That's all true, but I noticed that in general I'm not getting responses here. I probably need to only answer questions here and ask in a different forum, even though there are few VFP forums I know of.

>>Hi everybody,
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>>I noticed that even on quite newbie questions I don't get responses. Is it because I don't ask correctly or can not formulate the question?
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>No-one on this site is under any obligation to answer any of your questions. If you absolutely, positively need answers you can escalate questions in other places:
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>- .Net-specific sites
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>- Some sites such as experts-exchange.com offer formal recognition to their experts (e.g. "points") so you may find them more responsive. Ed Rauh used to spend a fair bit of time there, that's probably a pretty good endorsement
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>- My understanding is that on some of the MS-specific newsgroups there are MS employees and/or MVPs, part of whose job descriptions may be to monitor the groups and respond. IOW they are paid or otherwise compensated to answer/contribute, which again may make the group more responsive
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>- You could purchase support from MS or a third-party support company. Yes, this costs money, but if you or your employer are losing time, that costs money, too