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MSDN Wiki Discontinued for WDK Documentation

We’ve decided to shut off the Community Content (aka “wiki”) section of WDK documentation on MSDN.
 
A few months ago I provided this blog post, which questioned the usefulness of the Community Content feature for WDK documentation. Your responses to that post, and other feedback that we have received, confirmed our impression that the Community Content feature is providing little value to our customers.
 
We continue to value your feedback about our documentation. We encourage you to point out errors and provide suggestions, and to send them to us by clicking on the “send feedback” link that’s at the bottom of each topic. The link appears both in the offline documentation that installs with the kit and in the online version on MSDN.
 
Community Content removal coincides with the Windows 7 RTM update of WDK documentation on MSDN.
 
  — Richard Brown [MSFT], WDK Senior Programming Writer
 
Published Friday, August 21, 2009 5:32 AM by wdkblog

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Friday, August 28, 2009 5:23 PM by Chad

# re: MSDN Wiki Discontinued for WDK Documentation

I am curious whether anyone actually finds MSDN useful at all, wiki or no. It's just a colossal pile of listed Namespaces and functions without any useful documentation. I have become curious about developing apps with WPF. It's a smart approach separating design and code. BUT over the last month I have been trying to learn about the methods in .NET 3.5 and all I have to show for it is basically zilch. It is astounding that Microsoft would create a huge site like MSDN, but just utterly blow it in providing practical "This function is used for:" and parameter definition info. Does Microsoft not want developers to make WPF and Silverlight competitive? I feel swindled for for even considering doing so. The wiki might have had problems, but it must have been better than a giant list of nothing  

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