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It's weird to read all the complaints about how bad https://msdn.microsoft.com/ is. For quite some time all the documentation including what was known as MSDN is now on https://docs.microsoft.com/.

While I'm sure the complaints are valid (or was in the MSDN days) I believe Microsoft is putting a lot of effort behind these pages. You can provide feedback on pages that will result in a GitHub issue being created. You can even make pull requests.

While it's possible to provide feedback not all areas seem to process this feedback in a timely manner which of course is frustrating. However, the good parts (like .NET) are very good.

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coredog64 | karma 3819 | avg karma 2.1 · | 2017-12-05 18:21:43

It's not like Microsoft doesn't have examples to draw on: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FX!32

oblio | karma 25694 | avg karma 2.47 · | 2015-12-05 16:47:07

I know it's off-topic, but since you're a Microsoft employee: haven't the MSDN guys ever heard about friendly URLs? Compare: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Projects/Sp...

(I'm guessing this would be at least the milionth time they hear about it :) )

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jitl | karma 10669 | avg karma 4.55 · | 2021-10-27 18:09:20

Microsoft is building a web component framework: https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/fluentui#/get-started/...

grimgrin | karma 1524 | avg karma 4.03 · | 2016-03-03 10:18:23

Looks like it's an old naming convention of theirs:

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms173075(v=vs.80).a...

At least as far back as Visual Studio 2005.

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pjmlp | karma 109153 | avg karma 1.76 · | 2022-09-16 09:38:41

Not sure how easier such target audience would find these alternatives,

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/makecode

https://smallbasic-publicwebsite.azurewebsites.net/ (partially dead)

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wallyhs | karma 40 | avg karma 0.85 · | 2017-10-11 20:03:53+00:00

It's a feature for developers:

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc144096(VS.85).asp...

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cHalgan | karma 213 | avg karma 2.84 · | 2011-09-18 12:00:48

Microsoft did something here: http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/farsite/

emddudley | karma 772 | avg karma 2.63 · | 2012-08-23 11:23:44

Actually I noticed that they've recently started leaving off the .aspx extension on their MSDN pages.

For example: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/tt0cf3sx

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alexkavon | karma 891 | avg karma 3.17 · | 2015-12-10 16:52:19

MS devkit? Like this: https://msdn.microsoft.com/library/windows/apps/br211377.asp...

nopassrecover | karma 3571 | avg karma 2.79 · | 2012-11-28 12:59:56+00:00

Isn't this somewhat related to the goal of the Roslyn CTP (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/roslyn.aspx)?

steveklabnik | karma 91260 | avg karma 5.08 · | 2021-12-09 13:26:01

Not just that, but like, https://github.com/microsoft/windows-rs. Microsoft is a member of the Rust Foundation. etc etc.

gprasanth | karma 797 | avg karma 3.07 · | 2012-10-24 09:39:17+00:00

A friend of mine actually does this. He's an MS hire. No wonder he figured it out long ago :)

http://coderuns.co.cc/

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Animats | karma 143047 | avg karma 6.11 · | 2023-04-04 00:25:19

Is this related to being an MSDN member?[1] Is this another marketing channel to get devs to build for Microsoft target platforms?

[1] https://social.msdn.microsoft.com/profile

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Zev | karma 2386 | avg karma 1.73 · | 2008-07-31 20:47:56

http://www.microsoft.com/business/startups/default.aspx might not be exactly the same thing, but its not like MS is sitting on the sidelines when it comes to startups.