Searching in MSDN

Friday, September 5, 2003

.NET General

I would like to know your actual experience with MSDN.

Mine is a bad one, the site is worst and worst everyday.

Searching something or looking for new stuff is not really a pleasant time.

The navigation system is also so slow, and inconsistent where you have a dropdown submenu on the top level, and deeper a tree view !

Sorry for the rant, but MSDN suppose to be an helpful resources center, and there is like searching a needle in a haystack :-(
This site need really a huge clean up !

So if somebody from Microsoft read this please do something. Unlike many colleagues, I don't have the luxury to have a fast backbone Internet access, and like everybody not a huge amount of time to understand how to write a search sentence compatible with the MSDN rules.

3 Comments

It's a pity becuase I read somewhere that the Search was supposed to be an improvement.

In my mind, I call that more a step BACKWARD then forward ;-)

Paschal - Friday, September 5, 2003 12:13:00 PM

yeah i have some of the most obscene search results... for instance searching on the exact title of a page in the C# refrence section turned up with 0 results... then a search for "params" turns up empty etc... seems like when you get a 0 result search you get stuck there and no matter what your look for it always returns nothing...

it's very frustrating indeed...

Ray Jezek - Friday, September 5, 2003 1:31:00 PM

If you want to search MSDN, use Google.

kpako@yahoo.com (Dare Obasanjo) - Friday, September 5, 2003 1:42:00 PM

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