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Levep II AspeLite means somesone who wrote a utility like http://www.aspfriends.com/search which is a front end I wrote to accompany Rob Caron's search. I wriote about 16 ASP and ASP.net Tools and designed and maintained others see http://www.aspfriends.com/aspfriends/moderatehow.a sp is for exam[le a tool I designed AND CODED PORTIONS thereof along with Feliope Coury and Brian Bilbro and Mac. The other Elite Level IiI wrote tools to earn that rank. I fought to get my desrving people (many of whom I am kot friendly with) MVP to improve MVP Quality in general. Level I Members answer questions. Level2 answered and wroite tools. Ask Benmi@microsoft.com (ASP.net MVP rep) if I was thrown out of MVPs. I was not, and have not violated ndas. I tried to quit 3 times and each time MS reps asked me to stay, and the 3rd time I decide to not take their advice and TO RESIGN!!!!

Levep II AspeLite means somesone who wrote a utility like http://www.aspfriends.com/search which is a front end I wrote to accompany Rob Caron's search. I wriote about 16 ASP and ASP.net Tools and designed and maintained others see http://www.aspfriends.com/aspfriends/moderatehow.a sp is for exam[le a tool I designed AND CODED PORTIONS thereof along with Feliope Coury and Brian Bilbro and Mac. The other Elite Level IiI wrote tools to earn that rank. I fought to get my desrving people (many of whom I am kot friendly with) MVP to improve MVP Quality in general. Level I Members answer questions. Level2 answered and wroite tools. Ask Benmi@microsoft.com (ASP.net MVP rep) if I was thrown out of MVPs. I was not, and have not violated ndas. I tried to quit 3 times and each time MS reps asked me to stay, and the 3rd time I decide to not take their advice and TO RESIGN!!!!

The below is 100% True I only criticized two MS employees IN A PRIVATE LIST not a public one and some unscrupolous people forwarded it. One of those people was quite ticked I had the gall to criticize him privately and formulate do contract perhaps because HE THOUGHT I said so publicly. A search of every message at http://www.aspfriends.com/search will not turn up me insulting a MS employee. I mostly just answer questions.

http://www.aspfriends.com/search/MSG.ASP?msgid=754 337 is my reply. http://www.aspfriends.com/search/MSG.ASP?msgid=724 672 explains why I don't see my kids much and my time to deal with MS nonsense is limited in Dec -Feb when my kids are home (since MS promised no strings attached funding through June 2003 in Feb 2002 I didn't expect any strings or contracts and I suddenly got a Fedex contract a few days ago by surprise literally). MS should not have promised in Feb 2002 no strings funding June 2002 - June 2003 if they were adding strings later. I could have had time to review the contract or quit before June if they sent me contracts earlier. They did pay June 2002 - Dec 2000 without strings as per half of their Feb promise and first contract I saw was in Dec so if this contract was so vital why wasn't it presented to me prior to June? I got it Fedex a few days ago in Late Nov!

http://www.aspfriends.com/search/MSG.ASP?msgid=754 337 is my reply. http://www.aspfriends.com/search/MSG.ASP?msgid=724 672 explains why I don't see my kids much and my time to deal with MS nonsense is limited in Dec -Feb when my kids are home (since MS promised no strings attached funding through June 2003 in Feb 2002 I didn't expect any strings or contracts and I suddenly got a Fedex contract a few days ago by surprise literally). MS should not have promised in Feb 2002 no strings funding June 2002 - June 2003 if they were adding strings later. I could have had time to review the contract or quit before June if they sent me contracts earlier. They did pay June 2002 - Dec 2000 without strings as per half of their Feb promise and first contract I saw was in Dec so if this contract was so vital why wasn't it presented to me prior to June? I got it Fedex a few days ago in Late Nov!

Justin Wong nailed this one: http://www.aspfriends.com/search/MSG.ASP?msgid=753 489

I don't care whether MS pays for it - their customers are affected mostly and it is one less thing for me to do each month :) I was going to close it a while ago for a varity of reasons and MS contacted me and insisted that it should stay and they wanted to support it through June of 2003 no strings attached. Then they chaed their mind. I am 100% fine with them not supporting it and breaking their promise, and the story ends in December and I am 100% fine with that. I just made the FAQ to let people know why it closes then. It affects 73,000 people and they deserve a true accounting as to why it closed. I learned a lot and invented a lot of new moderation tools like Our Moderate Tool and many useful private tools that make mailing list easy to manage. I intend to launch a bunch of very low volume lists using those tool in areas in non-MS ares I love that don't have such a large audience that the server capacity has to be so high and costly.

1. Newsgroups: Most microsoft technologies have a newsgroup in the microsoft.public.* hierarchy that are read not only by Microsoft employees but by dozens of regular developers who just want to help others who are having problems. I personally monitor microsoft.public.xml and microsoft.public.dotnet.xml where I answer a lot of questions and pass many of those I can't answer to the actual devs who work on the applications and APIs in question.
   
   
2. Online Communities: There are a number of strong online communities where Windows developers congregate to share information, tips and tricks. These range from Microsoft sponsored sites like GotDotNet, ASP.NET, and Windows Forms.NET that are run by MSFT employees who participate actively in these communities to independent sites like 4 Guys from Rolla, Code Project, Dev Hood, DevelopMentor and CodeGuru
   
   
3. Microsoft Websites: Few places beat MSDN as a source of information about Microsoft technologies. By the way, if you are into XML check out my Extreme XML column
   
   
4. Mailing Lists: There are number of mailing lists hosted by various parties about Microsoft technologies. The ones I've seen with the most vibrance have been the DevelopMentor mailing lists and the ASP Friends lists