Make MSDN download friendlier - {something for the suggestion box}.
I can’t name the number of times I have downloaded material for learning from MSDN. My problem is this: I don’t want to have to print out a logical sequence of pages and have to collate them myself. For example recently I wanted to get all the documentation on Entity SQL together and put it in a single document (PDF) so I can easily refer to the material as a whole and not separate resources on the web. So off I go doing the ‘user friendly print version’ thing and printing that to separate PDF files only to have to merge them. Microsoft would be doing the community a huge favour by making that available online by default. Look at the Entity SQL MSDN pages for example.
What I normally do with a tree full of documents like this, is to print all the friendly versions to PDF individually and then merge as one PDF document. So for the above I have the entire Entity SQL Language reference material from MSDN all in one physical document - easy to read and print all in one action. Ok so perhaps they would prefer to provide and XPS version - that’s great with me too, I wont discriminate on document type. Do Microsoft have a suggestion box? Yes they do!
