What's wrong with the MSDN Library on CD?

Published Mon, Aug 9 2004 7:25 PM

I have always been a great fan of the offline MSDN Library. I always have a very recent version installed on my PC and promoted it to every developer.

But I've been disappointed by the July 2004 edition twice now. It both lacks the complete BizTalk 2004 documentation (a version is available since march, a decent one since April 2) and the complete Reporting Services documentation (the tool is around at least as long as BizTalk). It means that we have to wait at least half a year between product launch and offline MSDN documentation. I find that unbelieveable.

 

by Carlo Poli

Comments

# Carlo Poli said on Monday, August 09, 2004 7:55 PM

Documentation is always delivered AFTER the product has shipped/is in production, if documentation is created at all... ;-)

# Carlo Poli said on Tuesday, August 10, 2004 10:11 AM

I agree with you there. I usually use the newsgroups, the blogs and google before I try looking in the BizTalk documentation. If there was a decent book out on BTS 2004 it would not be so bad, ScottWoo's book has been delayed from January untill October (if it's out then).

It's a pain to try to get things running, but on the plus side the lack of documentation adds real value to your knowledge.

/Ayjay...