Talk:Microsoft Developer Network

Is there a Wikipedia style guide entry that applies to the special formatting suggested in a recent edit to this article for "simple URLs" ? Bevo 17:49, 7 Jan 2004 (UTC)

My mistake—it used to be Wikipedia style, but isn't anymore. See this discussion. Sorry! I reverted my edit. —Frecklefoot 18:22, 7 Jan 2004 (UTC)

an MSDN account

Who wants to know and why? — Frecklefoot | Talk 18:32, August 3, 2005 (UTC)

How much does an MSDN subscription cost? --CanesOL79 18:02, 29 March 2006 (UTC)Reply

http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/howtobuy/ , cheers --84.166.78.10 08:53, 30 May 2006 (UTC)Reply

No operating system surpasses Unix and its variants for the telegraphic style of its MAN pages. MAN (for manual) pages purport to document the user interface of Unix, to include how to add users to /etc/passwd, configure a web or ftp server, and setup a Network File System. Authors of MAN pages assume that the reader is a dyed-in-wool Unix fanatic with years of Unix experience and familiarity with Unix operating system source code. So MAN pages exist merely to refresh the memory and not to teach.

MSDN is a tiered offering for distribution of information and mostly operating system software to developers for cheap. Microsoft's equivalent to MAN page authors keep the faith by explaining little and promising nothing -- the better to keep nuisance tort suits at bay. The only way to understand MSDN API documentation, without going crazy, is to read between the lines and experiment.

Microsoft compensates for the lack of quality in its documentation with disorganized quantity. You can wear out several pairs of eyeballs perusing content-free paragraphs and come away believing that, surely, you wasted your time.--72.75.117.221 04:14, 8 January 2007 (UTC)Reply

Okay, but did you actually have anything to say about the article? — Frecklefoot | Talk 15:08, 8 January 2007 (UTC)Reply

I have an MSDN account and would be happy to answer any questions people might have. I have a Pro account, not premium, so I don't quite have full access. I can however access most sections. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Woogychuck (talk • contribs) 18:15, 28 December 2007 (UTC)Reply

is this supposed to mean "The life cycle of the relationships" mikeL 22 10 09 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.238.234.205 (talk) 09:51, 22 October 2009 (UTC)Reply

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First I will say that I have both of the beta copies of the MSDN on CD-ROM. I do not remember when the MSDN went online, I think it would be worthwhile to include that information in the history.

I think, but I am not sure, that saying that the 2004 reorganization of the MSDN was primarily for Visual Studio 2005 API information is misleading. As best as I remember it was a total reorganization. I had a website with sample code and I had extensive links to the MSDN and all those links were broken by the reorganization and the difference in the old and new links were more than simply changing MSDN to MSDN2. Perhaps "Visual Studio 2005 API" is referring to the Windows API, not the VS API. Probably the 2004 reorganization should just be called a reorganization and improvement. Sam Tomato (talk) 20:17, 2 February 2018 (UTC)Reply

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