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From: venkat_kl
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Hi, I saw a good link on "Tips on Posting Good Questions" by Shawn Farkas -
MS
Search for your question on the forums or in Visual Studio 2005's help
system first -- it's likely someone may have already answered your question,
and you won't have to waste time waiting for it to be answered again
Post in the correct forum (see below) -- since the experts in various subject
matters tend to stick to the set of forums that focus on those topics, a
question about the C# yield keyword posted in the Common Language Runtime forum
will likely take a lot longer to be answered than the same question in the C#
Language forum. Make sure your title summarizes the specific problem you
have -- since we try to answer the maximum number of questions we can with our
time, we often skim through question subjects to quickly find the ones that we
know the answers to. A question with a title of "Urgent! Help needed!" is not
as likely to get answered as a question with a title of "How to define a sealed
class using CodeDOM". A more specific, detailed title is far more likely to
get a response than a general one. Give details about your problem --
rather than "When I call Process.Start I get an exception, please help",
provide the exception type, message, and call stack. If possible provide a
succinct code snippet that demonstrates the problem. This lets us reproduce
the problem on our end, and allows us to come up with an answer where just a
general question may not have had enough details. Having this information
means we can answer your question more quickly, without having to ask you for
these details and wait for your response. Once you've received a correct
answer to your question, either from a Microsoft employee, an MVP, or the
community in general, please mark the post as answered. You can do this with
the "Mark as correct answer" button that appears on the entry containing your
answer. This step is important, since it lets the Visual Studio search engine
know that there is an answer in that thread for others who may also have your
problem. It also lets people scanning the forums know that they can find an
answer to that question by reading the thread. Report bugs through the MSDN
Product Feedback Center, instead of on the forums -- the Product Feedback
Center allows us to see the bugs in our bug tracking database and get them
assigned to the correct person. It also allows you to follow the problem
through to its resolution, and is a much better way for us to handle issues you
find than a bug report posted on the forums.
When trying to figure out which forum is right for your question, here are some
good candidates: Common Language Runtime - for questions related to the
runtime engine itself .NET Development General - a general catchall for
questions related to the BCL libraries, questions regarding the design of your
code, etc. Visual C# Language - for questions about the C# programming
language, not the CLR or managed libraries Visual Basic Language -
same as above, but for VB Visual C++ Language - same as above, but for
C++ (both native and C++/CLI) Visual Studio General - for general
questions about the IDE Windows Forms General - for questions about
creating applications using the System.Windows.Forms libraries ASP.Net
Forums - for questions about writing web applications using ASP.NET
Of course there are dozens of other forums available if your question doesn't
fit into one of those categories.
Finally -- as moderators we try to keep spam and inflammatory comments out of
the forums. However if you do catch something that we missed, don't hesitate
to use the report button so that we can keep the forums on-topic and a friendly
place to go for help with your .NET questions!
-Shawn http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=81136&SiteID=1
Regards, Venkat.KL
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