Scott Hanselman recently turned me on to the low bandwidth version of MSDN online, read his post here.

I have been trying to use it whenever I can, and I have to say I am very impressed with it. I have always hated having to use the online version of MSDN purely cause of it’s lack of speed. But now, it is brilliant if you use loband.

To get to it, is pretty easy. Normally you would browse to the following:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.object.aspx

and you would get the normal MSDN, but to get the loband version is pretty easy:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.object(loband).aspx

All you need to do is add (loband) before the .aspx extension. if there is already a filter there, then just comma separate the two: (filter1,loband).aspx. pretty simple really, but it makes the world of difference to the site speed and the bandwidth you use trying to find out where the hell that random class is located and what it does.

Jon Galloway has a post with more detail than I have and also info on how to create a bookmarklet to help you get into loband, read it here. He does say that once you view the loband version, it will persist until you turn it off which is also a nice little feature.

One thing I do recommend is that you follow Jon’s simple steps on creating the bookmarklet so if you ever need to get back it, it is simple as clicking a bookmark.