MSDN Link Spring Cleaning

Every year or so the folks who manage the MSDN and TechNet websites decide to update the site is some way and pretty much break every single URL referring to their content. Traditionally this hasn’t affected MSDN Magazine but the magazine now joins the club and older links to MSDN Magazine articles no longer work either.

Since most of my articles are either published by MSDN or MSDN Magazine this obviously affects me. Although it’s too much work to go through all my blog posts and update the links, I updated all the links on my articles archive page a few days ago so that you can easily find one of my previous articles online:

Kenny’s Articles

Hope that helps.

2 Comments

  • So much for SEO (Search Engine Optimization)... omeone should introduce the MSDN Team to URL Templating & Routing to make the site more RESTful for users (including search-engines).

  • Brian Henderson: they did actually attempt a link-friendly system with URL rewriting which was nice but I think the MSDN content base is just too massive and with all the languages they support it just becomes a nightmare. That project seems to have been canned as I can't find it anymore. I'd be happy if they just used guids as long as they stopped breaking the links.

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