23.4. Ask a Good Question, Get a Good Answer
After you search for an answer and try to resolve the problem, don't be shy about asking for help in the ASP.NET newsgroups and Web forums. Don't worry about looking like a dummy — nobody knows everything and everyone starts with zero expertise.
To get a good answer for a coding issue, boil your problem down to a simple example. If someone can run your code and reproduce the error without going to a lot of trouble, you stand a good chance of getting a solution quickly. Reporting, "It doesn't work," isn't enough. Include the error message and a description of what's failing along with what you want or expect to happen.
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