Monthly Archives: September 2010

How big is the MSDN Library – and why should you care?

By Jeff Braaten | Published: September 15, 2010

As of September 2010, the MSDN Library provides online access to over 16 million topics of Microsoft technical and product documentation.  What exactly is a topic?  In layman’s terms a topic is simply a page authored for users to view.  From a database perspective, it is a unique content item with an XHTML representation.  Other […]

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Announcing the Lightweight TechNet Library (Beta)

By Jeff Braaten | Published: September 6, 2010

As many of you have noticed, the Lightweight TechNet Library is now live on TechNet.  The Lightweight view offers improved page load times over the Classic (default) view along with a simpler, cleaner presentation.  Our plan is to make Lightweight the default Library view on TechNet after a brief Beta period. Please give Lightweight a try and let us […]

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