning resources for a beginner.
Recent Releases and Downloads. A fairly self-explanitory section, this will be kept up-to-date with the latest items available.
Community Buzz. Find out what others in the Community are saying about or relating to Integration Services topics.
MVP Corner. This section will showcase an MVP member of the Community each month.
Other items. "Below the fold" you will find links to many other resources including:

More downloads
Technical articles and white papers
Videos
Podcasts and Webcasts
Documentation
Knowledge Base Search
Code Samples
Blog posts
Forums
External Web sites
Books

We on the documentation team are very excited about the new design, and we hope you like it. But even if you don't, or something is missing that you would like to see, please let us know. Our goal is to roll out similarly designed navigation pages for the other technologies, so Reporting Services, Database Engine, and so forth, would all get pages in this design.

To send your feedback on the Integration Services navigation page design, you can do either of the following:

Use the "Rate and Give Feedback" control on the top right of the page. First click one of the stars to give the page a Rating, then a box will open up where you can type your comments and send them in.

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Comment this blog post.

Either way, we'll take the feedback, whether it is positive or negative.

Tai Yee
SQL Server User Education

Let Us Know What You Think of the New Design for the SQL Server TechCenter

SQLServerUE — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 02:24:00 GMT

A new design for the SQL Server TechCenter has now been released. This design was based on the ones currently being piloted on the Visual Basic Developer Center and Visual C# Developer Center. When visiting the site, be sure to use the Rating Control near the top right of the page to tell us how much or how little you like the new design. One star = hate it, five stars = love it.

Also, we would very much like to hear your thoughts and comments about this design. Please comment here with any feedback, positive or negative, we want it all!

Tai Yee
Microsoft SQL Server User Education

Please Give Feedback on Documentation

SQLServerUE — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 18:49:00 GMT

We rely on your feedback to help define and improve our documentation. Please feel free to send feedback to the documentation team regarding any of the following issues:

· When you feel a topic is particularly effective or ineffective and why you felt that way. We look at feedback on effective topics to continue doing the things that make them effective (for example, good examples, screenshots, etc.) and feedback on ineffective topics in order to improve them.

· When the topic doesn't reflect the product behavior (i.e. there's a bug in the documentation).

· When an important use case or scenario is not covered or more documentation or examples are needed.

We receive feedback both from topics that you view through the local help viewer and on topics that you view in the MSDN/TechNet Library. However, the way that you send feedback via each of these mechanisms differs:

To provide feedback from a topic in the local help viewer:

1. In the topic about which you want to provide feedback, click the Send Feedback link at the top right of the page, select a rating (optional), and click Send Feedback. This creates a feedback email using you default mail program.

2. Enter your feedback in the body of the email message. Do not alter the subject line.

3. Send the email message.

Note: Feedback from local help is not anonymous, so please let us know if you do not want to be contacted.

To provide feedback from a topic in the MSDN Library or TechNet Library

1. In the topic about which you want to provide feedback, move your mouse over the Click to Rate and Give Feedback link at the top right of the page, and then enter your feedback in displayed area. MSDN feedback is anonymous, so include your name and email address if are willing to be contacted in case we need more information from you.

2. Select a star rating based on your perception of the topic, with 5 stars as best and 1 star as worst.

3. Click Send.

You can send us feedback on any of our documentation sets in the MSDN Library:

· SQL Server 2008 Books Online

· SQL Server 2005 Books Online

· SQL Server Express Books Online

· SQL Server Compact 3.5 Books Online

· SQL Server Compact 3.1 Books Online

· SQL Server 2005 JDBC Driver 1.1 Documentation

· ADO.NET Entity Framework Beta 2 documentation

· Synchronization Services for ADO.NET documentation

Tai Yee

Microsoft SQL Server User Education