I have been trying to get the Essential Resources for Developers to display on my box to see what it has. Each time I insert it into the computer, the computer stops responding and then I have to power cycle the box to get it back. I am able to look at the disc on my Linux system but that only ...

Hi, I have a question. Our company has a Gold Partnership with MS. Have tried to search in the MSDN Login, but its a Information Jungle out there, no logical way to find anything because its so much of everything. We should have access to Tech KB's that end-users will not be able to find in ...

The MSDN and TechNet Subscriptions Team is working on some significant updates and improvements to the Subscriber Downloads User Experience. As we move ahead, a question has been posed about the use of the SHA1 Hash and ISO/CRC values for the Subscriber Downloads content. Do subscribers use ...

Has anyone else not been able to retrieve Product Keys from the subscriber downloads area? Everytime I've tried to load the Product Keys page for the past 2 days I've gotten an "Application Error" page. - J

<font face=Arial size=2>At one time, the MSDN wiki showed who'd contributed the most content, both in total and in the recent past. This appears to be gone? Is it planned to come back?</font>

The MSDN and TechNet Subscriptions Team is working on some significant updates and improvements to the Subscriber Downloads User Experience. As we move ahead, a question has been posed about the use of the SHA1 Hash and ISO/CRC values for the Subscriber Downloads content. Do subscribers use ...

<font face=Arial size=2>At one time, the MSDN wiki showed who'd contributed the most content, both in total and in the recent past. This appears to be gone? Is it planned to come back?</font>

The MSDN Server keeps crapping out, folks! How are people supposed to get their work done in Visual Studio when MSDN keeps crapping out, givne that Visual Studio users depend on MSDN for basic documentation!It (Visual Studio's dependence on MSDN for basic documentation) is utterly frustrating ...

looks like someone needs to man the console on ns1.msft.net because the cross-site authentication mechanism fails on lookup to "*.dns.microsoft.com". I'll skip the details since query params contain GUIDS :-( cheers ~t2 ...

The MSDN Server keeps crapping out, folks! How are people supposed to get their work done in Visual Studio when MSDN keeps crapping out, givne that Visual Studio users depend on MSDN for basic documentation!It (Visual Studio's dependence on MSDN for basic documentation) is utterly frustrating ...

Hi, alrite... doing me MCSA 2003 here, something i should have finished 2 years ago but blah blah blah boring *** bollocks lets not go there... anyhows question... now that i am doing it thing i wanted to ask is... with all this new and "supposedly" overwhelming (microsoft you should ...

<font face=Arial size=2>At one time, the MSDN wiki showed who'd contributed the most content, both in total and in the recent past. This appears to be gone? Is it planned to come back?</font>

Can anyone tell me what might be preventing me from accsessing the msdn2 web site? I can access any other web site such as this forum but any link with msdn2 in it hangs. At first I thought it was just slow but it's been months since I have been able to access the .Net class library. Thanks ...

I recently installed ,NET 2005. The Upgrade warning links are broken and all produce a webpage: "Sorry no topics were found for the selected link" The upgrade warning links were working in my .net 2003 system. Is there something else I need to install ? Thanks ...

I can't find the Platform SDK download in the MSDN. I assume I will find it eventually, but most people will either not find it or will also have difficulty finding it. Anyone that has not downloaded the SDK previously will probably give up before finding it. I did go to "Downloads" ...

I can't find the Platform SDK download in the MSDN. I assume I will find it eventually, but most people will either not find it or will also have difficulty finding it. Anyone that has not downloaded the SDK previously will probably give up before finding it. I did go to "Downloads" ...

I am not sure where to ask this question: when i go to http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/default.aspx i get in the bottom left of my browser 'done, but with errors on page'. Does this always occur on this page, i also can't resize the left column of the web page. Can this be fixed? I would ...

<font size=2><span style="font-family:Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Sans-serif">How is this forum distinct from the "Suggestions for forum website" and "Bug reports for forum website" forums? </span></font>

I am continiously using search engines to find documentation and more.i think there is a problem with the MSDN search engine. It does not provide relevant results.for exemple, if you try "compact framework .net 2 redist", it will find some results concerning the compact framework, ...

The MSDN Server keeps crapping out, folks! How are people supposed to get their work done in Visual Studio when MSDN keeps crapping out, givne that Visual Studio users depend on MSDN for basic documentation!It (Visual Studio's dependence on MSDN for basic documentation) is utterly frustrating ...

Hi!I don't know whether this the right place to report this or not.The Unix Application Migration Guide is now down. Can it be brought back up? Also, again probably wrong place to mention this, I really appreciate the release of the Unix Custom Application Migration Guide under the Creative ...

Hi there, When i try to enter a Server 2003 virtual lab, i get to the point where i press the button to enter the lab, the new window opens, but displays the microsoft page not found error (URL: ...

I am continiously using search engines to find documentation and more.i think there is a problem with the MSDN search engine. It does not provide relevant results.for exemple, if you try "compact framework .net 2 redist", it will find some results concerning the compact framework, ...

<font face="Times New Roman" size=2>If you want to download and view an old web cast must it be on a laptop, etc. with Live Meeting installed? Or can you convert the video to something more portable?</font>

Hi, alrite... doing me MCSA 2003 here, something i should have finished 2 years ago but blah blah blah boring *** bollocks lets not go there... anyhows question... now that i am doing it thing i wanted to ask is... with all this new and "supposedly" overwhelming (microsoft you should ...

<font face=Arial size=2>I notice that many examples are missing under many topics. Would you please put them back? I know it is a huge job to put them back, but it must have been a huge job for you to take them out a few years ago.</font>

Hi there, When i try to enter a Server 2003 virtual lab, i get to the point where i press the button to enter the lab, the new window opens, but displays the microsoft page not found error (URL: ...

<font face="Times New Roman" size=2>If you want to download and view an old web cast must it be on a laptop, etc. with Live Meeting installed? Or can you convert the video to something more portable?</font>

Hi, I am facing "No Connection" problem while connecting to labs. I am behind corporate proxy server. Nevertheless I provide all proxy server details in the "No Connection" dialog box. Still I am not able to connect to the labs. Our 443 port is also open. Also our ...

Can anyone tell me what might be preventing me from accsessing the msdn2 web site? I can access any other web site such as this forum but any link with msdn2 in it hangs. At first I thought it was just slow but it's been months since I have been able to access the .Net class library. Thanks ...

MSDN and TS2 event = why are they at the same time and same day = afternoon from 1-5? Y’all use to have morning and afternoon = 1 of each so we could attend. So what do we do now = sign up for each event and go back and fourth? Or are y’all going to change the times so it will be convenient for ...

I hope it is appropriate for me to post this here. I tried to go to Microsoft MVP Site and I got a page saying "Sorry, the page you requested is not available.". In that page is a link to go to it; when I click it, I get the same error page, even with the link to go to itself. ...

The new (?) library pages, eg: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.windows.forms.bindingsource(vs.80).aspx are unbelievably slow to use because of the long time needed to download the tree in the left-hand pane every time you change pages! You can't do anything (scroll up, down ...

It seems almost impossible to download any MSDN webcast at present. Once you get past the huge number of registration pages and finally get to the download link, download speeds are only about 20Kb/sec at present. Most of the time the connection gets reset so you have to restart the download ...

I was referred to this site by a friend of mine, and this is my first time ever visiting this site, so please forgive my lack of knowledge of this site, but is there a forum I can post questions about Visual Studio C++ 6.0 in? I'm a student at ITT Technical in Grand Rapids, Michigan, and I ...

I am continiously using search engines to find documentation and more.i think there is a problem with the MSDN search engine. It does not provide relevant results.for exemple, if you try "compact framework .net 2 redist", it will find some results concerning the compact framework, ...

There was a time - before the "new and improved" TechNet when one could post a problem on the TechNet user forum of your choice and within 24hrs some MVP or similar would reply with a whole bunch of good ideas and recommendations on how to get round the issue. Not anymore it would ...

Hi, I cant go to the subscriber download section on technet because the web site certificate expired 3 hours ago!!! The irony of that is I was about to go download the new certificate licecycle manager. Hope that someone will renew this certificate asap.

It seems almost impossible to download any MSDN webcast at present. Once you get past the huge number of registration pages and finally get to the download link, download speeds are only about 20Kb/sec at present. Most of the time the connection gets reset so you have to restart the download ...

I recently installed ,NET 2005. The Upgrade warning links are broken and all produce a webpage: "Sorry no topics were found for the selected link" The upgrade warning links were working in my .net 2003 system. Is there something else I need to install ? Thanks ...

The new (?) library pages, eg: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.windows.forms.bindingsource(vs.80).aspx are unbelievably slow to use because of the long time needed to download the tree in the left-hand pane every time you change pages! You can't do anything (scroll up, down ...

After I finish taking any "Virtual Lab" they do not show up as "Completed" in "My Events". Is there a certain procedure I must perform to have them show as completed?

There was a time - before the "new and improved" TechNet when one could post a problem on the TechNet user forum of your choice and within 24hrs some MVP or similar would reply with a whole bunch of good ideas and recommendations on how to get round the issue. Not anymore it would ...

It seems almost impossible to download any MSDN webcast at present. Once you get past the huge number of registration pages and finally get to the download link, download speeds are only about 20Kb/sec at present. Most of the time the connection gets reset so you have to restart the download ...

I'm unable to download the On-demand webcasts. when I signup and complete all the pre-requsites and I get a option "Download the recording for offline viewing" . When I try to download that I'm just getting a windows media file named "downloadLMM" of size less than 1MB. ...

What about all that “dog food” stuff ? why are we still refreshing the whole page when we click a node in the tree, cant believe it still happens in 2007 and that too on the msdn site ? Infragistics (I don’t work for them but I use it) has some cool tree and ui controls and many other 3rd ...

I could not find a good place to post this, so I'll try here. Why might it be that examples do not show up on the class description pages (even on ones where they used to)?an example is http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.windows.documents.editingcommands.backspace.aspxSome pages ...

I am having problems downloading beginner tutorials and MSDN web pages load slow. Also MSDN2 web pages load very slow. It takes hours to load a MSDN web page and to download one tutorial. Can I download the beginner tutorials from another MS site? Thanks for all the help. P.S. Other than that ...

I've had issues getting any updates to appear on any of the technet newsgroups. I had posted and replied to a few different topics through a few different newsgroups on Technet. I have also been notified of replies to several if not all of these topics, but when I click the link it takes me to ...

I am not sure where to ask this question: when i go to http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/default.aspx i get in the bottom left of my browser 'done, but with errors on page'. Does this always occur on this page, i also can't resize the left column of the web page. Can this be fixed? I would ...