Comment Feed for MSDN/TechNet Site Redesign: More Useful, Better Experience and Search Really Works :) (Charles on Channel 9)

Re: MSDN/TechNet Site Redesign: More Useful, Better Experience and Search Really Works :)

Craig Miller — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 02:12:28 GMT

I like the new skin, but they still didn't fix it so that when I click on a link from two years ago to MSDN content, they still work? It seems like every change they make breaks all old links, without any kind of redirection to the new links, and then I have to use Google search for wherever the content was moved to. Also did they fix it so that when you print a multiple page document in Firefox, you get more then just one page out of the printer?

Re: MSDN/TechNet Site Redesign: More Useful, Better Experience and Search Really Works :)

Charles — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 17:41:29 GMT

WillFa wrote:
Nice... So when is the search on channel9.msdn.com going to be fixed/updated? Search for "mesh ori amiga" and you get no hits. Searching for "mesh" is old stale hits. "mesh programming" is old stale hits...

"mesh ori amiga" on google returns the desired link to the "Programming the Mesh" Channel 9 video first, right at the top...

The new Channel 9 site (see it in action here in RC form: http://beta.channel9.msdn.com) has a much improved search mechanism...

C

Re: MSDN/TechNet Site Redesign: More Useful, Better Experience and Search Really Works :)

WillFa — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 08:27:20 GMT

Nice... So when is the search on channel9.msdn.com going to be fixed/updated? Search for "mesh ori amiga" and you get no hits. Searching for "mesh" is old stale hits. "mesh programming" is old stale hits... :P

"mesh ori amiga" on google returns the desired link to the "Programming the Mesh" Channel 9 video first, right at the top...

Re: MSDN/TechNet Site Redesign: More Useful, Better Experience and Search Really Works :)

DuNuNuBatman — Fri, 30 May 2008 16:40:20 GMT

I don't seem to have that issue anymore.

Re: MSDN/TechNet Site Redesign: More Useful, Better Experience and Search Really Works :)

tshak — Fri, 30 May 2008 00:06:20 GMT

Hi DuNuNuBatman,

Could you please post the entire URL you are visiting and the browser (name, version, language) you are seeing this issue with?

Thanks!

-TSHAK

Re: MSDN/TechNet Site Redesign: More Useful, Better Experience and Search Really Works :)

Charles — Thu, 29 May 2008 23:32:45 GMT

schildb wrote:
How do I get to the "Expression" site shown in the video?

http://www.microsoft.com/expression/

C

Re: MSDN/TechNet Site Redesign: More Useful, Better Experience and Search Really Works :)

schildb — Thu, 29 May 2008 23:16:39 GMT

How do I get to the "Expression" site shown in the video?

Re: MSDN/TechNet Site Redesign: More Useful, Better Experience and Search Really Works :)

umer_a — Thu, 29 May 2008 14:49:11 GMT

"CHM basket" tool allowing user to add favorite articles to the basket and generate a chm file when desired.

Re: MSDN/TechNet Site Redesign: More Useful, Better Experience and Search Really Works :)

DuNuNuBatman — Thu, 29 May 2008 02:56:17 GMT

Now I'm getting what looks like a lot of Chinese characters in the library section.

Re: MSDN/TechNet Site Redesign: More Useful, Better Experience and Search Really Works :)

gdesroches — Thu, 29 May 2008 01:27:21 GMT

The site looks good. I'm glad the endless stream of redirects for MSDN Subscriber Downloads has finally been fixed. :-)

However, I am still unable to use Subscriber Downloads with Firefox. When I select an item and click "Download," it tries to download an aspx file. Is there any tweaking I can do, or do you guys still insist on me opening IE for this web site?

Re: MSDN/TechNet Site Redesign: More Useful, Better Experience and Search Really Works :)

calin_iaru — Wed, 28 May 2008 23:14:43 GMT

I use Opera to search from the address bar over msdn.com. Right click on the search box, Create Search and with most of the sites, such as live, it works. Can this be fixed in msdn? I could finally type "m CreateFile" then.