Some thoughts after installing the January 2002 MSDN Library:

1) Although it is not listed under system requirements, you must first install Internet Explorer 6.0. If IE 6 is not already installed on your machine, the Library install process will stop right away and prompt you to install it. It's on the DVD so installation is easy.

2) The installation seems slow compared to previous releases. The Typical install took approximately 15 minutes on my PIII/550 vs maybe 5 minutes for earlier releases. About half of this time was at the end with the installation wizard saying it was 'removing backup files' but with no progress being shown in the progress bar. I almost cancelled it, thinking it had gotten hung up, except every now and then I could hear the hard drive chatter. Eventually it finished. Be patient.

3) The focus of this release is on .NET of course. The release letter advises you to keep your October 2001 MSDN Library installed if you want to continue to access documentation for Visual Studio 6.0 and earlier. I do not have VS.NET installed on this machine so there was no prompt about 'do you want this to be the default help collection for all products'. I kept the October 2001 release installed and both it and the January 2002 release run fine side by side.

4) IMO the new interface is nice and clean but will take some getting used to because things are arranged differently.

5) The documentation for VFP 7.0 is found under Visual Tools and Languages as before. However there is evidently no way to set a filter for VFP like there was in the October 2001 release and earlier.

6) I haven't yet figured out how to do a search that looks only in the Knowledge Base. The VFP KB is located under the Visual FoxPro 7.0 topic under Visual Tools and Languages, but I haven't found a way to restrict a search to just the Knowledge Base. There is no top-level Knowledge Base topic like there was before.