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Quick Survey: Your Feedback Desired

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With Visual Studio 2005 releasing later this year, we’re very interested in learning more about how our subscribers manage both the Visual Studio and MSDN Libraries that are made available to you on MSDN Subscriber Downloads or shipped to you on CD or DVD media.  While this is a bit informal and unscientific, we’d appreciate any anecdotes or feedback you may have on the following items:

 

  • How do you use the Libraries?  Do you install the MSDN Library to replace the Visual Studio Library or install it as a standalone application and run both the VS and MSDN Library versions side-by-side?  Do you install quarterly versions of the MSDN Library as standalone versions and run those side-by-side?
  • What do you do with the quarterly updates of the MSDN Library when they arrive?  Update your MSDN Library installations immediately, wait until you “need” the updated content, update every other version, or some other frequency?
  • When was the last time you updated your Visual Studio or MSDN Library installation?

 

(Of course, you’re welcome to share any other feedback you may have on your use of or experiences with the Library…  I’ll make sure that your feedback gets routed to the right people or team.)

 

Thanks much,

 

Seth Adams

Program Manager, MSDN Subscriptions

Comments

  • Anonymous
    April 20, 2005
    Generally I just file the MSDN updates until I am doing a reload (like today). I use the MSDN library very little as it is easier to Google for whatever I am looking for, and if needed I narrow it down to a specific microsoft.com site.
  • Anonymous
    April 21, 2005
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    May 04, 2005
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  • Anonymous
    May 07, 2005
    When updates arrive, I throw out the previous quarterly version and replace it with the current one.

    As a contractor I keep all of my environments on Virtual PC. Every time I get a new contract I'll update all the software on the base image for that environment (which has Visual Studio sans VS or MSDN Library installed). After creating the image for the new contract I install the latest quarterly library and never update the library again because I haven't really noticed much changing between updates.

    From my point of view, if the library was a quarterly full install with automatic updates (via Windows Update perhaps?) I would always be up to date.