I don't particularly like hardcoding dev16 into the compiler, I think any link would need to be VS-version agnostic.

What would happen when we add new error codes to the compiler that aren't yet doc'd?

@333fred

I don't particularly like hardcoding dev16 into the compiler, I think any link would need to be VS-version agnostic.

I don't think it's a big deal. I even don't know how it matters if it's dev16 or dev15 or whatever version. Both redirects to the correct page.

If the docs consolidated all error messages in the same directory, we can rely on it as a different link.

What would happen when we add new error codes to the compiler that aren't yet doc'd?

It will redirect to https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/misc/sorry-we-don-t-have-specifics-on-this-csharp-error

(Currently, it won't do that for all error messages. That will get fixed by dotnet/docs#20069

i think this needs to go through doc team to know what links they want us to point at. @jinujoseph @kendrahavens @mikadumont do you know who would be a good contact there to ask about this?

I don't think it's a big deal. I even don't know how it matters if it's dev16 or dev15 or whatever version. Both redirects to the correct page.

I'd prefer not to have any version at all. Errors from the C# compiler are not really version specific.

@CyrusNajmabadi The docs team currently relies on f1_keywords metadata that exists in articles. Because the error messages documentation is scattered in two different folders currently, I don't think there is another way.

AFAIK, the docs team has an internal request to support a whole folder redirection, which will make it easy to have all error messages in one folder.

I'll let @BillWagner or @adegeo confirm that.

OK, I will work with @kexugit about the new name and update you soon.

We will deploy this change after the Ignite event ends.

@Youssef1313 The change has been deployed. You can go ahead and update the PR. Thanks to @OsmondJiang 's team!

Thanks a lot @kexugit and @OsmondJiang 🎉

https://msdn.microsoft.com/query/dev16.query?appId=Dev16IDEF1&l=EN-US&k=k(CS1001);k(DevLang-csharp)&rd=true
https://msdn.microsoft.com/query/roslyn.query?appId=roslyn&l=EN-US&k=k(CS1001);k(DevLang-csharp)&rd=true

At the time of writing this, the first link works, but the second doesn't. Any idea what I'm doing wrong?

https://msdn.microsoft.com/query/roslyn.query?appId=roslyn&l=EN-US&k=k(CS1001);k(DevLang-csharp)&rd=true Now it is working.