The power of your feedback

Sometimes you're navigating in the MSDN Library and you spot an error in the documentation. You decide to send your feedback and you might wonder if someone reads your comments. Yes, we do! And we take them very seriously!

From small typos to missing code samples to more serious errors, we analyze the comments and make the changes as possible.

One example of a topic that was changed based on the user feedback was the reference for the GridView.RowEditing event. Some of the comments were asking for examples of how to use this event when you are setting the data source programatically and not using the DataSourceID property. So, in the new release of the documentation we added a new sample to the property with the comments in mind.

You can compare the new version with the previous one!

But, for us, it's also important that you give us positive feedbacks when you find useful topics. This helps us track when we're doing it right as well and use that as a model to be followed!

Comments

• Anonymous
  April 29, 2008
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• Anonymous
  February 25, 2009
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• Anonymous
  February 26, 2009
  Hi Andrew, Yes, that is correct. We have a database for all customer feedback provided online or via SDK. I manage the CLR documentation team, but I'll keep an eye for the one you mentioned. Probably next week I can find it there. Keep in mind that we receive thousands of feedback, so when customers provide feedback it might take a while to see the changes and the change will only be applied to the latest version. A few more examples where we incorporated customer feedback into our docs:

• http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.text.regularexpressions.regex.escape.aspx
• http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms149397.aspx If you go to these topics, you can look for two things:

1. On the top of the page there is a freshness date indicating the last time this topic was updated for topics that were changed after the last release.
2. On the bottom of the page, there is a Change History table indicating what was changed and the reason for it. You'll see that most of the times, the reason is customer feedback. So take advantage of this communication channel and let us know where we can improve. Thanks, Maíra

• Anonymous
  March 11, 2009
  Andrew, I see your comment for the http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dw229a22.aspx topic in our database. You mention that the corresponding Load method has the exceptions listed. I'll follow up with the writer of this content to see if we can get this updated. Thanks for your feedback. Maira

• Anonymous
  March 11, 2009
  Great; it works! I'll try and comment each time I find a method that's underdocumented re. exceptions. Andrew