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Update/remove old links#12538

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@gewarren gewarren commented Apr 20, 2026

  • Replace msdn.microsoft.com links with their redirect target (Copilot CLI)
  • Replace go.microsoft.com links with their final target URL (Copilot CLI)
  • Remove dead links from a few ObsoleteAttribute messages for old .NET versions (i.e. no longer in current source code)
  • Remove links to /previous-versions that were originally msdn.microsoft.com or go.microsoft.com links

Contributes to #12513.

gewarren and others added 11 commits April 18, 2026 16:42
Update 142 XML files to replace outdated msdn.microsoft.com links
with their final learn.microsoft.com redirect destinations.

Co-authored-by: Copilot <223556219+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com>
Resolved 162 unique go.microsoft.com/fwlink shortlinks to their final
destination URLs across 486 XML files (1,459 total replacements).
Cleaned up resolved URLs by removing en-us locale prefixes and
redirectedfrom=MSDN query parameters. Skipped 13 dead links
(LinkID 296509-296522) that redirect to bing.com.

Co-authored-by: Copilot <223556219+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com>
These URLs are part of the compiled API signature text and should
not be modified in documentation.

Co-authored-by: Copilot <223556219+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com>
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Co-authored-by: Copilot <223556219+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com>
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@gewarren gewarren marked this pull request as ready for review April 20, 2026 22:30
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@gewarren gewarren changed the title Update old links Update/remove old links Apr 21, 2026
@gewarren gewarren merged commit 1478660 into dotnet:main Apr 21, 2026
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