URL alias feature of the MSDN site

Recently you can find few nice changes in the Visual Studio 2005 beta documentation online.

1. New URL Scheme

In the MSDN online Library (Visual Studio 2005 beta documentation), they introduce a new feature named “URL Alias”.

URLs are in the format http://msdn2.microsoft.com/library/.aspx.

You can see the documentation for a class or namespace by suffixing the fully qualified name of the class after: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/library/.

It is really cool. Isn’t?

For instance, if I want to go to the Security namespace; type http://msdn2.microsoft.com/library/system.security.aspx to see all the classes in the Security namespace. It will help in prevent broken links/favorites in the future.


2. Alternative Table of Contents Model

They are introducing the nested Table of Contents (TOCs) instead of a tree control for better navigation. For more info check this TOC organization will be changing.