Windows SDK DevCenter

One of the most fun tasks I've done as a member is this team has been to post our MSDN Developer Center. This site is intended to be a one-stop portal for all issues pertaining to the Windows SDK, including download information, our latest release notes, links to our release notes, other helpful downloads, privacy policy, technical articles pertinent to the SDK, ways to contacts us, and more.

I really enjoyed working with Ian and Laurie, our MSDN contacts, on this project. Not only were they helpful, diligent and unfailingly polite, but they also made many suggestions along the way to help us to create the best site possible.

One of the key goals of the site was to create a place where we can keep our release notes up to date even after the product is released. We do extensive testing of our product within the SDK team, of course - that's all part of the standartd Microsoft process of releasing our products. But we can never be quite sure of the issues our users face until the product is out there in your hands. You're the ones following your own specific unique scenarios, using our SDK components in your particular, specific ways. And therefore you're the ones who run into issues that we never expect.

We set up several "contact us" mechanisms in part for exactly that reason. You give us real-world feedback on issues related to the performance of content in the SDK, and we find that real-world feedback to be invaluable. If you run into an unexpected issue, please let us know about it. Chances are that another user has stumbled across the same issue, and that inforrmation would be invaluable for them as well.

And if you haven't been to the site, please do check it out. And send your feedback. We're listening.