As you may already know, microsoft is moving its communities to a new platform, based on web forums. The “old” USENET newsgroups are going to be replaced by web forums organized by categories. One for low-level platform development (for the guys working with Platform Builder), another one for native application development (for people writing their real-time applications in C/C++ or people using Silverlight for Windows Embedded) and, last but not least, a forum dedicated to managed application development (for people that are quickly developing their applications with the .NET Compact Framework).

You can find the new forums here:

http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/category/windowsembeddedcompact

Read the “welcome” message to choose the best forum for your question and never forget that to have a good answer you should ask your question in a good way.

Here you can find some suggestions about how you can ask questions (in newsgroup or forums):

http://guruce.com/blogpost/howtoaskquestionsonnewsgroups

(Thanks to Michel Verhagen for the article)