MSDN Publishing
September 2003

Welcome the MSDN Guidelines for Publishing Content. Here you will find the resources and guidelines necessary to submit content to the Microsoft Developer Network.

The MSDN Publishing team (msdnpubs) publishes product documentation, software development kit (SDK) documentation, specifications, resource kits, product information pages, and technical articles for developers. All content published on MSDN should be appropriate to the developer audience and be of sufficient technical depth and relevance.

Content submitted to MSDN may appear on the MSDN Online Library, on the quarterly MSDN Subscriptions Library CD/DVD product, or other MSDN-related products. It is for this reason that the MSDN Publishing team has some specific guidelines for content submissions.

Using This Guide

For a complete outline of the content covered in the MSDN Guidelines for Publishing Content, please see the site map. It may be worthwhile to add the site map to your Favorites as an easy reference point.

We suggest you begin with the MSDN Content Submission Requirements for the general requirements for all content submitted to MSDN, such as Security Guidelines. From there you will find links to guidelines and requirements for preparing and submitting specific types of content, such as:

• Submitting a technical article
• Submitting product documentation sets
• Submitting product information pages
• Publishing code samples and downloads
• Writing headlines for MSDN
• Submitting graphics for all types of content

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Other Publishing Options

If you are an inexperienced writer, an experienced writer without much time, or if you have a topic of key strategic value to MSDN customers and would like some guidance preparing your content, it may be that you should consider contacting the MSDN Developmental Editing team (msdncnt).

See Getting Editorial Help from MSDN if this sounds like the right option for your circumstances.

The other end of the spectrum is for the veteran contributor to MSDN. If you are already very familiar with our guidelines and have submitted content to MSDN regularly in the past, you may be a candidate for taking over ownership of your own content as it appears on MSDN.

See Partner Publishing if you would like to pursue this option further.

Thank you for taking the time to find out more about publishing your content with MSDN. Please feel free to contact the MSDN Content Submissions alias (msdnsub) with any further questions or suggestions to make this guide more helpful.

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