Wilco just posted a new Tool he is working on.

Take a look at the screen shot.  Wicked cool.  Reminds me of the php docs. (for example http://php.net/fopen)

My biggest gripe about MSFT’s MSDN library is that it really sucks for community contributions.  Php.net has been doing this for years and is an excessively valuable part of their community.  If your concerned about spammers or illegal/illicit comments you can limit those who can actually post/moderate submissions based on their community involvement, for example MVP’s and/or AspInsiders; or even MSFT employee's.

The second thing that I would like to see is nagivation urls which are user friendly.  For example, hitting the url  http://msdn.microsoft.com/DeleteValue should make a good guess as to what I want.  Right now it just comes back as a 404, unacceptable.  It should be able to search the entire framework (and other useful documentation libraries at MSFT) and return back a list of links related to that item.  If there is a single item, just direct me to that page instead. (again, copy how php.net does it).

What about:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/net/DeleteValue  Search’s just the .NET Framework section

http://msdn.microsoft.com/directx/foo   Limited to just DirectX section

and of course http://msdn.microsoft.com/System.Web.HttpContext  would be smart enough to pick up the namespace/class regardless of the section.

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