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I’ve been programming in .NET professionally for three years and am always looking to sharpen my tools. I’m a sole developer for a company that recently purchased a MSDN subscription along with Visual Studio 2008 Professional. In what ways can the subscription be useful?
I’m used to googling 80% of the day to figure out how to do what I want to do, and I’ve learned a ton that way. I’m having trouble seeing what the subscription gains me.
An MSDN subscription provides much more than simply an offline version of their documentation. You get access to nearly all relevant software that Microsoft makes including Windows, SQL Server, Office, etc. It also includes previous versions, as well as versions that are not yet released to the public.
It’s great for testing, developing for a new platform, and for learning about new features in other Microsoft products in which you may not normally be exposed to.