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I tried answering the survey. However since I haven't attended any of the events mentioned (not even other events not listed), I can't submit my answer.
How about a 'None' option for the event list ?
Just my two cents.
Marco Cunha
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Hi Chris,
It seems that people are having problems with posting code at forums. Especially, the trangle brackets are often missing.
Maybe the asp for programming forums you should use Server.HTMLEncode for output? The database table would get new BIT column and HTML form would have new checkbox "Use plain text" (checked by default). The asp output code checks the new column, and if it contains TRUE, uses Server.HTMLEncode. Otherwise, it just spits the untouched contents.
Beginners would leave the option in its default state - their posts would be HTMLEncoded. Advanced users would be still able to use HTML formatting after clearing the option.
Unfortunately, I have no idea how difficult is integrating the smileys with this.
Cheers
Tomasz Sowinski -- http://www.shooltz.com.pl
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That's exactly what will be done. I need to lock down features while I rewrite things using C# - otherwise I'll have a VBScript and a C# version to keep in sync and their ain' that many hours in the day! 
cheers,
Chris Maunder
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Chris,
A minor problem that I came across with my bookmark links (the CP bookmark feature and not the browser ones) is that when articles get moved my bookmark links become invalid!
For example I had a bookmark link to..
http://www.codeproject.com/useritems/cpropertyview.asp
and it now moved (infact today) to..
http://www.codeproject.com/docview/cpropertyview.asp
Is there a way of automatically updating bookmark links as well? Or is this happening on the server while I am typing this and the link will become valid after a few hours?
PS Great work..
Jignesh
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Hi Chris,
Maybe it's time to update links on the newsletter...
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Latest Additions: 12 new articles, 8 updates
http:
So you can remove the redirecting page? 
Cheers,
Paolo
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Hi Chris,
1. After previewing my posting, i do some modifications to it and without closing the preview window, i hit the preview , nothing is happening. Can anything be done on this.
2. In the modify posting page.. i couldnt see the emot icons, they are in a separate page.Can u make it come in the same page, just like new thread page ...
3. If i logon after going to the new message page, the immediate result is a page cannot be displayed in that frame or window, where logon info' is supposed to appear. But it does log me on ..
Cheers
Kannan
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I need to know if I want to report a MS Access bug to Microsoft, how to go about it?
Thanks,
Ammar
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Just a hopefully simple one. When viewing a page of comments that may contain 5,10 or 25 comments, I would like to be able to view 'ALL' comments for a thread as they may wrap from 'page' to 'page'. Would it be possible to mark a comment and say, 'Make this comment the one at the top of the page' and in this manner I would be able to possibly view all comments for a thread at one time.
Thanks.
Chris
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There is a 'View Thread' link in each comment that will do approximately this.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
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This line contains angle brackets: <this is="" text="" inside="" angle="" brackets.="">
Did you see the angle brackets? Testing.
I posted templated code on your forums and the angle brackets and the stuff inside was gone, so they thought I had bad code.
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any text between angle brackets is assumed to be HTML tags.
use < and > to show the brackets in your posts.
<and>
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G'day Chris,
[I'd already posted this message to the Lounge before I realized that this is a more appropriate place. Sorry  ]
I was reading an article on CP last night and wanted to read all of the follow up comments. This meant hitting your server about 30 times to load the content of each message.
Would it be possible or feasible to have an option to display the content of all messages at the end of an article rather than displaying each message one at a time?
I don't know how many other CP visitors do this, but if there's a code article that I'm interested in, I nearly always read all of the comments at the end of the article and this means heaps of individual pages for your server to generate. This single humongous page idea might mean a large hit on your server for the single page, but reduce the total outbound traffic for the server compared to multiple page hits.
Of course, if this is already available and I just didn't see it, please tell me to RTFM and I'll go away and give myself a clip around the ear.
Steve
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Steve Driessens,
Resort Software Pty. Ltd.
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This is definitely an idea I have been tossing around.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
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Hi Chris,
This is just a suggestion (as ridiculous as it may sound, or not). I could be wrong, but it seems like CP slows down when people hit all the forum (based) pages. Articles load up pretty quick most of the times but at times even those are slow to load up.
How about seperating all the forums onto a different site altogether? Something like forums.codeproject.com or discuss.codeproject.com, so this way articles are seperated from the forums? And only comment links from the articles go to the other site (preferably on a different machine).
Just an idea... 
PS Keep up the great work! 
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Yep - it's definitely the forums that are the slow point. Uwe did an excellent job of getting the to where they are today but the unexpected visitor load took us a little by surprise, so they are being rewritten.
Having the forums on another server won't really help. The forums account for probably 90% of the load, so what we are doing is moving to an SQLServer cluster while reworking the algorithms that do the threading. It's a bit of a balancing act between keeping the site cruising along while moving to .NET while at the same time ensuring we keep the current systems up to the demand.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
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Will there be a Perl forum started in the future?
Moderator at www.helpfromtechs.com
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If there is sufficient interest, then definitely.
Register your vote here!
cheers,
Chris Maunder
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Your email notification is a little slow. I just got the email about it now.
Yes, I vote for a Perl forum.
Javascript too.
Moderator at www.helpfromtechs.com
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Sorry. Nevermind about the email thing. I read it as Mar 01. I just now realized that the day is listed first.
Moderator at www.helpfromtechs.com
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Yeah - sorry for the 5 minute delay 
cheers,
Chris Maunder
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Lots of flames always ignite when someone posts something to CodeProject involving a commercial closed-source tool or library. Personally, I like the fact that companies will post articles plugging their tools together with links to evaluation versions. This provides a place for CP people to comment about a tool and discuss how useful it may be. It provides a very useful way for the tool's authors to receive feedback and target their work more precisely to our needs.
The problems arise mostly because people are dissapointed in their expectations---they click on a link expecting to see a free open source tool and instead find that it's some closed-source commercial dingus, so they get upset and turn on the butane.
It seems to me that it would benefit everyone if all articles were clearly categorized in the CodeProject database under two criteria:
- Open/Closed categories>
- Open Source: The article includes all necessary source or has links to open source projects that supply all missing code.
- Uses Closed Source Libraries: The code in the article requires linking with closed-source libraries
- Free Closed Source Tool: The article describes the use of a closed-source tool which is available free to CodeProject users.
- Free/Paid
- Free: The article describes tools that are freely (as in beer) available and redistributable (perhaps with restrictions such as GPL, BSD License, etc.)
- Paid: The article describes tools that are available free to CodeProject users, but which cannot be redistributed freely.
If the article submission page asked people to categorize the articles under these criteria; if articles were prominently labeled (with appropriate icons for brevity; I would suggest using icons similar to the public/protected/private icons used in VC++'s ClassView window) with their categories; and if searching CodeProject offered options to return selections that met certain criteria (e.g., only Free, only Open Source, etc.) it might make CodeProject a bit easier for everyone to use and help us all to remain a bit more civil to one another while we're at it.
He was allying himself to science, for what was science but the absence of prejudice backed by the presence of money? --- Henry James, The Golden Bowl
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Um...OK. I think I can do that (or at least the equivalent) but it will take some time.
Patience, grasshopper.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
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Chris,
One more in my long list of suggestions for imnproving the signal-to-noise ratio for CodeProject readers. It would be cool if you could display articles' ratings on the table-of-contents pages that come up when you click on a subject heading on the left side of the screen (e.g., http://www.codeproject.com/buttonctrl/) and in the results of searching.
He was allying himself to science, for what was science but the absence of prejudice backed by the presence of money? --- Henry James, The Golden Bowl
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This is WAY up on my list-of-cool-stuff-to-do.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
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Chris,
I'd really like to be able to view the forums and lounge with a "collapsed thread" view that would list only the top-level post on each thread. This would let me navigate past long threads (such as flame fests) without having to hit the "next page" link so many times.
I'd also like to be able to switch between sorting the forums (and lounge) by the date of the original post (as you do now) and by the date of the most recent response (so I can quickly identify live discussions that may have started some time ago).
I hope that it's possible to do these two things without too much trouble.
Thanks for all the work you do on Code Project,
Jonathan
He was allying himself to science, for what was science but the absence of prejudice backed by the presence of money? --- Henry James, The Golden Bowl
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