Xena content notifications:
Probably one of the most common questions I'm ever asked is, "how can I find out what has been posted on Subscriber Downloads?" There are two short answers:
1. http://msdn.microsoft.com/subscriptions has a fairly current list of the 10 most recently published downloads, I believe this list is updated weekly.
2. RSS. If you're technical enough to find this blog, then you're probably using RSS already. But, for those of us who are living in a spider hole, RSS is an XML-based system for pushing updates of content articles to an RSS reader application. Remember all that "Push" stuff in IE4? Sort of like that except it doesn't suck. There are a bunch of RSS feeds being published just in MSDN (see http://msdn.microsoft.com/aboutmsdn/rss/default.aspx), and we have also created an RSS feed for newly posted MSDN Subscriber Downloads content. So, configure your RSS reader (there are a bunch of freeware ones available, see the above link) to subscribe to http://msdn.microsoft.com/subscriptions/rss.xml. The feed will publish the title of the download, date, folder path, and the content levels that get that download.
A few notes:
The RSS feed publishes all content in all languages. So, there's currently no "English only" feed, though I may create one if enough people ask for it. Of course, if I create and English Only feed, I'll have to create a Japanese Only, German Only, Croatian Only, etc - so I'm not keen to do it.
Also, "all content" means that there are things shown in the feed that you may not get. Many subscribers can't download Volume License code from Xena, even though they receive VL media. There are actually some pretty good reasons for this (which I may get into at a later date) but the downloads will show in the feed even though you don't get them if someone else does.