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There has been talk about creating per-tag FAQ pages.
Assuming this is going to be implemented at some point, I suggest this question here as a collection point for such FAQ entries in the various tags, rather than putting them into the original question, to avoid cluttering the discussion that takes place there.
I gave the source in the text (as a comment, wanted to keep the body as a clean prototype like the rest), but should've left a comment, too: it isn't me that deserves the credit. :) @que
thanks! I've integrated ten second drafts of each of these into the wiki, except for the two external program ones, which I'm not entirely sure about actually providing the right answers for.
Yup - I think frequency should be our focus rather than the actual quality of the question. A lot of FAQ entries are bound to deal with newbie questions and common mistakes.
@John: I agree with you in principle; my concern is that the types of people who we really, really want to see this FAQ/homepage are exactly the ones who don't know the difference. If we could make the .NET questions also show up for C#, then I'd be in favour. As it is, all of the above questions could apply to any .NET language.
I have no intention of enabling those who don't know the difference. If they don't know, they'll find out when we, who do know the difference, separate the topics. We can provide a link in the C# and VB.NET FAQ's to the .NET FAQ.
@John: As long as you also link to the .NET page from the C# and VB pages and explain what the difference is there, I'm fine with that. Nobody said that the tag homepage/FAQ had to be just a list of questions; in this case, the first paragraph should probably be something explaining how it's divided.
For some reason, I'm the only person so far to edit the WCF tag wiki. I'm not the most expert WCF person on Stackoverflow! Please comment on the WCF tag wiki.
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