My group specifically shipped updates to Forums, Search, and Profile, and TechNet Script Center. We also included new features and fixes along with the new designs.

TechNet Forums

TechNet Search

TechNet Profile

TechNet Office Forums

TechNet Sharepoint Forums

TechNet Windows Client Forums

TechNet Windows Server Forums

TechNet Script Center Repository

Enjoy the new features and let us know what you think! You'll also notice new search enhancements including search refinements that are automatically scoped to your current Tech Center.

We are still busy here and more updates are on the way.

First, you may have read many of my previous posts that were related to an online Social Bookmarking application I helped build for MSDN in 2008. Unfortunately, this application was retired and now many of my links and posts are no longer relevant. Rather than clean them out, I thought I'd explain things here instead. The Social Bookmarking application was retired last year and is not being replaced. I hope this hasn't caused anybody out there too much trouble.

Since then, I've been working on some other projects for the same team. Last summer, we released updated versions of three Gallery applications, Visual Studio Gallery, Expression Gallery, and TechNet Script Center. I also lead the effort to implement the re-branding of the MSDN look-and-feel for our Forums, Search, and Profile applications. This was a very large project, but has been quite rewarding and an excellent release.

Keep an eye out here and I'll post more updates soon when new projects are released. I hope everybody is enjoying the Gallery releases and the newly re-designed MSDN site. There is more to come!

Class vs Struct 

This query was based on a common interview question I've seen; "What is the difference between a class and a struct". If you make a quest to explore the results of this query, you can end up on an expedition of learning about the C# language. I still use this technique for reviewing the basics from time to time. The basic idea is to take common language types and/or concepts, and face them off in a term vs term query. 

Based on how much valuable information can result from the Class vs Struct query, I've also compiled a few others that will take you further and deeper into a learning journey. The following queries can really help you learn about the language and will also lead you towards some VIP blogs and sites in the .Net community. Try them out and have fun exploring!

Instance Constructor vs Class Constructor

Array vs ArrayList 

Dictionary vs Hashtable

Stack vs Heap

Interface vs Class 

Interface vs Abstract Class

Value Type vs Reference Type

Thread vs Process 

I hope these queries work as well for you as they have for me. By researching and understanding the results you find, you will have the knowledge to do quite well in C# development, and in any development interview.

John Martin - https://blogs.technet.com/johmar/archive/2008/09/08/now-live-social-bookmarking-v-1-0-for-microsoft-msdn-technet-and-expression-sites.aspx

Chris Slemp - https://blogs.msdn.com/cslemp/archive/2008/09/09/launched-social-bookmarking-v1-on-msdn-and-technet-video.aspx

Somasegar - https://blogs.msdn.com/somasegar/archive/2008/09/11/social-bookmarking-platform-released.aspx

Dan Rigsby - https://www.danrigsby.com/blog/index.php/2008/09/10/msdn-social-bookmarks/  
 

Dzone -  https://www.dzone.com/links/msdn_social_bookmarks.html

Dotnetkicks - https://www.dotnetkicks.com/community/MSDN_Social_Bookmarks

Digg - https://digg.com/microsoft/MSDN_and_TechNet_Social_Bookmarking_Launch_Video

Yahoo Buzz - https://buzz.yahoo.com/article/1:787ce19b08403d28fd98d661ae62c0cd:f479fb24bc251bbe4cb88301743fc5d9

TechNet Social Bookmarking

MSDN Social Bookmarking

Expression Social Bookmarking

Along with this release of social bookmarking, updates were also released to MSDN/TechNet Search and Forums. Some great new stuff to check out here and more on the way!

If you've been along since the preview release, here are some new features I think are worth checking out. To start with, there's now the ability to search for other users in the system. From this search, you can find that user's bookmarks, forum threads, and other community content, along with RSS Feeds. Speaking of RSS, we've added RSS Feeds for all users' bookmarks, which can be filtered by time range and tag. There are also new tools, including one to import browser bookmarks and other export formats such as del.icio.us. 

Oh yeah, one more thing.. you can now tag something with "hyper-v"..

 Internet Explorer cannot open the Internet site <site>.

 Operation aborted

If you've encountered this error, you may be ready to strangle your computer already. When it happens, it crashes your page completely, with no way out. Well, the good news is, it has a specific cause and can be avoided. I found the answer on the IEBlog below, and was extremely grateful after too many hours spent trying to debug this. Hope this helps somebody else!

https://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2008/04/23/what-happened-to-operation-aborted.aspx

Be sure to check back here in the coming days for news about the new release!

https://blogs.technet.com/johmar/archive/2008/06/25/add-msdn-technet-bookmarklet-to-any-web-page.aspx

The error below...

...was thrown on referencing the following JS object: document.all.tags

We found the problem to be an HTML div element on the page that had it's ID="tags". For some reason, this element ID caused the document.all.tags collection to be null. Good news is, the problem was easy to fix. We simply gave the problem Div a different ID, and the error is gone. Many thanks to our test team for tracking this one down.

For people using the Social Bookmarking app right now and experiencing this problem, know that a solution is on the way. It is in Test right now, and hopefully in Production soon. For future developers who try to ID an element "tags", hope this helps! :)