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  1. 840 votes
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      54 comments  ·  Library (Reference Docs)  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
    • Have better explanations for MSDN library topics

      Many of the topics are very poor documented or documented with meaningless information which can be understood from the name of the class or property.

      290 votes
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        15 comments  ·  Library (Reference Docs)  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
      • Syntax highlight on the website msdn.com

        Please , make the website User Friendly.

        The code looks terrible , because it is in black color . Why aren't you using any syntax highlight ? Look at the other sites with c# or any code . They highlight the CODE , and then it becomes readable.

        This website is good , and the tutorials and examples are awesome, but the fact that there is not SH , makes me skip msdn.com website and look for another page.

        279 votes
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          5 comments  ·  Library (Reference Docs)  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
        • Date stamp all articles in order to make it easier to know how how fresh the information is.

          Date stamp all articles in order to make it easier to know how how fresh the information is.

          218 votes
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            5 comments  ·  Library (Reference Docs)  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
          • PLEASE fix the site navigation! Hire someone who can organize all the content.

            The tree on the left always reflects incomplete info on the topic. I use Google to search MSDN. As an example, why are these in different places?

            http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh510230.aspx
            http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn135328(v=sql.110).aspx

            163 votes
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              9 comments  ·  Library (Reference Docs)  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
            • Give Code Example with Screen Shots.

              Examplain and Give Code examples with screen shots. In the examples there are steps and code deployment which are lack of screen shots. The screen shots (output result) should be also there.

              129 votes
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                5 comments  ·  Library (Reference Docs)  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
              • MSDN Site should be a responsive site, as your microsoft.com site is.

                MSDN Site should responsive site, as your microsot.com site is.

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                  0 comments  ·  Library (Reference Docs)  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
                • add an option to run the sample program

                  It will be nice if there is an option attached to every sample program that is provided in the documentation, so it comes handy to check the results by oneself

                  47 votes
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                    2 comments  ·  Library (Reference Docs)  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →

                    That’s the general direction we are going. We just released Office 365 APIs documentation that features interactive APIs to Try REST calls from the page (e.g. Try buttons under GET request at http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/office/office365/api/mail-rest-operations#MessageoperationsGetmessages) and a Sandbox to run and play with code samples (e.g. Open button under JavaScript samples at http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/office/office365/howto/common-mail-tasks-client-library) . At this point the Sandbox is only capable to run JavaScript, but more languages and more APIs are coming soon… stay tuned!

                    (for more information see Brian Harry’s blog http://blogs.msdn.com/b/bharry/archive/2014/10/28/teched-europe-2014-news.aspx)

                  • Fix the links in the MSDN documentation.

                    All too many MSDN articles contain links to internal Microsoft documentation that are no longer valid. I realize this is a Sisyphean task given constant changes to MS web structure, but it is critical nonetheless.

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                      1 comment  ·  Library (Reference Docs)  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
                    • Add 1 or 2 small example with each property and method.or Add some detail explaination of property and method

                      when user go through the library, he/she found that method or property detail given at site is not sufficient to understand the concept.to solve this
                      1. Add more detail in explanation of property or method
                      2. Give reference link to understand properly, currently provided reference link is not relevant
                      3. Add the some small example in the property or method explaination

                      47 votes
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                      • Please make a settings at MSDN site to never ever ever display articles translated to Russian or any other language

                        Please make a settings at MSDN site to never ever ever display articles translated to Russian or any other language.
                        I'm Russian but it is very hard to read articles that were translated to Russian.

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                        • Please add screen shot because "Picture is more than 1000 words"

                          Please add screen shot because "Picture is more than 1000 words".

                          43 votes
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                            1 comment  ·  Library (Reference Docs)  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
                          • provide screenshots and examples

                            This is new but...provide screenshots with examples

                            31 votes
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                              0 comments  ·  Library (Reference Docs)  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
                            • please give some real life programming examples to illustrate the use of oops concept in c#

                              The example given gives an idea. But how this concepts are applied in some real life concepts please explain.
                              and give some programming examples that uses all the oops concepts together in a particular program.

                              25 votes
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                                0 comments  ·  Library (Reference Docs)  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
                              • Show me related content within the MSDN Library

                                When I visit a Library article I would like to see other related articles within the Library. Very often I find the reference docs, but then it's difficult to find more conceptual articles, or vice versa.

                                24 votes
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                                • Where content is declared to be retired, it would be great if it was listed as obsolete or provided links to updated\superceding content

                                  Where content is declared to be retired, it would be great if it was listed as obsolete or provided links to updated\superceding content.

                                  23 votes
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                                  • Add simple code examples with sample inputs and sample outputs.

                                    Add simple code examples with sample inputs and sample outputs like if you were explaining it to a baby or a non-technical person.

                                    23 votes
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                                    • give a download link above the article

                                      give a download link above the article

                                      22 votes
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                                      • Organize SDK Reference Material by Technology and Layers

                                        When developing systems using a particular technology, it would be helpful and more productive to be on a sub-site that only provides reference material, examples, community feedback, usage, and bug reports related to that technology. No links on a sub-site would catapult you into material that is not relevant to that site (as happens so frequently today).

                                        Organizing these sites by layers and always showing the layer you are at would provide additional visibility into how technologies are structured. For example: DDK, Native NT, Windows API (formerly Win32 API), .NET, etc. This same organization technique could also be used to…

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                                          1 comment  ·  Library (Reference Docs)  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
                                        • add more dynamics videos for getting started, especially in regards to the development environment; where there are none

                                          specific commonly used functions, methods, ways of doing things so that learning C/AL code becomes easy not hard......

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