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DDJ: For me, as a developer, I look at it maybe once or twice a week, just to see what's new. Invariably there'll be some really good nugget of information in there that I'm glad I read. Going forward, I'd be curious to find out what you're thinking about for some of the near-term enhancements based on the usage that you've seen so far, and some of the feedback that you've gotten so far.

Molly: In the December time frame we are merging the community content back into the main MSDN Library. Two other areas that we're focusing on are the editing experience and tagging. The editing team has done some incredible work on their rendering system, and so all the editing will be inline. In content blocks, there won't be any more pop-up windows, or that kind of thing. The other thing that they're looking at is tagging, to allow people to add tags to categorize things in the community content. We're looking at ways that we can expose categorized lists in the RSS as well.

DDJ: So you might be able to customize your RSS feed so that it's just serving up things that are tagged as asp.net or Windows forms, or XML, or something like that?


Molly: Right, exactly.

Rob: Or a particular class library. You might want to be able to be a lead contributor in a certain area of the documents.

DDJ: So in other words, maybe you'd be able to subscribe to an RSS feed based off a namespace?

Molly: That's something we'd really, really like to have. I don't think we'll have that in December, but we're looking at how we can do that in the future, because that's something that people, in particular the Microsoft people who have been contributing a lot, really want. They want to say, "I really only care about that stuff, so I can subscribe to the namespace, and ignore everything else."


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