One of the last things I did before leaving the MSDN team was to prototype a Web service for retrieving content programmatically. It's been a while since then, but a production version is now live. Craig provides an excellent introduction here. The prototype client we always talked about was msdnman - a command line tool like the Unix man command. Craig was the lucky one - he got to build it. It will be interesting to see what people do with these services. Off the top of my head, I can imagine including actual docs in a technology site, integrating with tools (a la' Reflector), and building a team level doc repository on TFS that allows you to annotate, add your own docs, etc. Anyway, congrats to the MTPS team for a job well done!
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Jun 12 2006, 12:58 PM
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tim-ewald