Developer Documentation and Help System announcement

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  This Forum Has Been Retired
  John Boylan Microsoft Employee Monday, December 03, 2012 10:29 PM

  This forum has been locked; it is still available for review in the Archived Forums folder. Any future posts on this topic should be put in the Visual Studio General Questions forum.

  
  
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  Blogs Related to MTPS and Visual Studio 2010 Help Viewer
  Anand Raman - MSFT Monday, November 02, 2009 5:51 AM

  Kimberley Wolk, Product Unit Manager for the Library Experience team, will be blogging regularly about Microsoft TechNet Publishing System (MTPS) and Visual Studio 2010 Help Viewer at http://blogs.msdn.com/kwolk/
  
  
  MSDN TechNet Publishing System

  MTPS is a publishing solution that: Hosts global sites such as msdn.microsoft.com, technet.microsoft.com, expression.microsoft.com and help.outlook.com
  Provides public access to help content through web services and enables community tools like Publish This! and msdnman
  Delivers connected in-product help experiences for products like Visual Studio 2008, Exchange 2010 and Windows Server 2008
  Packages content that can be installed locally for offline use
  
  MSDN & TechNet Libraries

  The libraries contain reference and conceptual material that help developers and ITPro's use Microsoft technologies.  You can see these sites at:

  • http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/default.aspx
  • http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/default.aspx

  Visual Studio 2010 Help Viewer

  The Help Viewer is a new offline viewer releasing as part of Visual Studio 2010. The new architecture provides a level of openness that allows customers and partners to innovate on the experience and capabilities and drive offline Help forward to meet their needs.  For this release, our key tenets were:

  • View online and offline content in a familiar, browser-based experience
  • Ensure your local help is relevant and up-to-date
  • Get fast and relevant search results using F1 and full text searches
  • Benefit from a simple-standards-based architecture

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