Re: Question to the generals in this newsgroup including MSFT's

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I spend time in both places. The MSDN forums are painfully slow. You read one message, respond to it, how do you get back to the original list? You have to reload it. Or go back 2 or 3 times. Did I mention they are slow?

Reading messages in the microsoft.public.dotnet.* newsgroups with a newsreader like Windows Mail or Outlook Express is very fast. You can see all of the messages at one time rather then 25 at a time. And if you're answering a message and want to see one that is earlier in the thread, you can do that, rather than just seeing the specific entry of the one you are responding to. And after you respond, you're done. YOu don't have to back up, or try to reload the list and figure out where you were.

God forbid you're on page 2 or 3 on a forum and you answer a question, and click on the forum name to get back to the list rather than doing GoBack 2 or 3 times. If you do that, then you have to go find the page you were on again.

I like the alerts in the forums. Here, with OE or WindowsMail you can mark something, but I don't know how to get back to it short of looking for the red entry.

It's easier with the newsgroups to see what you've read and what you haven't. You can read multiple entries under a thread, and when a new one comes in, that comes in a new. With the newsgroups, once I've read it and it's marked in grey (how attractive is that?), if a new answer comes in, I think it's still grey.

Did I mention the MSDN Forums are really slow?

I also feel like there are more people answering questions in the newsgroups. I see the same people over and over, and there are like a dozen or so of them. I'm not sure the participation is as high in the forums. Probably because they're slow. Did I mention that? ;-)

RobinS.
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(RobinDotNet in the ClickOnce forums)


<turkdude777@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:25e22186-42b5-4923-81f6-1cfa25e07207@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
I spend most of my time on the MSDN forums and not here on
microsoft.public.dotnet.framework.adonet.
As a SQL Server developer, I am encouraged by my management to spend
time every week on the MSDN forums to help build community support.

Could someone enumerate the advantages of
microsoft.public.dotnet.framework.adonet versus the msdn forums
(http://forums.microsoft.com/msdn)?
Why not just use the MSDN forums? Is there some inherent advantage of
this newsgroup I am missing?

I understand that this newsgroup has been around for a long time so
this is good, I see there are good MVPs here too.

Also is there some perception of a disadvantage to MSDN forums? I
know for myself the requirement for Live ID is really annoying I wish
they would get rid of this, but one advantage of this is the
notifcation services (I get notified when people respond to my posts,
etc). I suppose this could be implemented without Live ID. Also the
MSDN forums in general I don't like the interface. I've been working
with MSDN forums internally to improve all these items to make it a
better place.

On Apr 3, 8:46 am, "William Vaughn [MVP]" <billvaNoS...@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
LINQ is implemented in ADO.NET 3.5.

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> Is this a FrameWork.ADONET or a LINQ newsgroup?

> As I see so many non LINQ to ADONET questions answered at the moment.

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