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I know it's off-topic, but since you're a Microsoft employee: haven't the MSDN guys ever heard about friendly URLs? Compare: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Projects/Sp...

(I'm guessing this would be at least the milionth time they hear about it :) )

MSDN does support friendly names: https://msdn.microsoft.com/library/system.string (works for any .net class)

I think the person who wrote this particular page simply didn't specify a friendly name, which is why it's falling back to the canonical name.