{"id":306,"date":"2006-08-01T12:15:34","date_gmt":"2006-08-01T11:15:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/2006\/08\/01\/msdn-is-free-to-download\/"},"modified":"2010-08-27T21:58:07","modified_gmt":"2010-08-27T19:58:07","slug":"msdn-is-free-to-download","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/2006\/08\/01\/msdn-is-free-to-download\/","title":{"rendered":"MSDN is free (to download)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This monstrous library choke full of information for the developer of Windows applications and (preferably, but not only) using Microsoft development tools was &#8211; up to now &#8211; only available in a paying subscription. This was a strong limitation for those developers not <em>serious<\/em> enough to invest in such a tool.<\/p>\n<p>Microsoft decided to change its policy about distributing the <a href=\"http:\/\/msdn.microsoft.com\/en-us\/library\/default.aspx\">MSDN Library<\/a>. Everything is now <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/downloads\/details.aspx?FamilyId=373930CB-A3D7-4EA5-B421-DD6818DC7C41&#038;displaylang=en\">free and downloadable<\/a> (about 1.6GB anyway).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This monstrous library choke full of information for the developer of Windows applications and (preferably, but not only) using Microsoft development tools was &#8211; up to now &#8211; only available in a paying subscription. This was a strong limitation for those developers not serious enough to invest in such a tool. Microsoft decided to change [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-software"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=306"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}