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Not a fan of the UI, too nested. Compare two ways to get to the "Welcome back to C++" article.

MSDN: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/default.aspx Click Library -> find the "Visual C++ in Visual Studio 2013" link (ctrl+f for 'c++' or just by looking, maybe get distracted by "oh I didn't know they had doc for that...") -> click it -> click third link in general info https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh279654.aspx

Docs: Click Visual Studio tile (or top level tab?) -> Click "Languages" tab -> Click "Visual C++" -> Click "Languages and Libraries" -> Click "Standard C++ Languages and Libraries" -> Click "Welcome back to C++" https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/cpp/cpp/welcome-back-to-cpp... (Or if what you're looking for isn't there, notice the expandable table of contents on the left. Compare MSDN which automatically expands the first layer for the context and has easy links to other things.)

The URLs on Docs are nicer. But as someone involved with such stuff at my day job I think the SEO benefits are overblown. ;)



Docs PM here.

Thanks for the feedback. Just want to say that in terms of content architecture, we are working on ensuring that all our content is discoverable - the concerns above are valid and I will direct this feedback to our IA people.




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