This Group, what more do we need ?

[OHM \( Terry Burns \)]

I was thinking about community the other day, and wondering what would be
the holy grail for a developer in need. I mean, we do get help here, but its
done on a best endeavours basis and its really really good most of the time.

What Ideally would you guys like to see in the perfect community site which
would help you out?

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[Jay B. Harlow [MVP - Outlook]]

Aaron,
Google has a web service based API you could use to create such an add-on.

http://www.google.com/apis/index.html

Not sure if this is what Ken is basing his on or not.

Hope this helps
Jay

"Aaron Smith" <th**********@s mithcentral.net > wrote in message
news:7X******** ***********@new ssvr33.news.pro digy.com...

What would be really a good is a simple site that allows searching a
certain set of newsgroups that you specify. Google groups is great, except
I have to weed through a ton of other newsgroups in order to find relevant
posts or create a long list of keywords to single it down, and sometimes
that strips out information I want... I don't want to store all the
messages in my newsreader, so a plugin for VS.Net that would point to a
site like that would be ideal.

Ken Tucker [MVP] wrote:

Hi,
I was going to share it.

Ken
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Cool, maybe you want to share this when its done, or are you going to
sell
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[Jay B. Harlow [MVP - Outlook]]

Terry,

Its an interesting concept really, nobody wants to pay for anything if
they
can get it for nothing, except if they think that what they can get for
free
is not good enough and thats the key. Its a chicken & egg problem, every thing I currently need is free, other
then my MSDN subscription, so I see no need to pay for what I am already
receiving.

On the flip side: I am not aware of anything that I would "need" as a
developer that I would be willing to pay for, which I suspect is what you
are asking for.

One of the problems with the net is that there is little in the way of
structure and you cant absolutely trust what you read all the time anyway. I know of a couple of pay services, that I would *NOT* trust, where as I
know of free services (these newsgroups) that I would trust, at least trust
to the point that I can research it further myself...

The problem I have with pay services is how do we truly trust they know what
they are talking about? I've seen presenters talk about .NET, that simply
"get it wrong", I normally take what the others give and go the extra yard
to verify what they stated makes sense.

Even information that MS puts out, I put a little extra research & ensure
that I fully understand how it works and why & when I might use it.
The other problem is that when one does have to pay for something, it damn
well had better be good value right ? 100+% agree!

Just a thought
Jay

"OHM ( Terry Burns )" <[e-mail]> wrote in message
news:uC******** ******@TK2MSFTN GP12.phx.gbl... Its an interesting concept really, nobody wants to pay for anything if
they
can get it for nothing, except if they think that what they can get for
free
is not good enough and thats the key.

One of the problems with the net is that there is little in the way of
structure and you cant absolutely trust what you read all the time anyway.

The other problem is that when one does have to pay for something, it damn
well had better be good value right ?

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Dim ch() As Char = "ufssz/cvsotAhsfbuTpmv ujpotXjui/OFU".ToCharArra y()
For i As Int32 = 0 To ch.Length - 1
ch(i) = Convert.ToChar( Convert.ToInt16 (ch(i)) - 1)
Next
Process.Start(" mailto:" & New String(ch))
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"Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]" <hi************ ***@gmx.at> wrote in message
news:eh******** ******@tk2msftn gp13.phx.gbl...

"OHM ( Terry Burns )" <[e-mail]> schrieb:

> What though would constitute a perfect service for you which give you
> everything you need and how much would you be willing to pay ?

EUR 0.0 if I get everything free on the Web.

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[Aaron Smith]

You just had to tell me about that, didn't you... As if I didn't have
enough to play with at home! lol

I'll have to look at that and see what I can come up with...

Jay B. Harlow [MVP - Outlook] wrote:

Aaron,
Google has a web service based API you could use to create such an add-on.

http://www.google.com/apis/index.html

Not sure if this is what Ken is basing his on or not.

Hope this helps
Jay

"Aaron Smith" <th**********@s mithcentral.net > wrote in message
news:7X******** ***********@new ssvr33.news.pro digy.com...

What would be really a good is a simple site that allows searching a
certain set of newsgroups that you specify. Google groups is great, except
I have to weed through a ton of other newsgroups in order to find relevant
posts or create a long list of keywords to single it down, and sometimes
that strips out information I want... I don't want to store all the
messages in my newsreader, so a plugin for VS.Net that would point to a
site like that would be ideal.

Ken Tucker [MVP] wrote:

Hi,
I was going to share it.

Ken
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"OHM ( Terry Burns )" <[e-mail]> wrote in message
news:%2***** ***********@TK2 MSFTNGP09.phx.g bl...
Cool, maybe you want to share this when its done, or are you going to
sell
it ?

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