You'll find that many answerers also run their own forums becuase this one is not conducive to helping someone that is new.

First, it is mainly only new people that ask questions.

If you are new, you have to wait for your post to be moderated and released from the queue. 
When they are released, the moderators will often give them a quick one line answer.

That one line answer will usually keep other people from responding.

Then you have to reply and wait again, and you never really have a chance at two way conversation that can help you get your question answered.

Reading past posts is a very good idea because you can at least see the dialogue in real time even though the original may have taken many days.

 

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It's a community project...It's not asp.net's project, or any other vendor. It's exactly what we make it. we can't expect the people who spend countless hours making this fabulous product work, also monitor the forums 24/7 for free. There is no charge to this website, there is no charge for the product.

The creators, contributers, and organizers have gone way beyond the call of duty, and it's up to US as members of the community to take it to the next level.

We may not from time to time get our questions answered to our satisfaction, the point though is, that this product cannot be "part of" another community anymore. Everything has to go through it's growing pains, and evolve. I was not actively around when it was an asp.net forum, and that is a great website, but, asp.net is , welp, for more general asp.net type stuff in my mind.

It's up to us...They've given us the product, they've given us the community structure....and it must be on it's own....just because, well....it's that cool :->

So....My tip.... Start talking in those forms, and answering questions left and right that interest you. You can't expect people to take the time out of their day to answer your questions free of charge all day long....it's supposed to be a 'fun'(whatever our nerd world definition is of that. I know my "fun" has caused a patch of skin to form on the back of my head haha).

Blah blah...If you want a certain aspect of development to take off, participate HERE, in on the DotNetNuke website, where there are 1/2 a million members...and just answer questions. Just do 3 questions a day, in the forum that you need help in. It's up to US to grow each section, or help mold the are of OUR intrest. I'm far from able to code advanced projects like you do....I enjoy participating, and read about answers to the advanced stuff, but I can't offer any valid input as to coding...it's way outta my league.(as you can tell from my massive amount of typoes).

People will notice a helpful person. get about 2 or 3 little red blocks next to your name and you'll get some respect, and the smarties will spend time answering your questions. People support those who give back.

My 2 cents.
DNN is Sweet daddy, and it's cause of the people....Give back and get back.

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Josh Martin

Whats the MVP summit? I'm far from an MVP, but it may be something I'd want to read up on, see what the smarties are all talkin' about.

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Josh Martin