Top Answerers - Mar'06.Con

Bhanu,

You've still got the answerme links for the forums, and the links for the names don't work (because they end in /t_blank).

Perhaps the top and bottom performing teams should be broken up by actual forums, that way users can actual see what forums need the most help.

Regards

David

DavidM.Kean-MSFT at 2007-9-10 >

I'm glad i entered the Top 10 All-Time answerers list.

This month, April, is a very busy month for me so i think April Top Answerers List won't make me happy, but i'm trying to keep up the good work.

PJ.vandeSande at 2007-9-10 >

Bhanu Prakash Nunna - MSFT wrote:

Top 3 Win Forms answerers. Members Answers Mark Rideout 43 vkh75 23 Chris Vega 20

Thanks, this is probably the first time I've seen my name included in the list of Top Answerers.

Cheers,

-chris

ChrisVega at 2007-9-10 >

-chris

ChrisVega at 2007-9-10 >

The numbers posted are "Small Potatoes". I've answered over 40k questions, even though Google's database only keeps the last 24k or so.

Results 1 - 100 of 23,800 for -dotnet group:*.vb.* author:ken author:halter

http://groups.google.com.my/groups?as_q=&num=100&scoring=r&hl=en&as_epq=&as_oq=&as_eq=dotnet&as_ugroup=*.vb.*&as_usubject=&as_uauthors=ken+halter&lr=lang_en&as_drrb=q&as_qdr=&as_mind=1&as_minm=1&as_miny=1981&as_maxd=20&as_maxm=6&as_maxy=2006&safe=off

...and, the "VB" section should really be called the "Visual Basic .Net" section.... they are NOT the same products.

KenHalter at 2007-9-10 >

> Actually Visual Basic was renamed back to Visual Basic in 2005

Yeah but... what about the billions upon billions of lines of code that won't run in the new, misnamed product? There's alot more to a product than its name. Retaining the identical name may fool "newbies" but for people like me, that could, for the most part, import Quick Basic code, or any prior version of VB code into any later version of VB upto and including version 6 and, with minor modifications, compile and run it, that new product, regardless of what its called, just doesn't cut the mustard. It should be named B#.

Heck... even the MS site doesn't have code that runs unmodified in "the new product". Just download any of the samples available on the "Stay the path" page and see if >any< of them run at all, without modification. Be sure to install only the latest version of dotNet and make sure it's the same version available to the public.

I know.... the next question will be "what have you tried?" or "which sample are you having a problem with?"... thing is, people just starting out with "the new product" should be able to download sample code and run it. Period. Plus, I've taken hours and hours replying to posts from MS employees. The end result is always the same. They all disappear without answering anything at all or say "I will contact the appropriate person to answer this question"... then they disappear.

I just wonder how many complete newbies downloaded the Express versions, just to find out that none of the code works so they uninstall it (quite a chore, in itself) and delete the setup package before moving on to another vendors development tools. There was an article, just the other day, saying that Linux developers now out number Windows developers. What does that say about the tools Windows developers have at their disposal?

KenHalter at 2007-9-10 >