A day only has 24 hours so one has to choose what to read and/or track. Microsoft has been advocating several ways to communicate with them one of which being Microsoft Technical Forums, others being asp.net forums and a myriad of newsgroups.

By far the most useful one for me up to now has been Microsoft Technical Forums. Even better, if you search for help in Visual Studio 2005 one of the sources will be this very forum. I learn the best by example and dry definitions from MSDN library are good when you want to nail down some corner case or similar, but nothing beats a small working sample and that's exactly what you can find in this forum.

One very cool feature of the forum is a possibility to mark a post as being correct answer to a posted problem so a very quick glance is enough to zoom in on the "meat". I am pleased to find that forums are frequented by Microsoft developers who actively participate and help others. So it's not just "user helps user" type of forum but a great channel of communication between those producing and those using Microsoft technologies.