Super-fast MSDN

Originally posted on my old MSDN blog

I got this tip in the pub on Friday from my friend Bobby who works on the MSDN team. He told me he’d worked on implementing a low bandwidth version of the site, which is simpler and much, much faster than usual view.

I’d never heard of this, but a quick Live Search found a few relevant blog posts, including an excellent post explaining this feature and quite a bit more on John Galloway's blog.

I’d definitely recommend checking out that article, but the key point is simply add “(loband)” before the “.aspx” in any MSDN library URL e.g. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.object(loband).aspx

You can also set a cookie that can persist this view for future calls to MSDN without having to insert the (loband) part.

I’m sure many people who spend a lot of time in the MSDN libraries (including myself) will definitely find this feature very useful. This should definitely be publicised more widely!