Why move Windows documentation to docs.microsoft.com?
Here are the benefits for developers:
- One place for Microsoft’s technical docs, offering you a complete and consistent content experience.
- A modern, community-oriented approach that’s open to your contributions and feedback, and responsive design that works on your phone, tablet or PC.
- Better content discoverability and navigation.
- Ongoing improvements to the site, new features based on your input and updated content from community contributions. Check out the November 2016 platform update post by Jeff Sandquist to see the latest features on Docs.Microsoft.com.
- Moving to docs will enable us to open source all Windows documentation and enable community contributions.
We’re very excited to connect with our developers through Docs.Microsoft.com. Be sure to watch this short video that explains how to start contributing to the content.
https://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/One-Dev-Minute/Modernizing-the-Windows-UWP-Docs
Improvements to finding Windows samples
In addition to new and updated docs, we created a new Code Samples page to help you find the Windows samples on GitHub. There are a bunch of samples already available, and we want you to be able to easily find them by narrowing down your search criteria by technology area, language and platform.
Here’s a look at the new Code Samples page:
We’ll keep updating this page, creating new samples and adding GitHub repos, so bookmark it and keep coming back.
What’s next
We want you to have a great experience with Windows docs, so we’ll keep moving more of them to Docs.Microsoft.com. This will include docs for hardware developers, desktop developers, and more. We’ll keep you posted on our progress. Feel free to give us your feedback.