Discussion forums are needed when you are looking for help and sometimes help isn’t available on sites (like: when you Google) in the way you need. Discussion forums are like heaven for a coder when it comes to solve confusing problems. I have compiled a list of some famous programming forums that will always help you:

.NET Framework

%tags MSDN forums
General forums about C# programming

%tags  ASP.NET forums
forums about ASP.NET

%tags

 Silverlight forums
officialy from Microsoft

 %tags Official IIS forums

 

PHP

%tags  PHP freaks 

%tags PHP Builder forums

%tags  Devshed php development forums

%tags Weber forums

%tagsPHP free chat forums

MySQL

%tags MySQL offical forums

 

Ruby on Rails

%tags Rails forum

 %tags  Ruby forum

 

Java

%tagsSun forums Sun’s official Java forums

%tagsDZone Forums

 

Update:
Oh! How I forgot this one: (thanks to Imran)

%tags

Stackoverflow
For all kind of programming Q and A.

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