MSDN Hackable URLs

An extremely useful tip to know is that the new MSDN2 urls are hackable. What this means is that you can access them via a namespace.class convention.

So, for example, lets assume we need documentation for System.Data.OLEDB namespace. We have a lot of options; the first one usually being Google.

With the MSDN2, we can also try this:

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.data.oledb.aspx

The URL above would take you straight to the documentation. So, what if we wanted to look up OleDbCommand Class? Well, we can just follow the namespace.class convention to look it up using the following URL:

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.data.oledb.oledbcommand.aspx

Pretty Neat, huh? A small but rather neat trick by Microsoft to make life easy when searching for documentation.