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Use bing.com and ask this question:
where is the microsoft community place to post questions about visual studio
Of all the responses, a link to here seems to be the best, but it is clearly not the right place. (Because the drop down fields for "Select a tag" and "Select a child tag" are not suited for Visual Studio questions.)
Please provide a link to a good place to post issues about software development. Visual Studio 2022, MFC, C++, just in case it makes a difference.
It should be :
Developer technologies | Visual Studio | ...
or for C++ :
Developer technologies | C++
But those new tags are a complete mess, as there is also "Windows development" tag (like if "Visual Studio" was not "Windows development") and many questions which have nothing to see with programming are now posted with those tags...
That appears to be right, but, its horrible. Is that the best that Microsoft can do with their forums? There used to be a bunch of forums under the title MSDN, Microsoft Developer Network.
Is there a way or method to say this in a much stronger way than can be said here?
Castorix31's answer seems to be correct. I do not dispute his reply.
BUT,..., the current Microsoft community boards are TERRIBLE. (Stand up and shout TERRIBLE about three million times.) Some years ago, there was MSDN, MicroSoft Developer Network. It had forums related to software development, forums designed for average developers who need help with problems that should be minor, but halted development or required an absurd work around. Forums that were NAVIGATABLE. Forums with categories that I, a middle or low level developer, could navigate and see what others had done. Categories that were appropriate for developers with many different languages and tools.
Here is an example. Using MFC and C++, there is a function to clear several edit controls. It has the line, that Copilot, an incredibly good tool, helped with:
lp_cedit->Clear();
// lp_cedit->_T("");
the long pointer to the edit control and its clear function did not work. But it builds without error and runs. Another bing.com search produced the second line.
Uncomment that line out and the build produces 5 errors, the first four of which point to nowhere near that line of code. The last error states: syntax error: ‘string’ Changing double quotes for single quotes made no difference. But that is not the problem right now. That fact that it produces completely unrelated errors is.
Back to this rant:
To the best of my ability, those forums are gone. Reference Castorix31’s answer again and posing questions with those HORRIBLE tags and child tags. Forums for software developers should be separate from basic Windows 11 user forums.
Has anyone tried to get this to the Microsoft people/department/managers who might care about this?
