SDK Forum

I think there should be forum for SDK programming regardlous of language. Most questions and answers will use C++ but that should not be a requirement.
I apologize if this has already been suggested.
[208 byte] By [Sam Hobbs] at [2007-11-17 21:17:49]
# 1 Re: SDK Forum
Which SDK?
Brad Jones at 2007-11-10 3:38:03 >
# 2 Re: SDK Forum
Contents of the Platform SDK ( http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/sdkintro/sdkintro/contents_of_the_platform_sdk.asp)
Sam Hobbs at 2007-11-10 3:39:03 >
# 3 Re: SDK Forum
There are tons of SDKs, hence the reason I asked.

You were asking specifically for the Windows SDK and the .NET Enterprise Server SDKs. Most people will end up asking questions related to these SDKs in the language forums (VB, .NET, VC++, etc.). Those that don't fit can be asked in the Windows forums. I think that most people would not know when to ask a question in these forums versus more specific forums (either language or subsections of these SDKs). Some of the subsections are already covered on the site (like ADO).

Or, am I missing something?

Brad
Brad Jones at 2007-11-10 3:40:01 >
# 4 Re: SDK Forum
Evidently your predecessor thought it would be useful to have a Win32 SDK forum. See Win32 Programming (http://www.dev-archive.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=187908) (Tom Archer is the previous moderator of dev-archive forums).

Also see Split up the VC++ forum (http://www.dev-archive.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=187713). There might be others also.
Sam Hobbs at 2007-11-10 3:40:57 >
# 5 Re: SDK Forum
See Calculating processor utilization % using WMI (http://www.dev-archive.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=231375).

That might be an example of where a Platform SDK forum would help. I don't know what existing forum would be good for it. I think it is unlikely to get help in the VB forum, mainly because that forum gets little use. I could convert this code to C++ and I probably will but I think it should not be required to do that to get help.

The forum that it is in, the General Windows and DNA Programming (http://www.dev-archive.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?s=&forumid=30) forum is close to being a Platform SDK forum but it is under the category "Windows 2000 Central".

I think if there were a Platform SDK forum it would get more attention and this question would be appropriate eventhough I am using VBScript. This is a modified version of a VBScript in the Platform SDK.
Sam Hobbs at 2007-11-10 3:41:59 >
# 6 Re: SDK Forum
Sam if you got any problems getting cpu % from WMI in c++/ Platform SDK let me know ;) It's real easy, just the documentation on WMI is real lame ;)
Mick at 2007-11-10 3:42:58 >
# 7 Re: SDK Forum
I got it figured out using the Microsoft WMI newsgroup. I forget what the problem was that I posted a question about in the dev-archive forum but I think it was something simple and I realized what the problem was. I searched the VC forum and found an answer to another problem. The Microsoft WMI newsgroup answered a couple or more other questions.
Sam Hobbs at 2007-11-10 3:44:06 >