11 Facts About MSDN

MSDN Library is a library of official technical documentation intended for independent developers of software for Microsoft Windows.

In Visual Studio 2010 MSDN Library is replaced with the new Help System, which is installed as a part of Visual Studio 2010 installation.

MSDN Forums are the web-based forums used by the community to discuss a wide variety of software development topics.

MSDN Forums were migrated to an all-new platform during 2008 that provided new features designed to improve efficiency such as inline preview of threads, AJAX filtering, and a slide-up post editor.

MSDN blogs is a series of blogs that were hosted under Microsoft's domain blogs.

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Social bookmarking on MSDN Social was first launched in 2008, built on a new web platform that has user-tagging and feeds at its core.

MSDN Gallery is a repository of community-authored code samples and projects.

MSDN has historically offered a subscription package whereby developers have access and licenses to use nearly all Microsoft software that has ever been released to the public.

MSDN Magazine was available as a print magazine in the United States, and online in 11 languages.

MSDN was launched in September 1992 as a quarterly, CD-ROM-based compilation of technical articles, sample code, and software development kits.

MSDN2 was opened in November 2004 as a source for Visual Studio 2005 API information, with noteworthy differences being updated web site code, conforming better to web standards and thus giving a long-awaited improved support for alternative web browsers to Internet Explorer in the API browser.