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1. Too technical
2. Just right
3. Not tech enough
4. I only attend if I'm a speaker/vendor now...
Cheers,
Simon
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SimonS wrote:
3. Not tech enough
The few they have in my area (none in the past few years that I've heard about) have been excellent, but lacking in depth. A little less overview, and more details about practical application of the info would be nice. I agree, this would be a good weekly poll topic - let's see how everyone else feels about it. Of course, someone will post the obligatory CListCtrl reponse.;)
"Your village called -
They're missing their idiot."
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What do you mean by "MS event"? Does this include all conferences, labs, MVP days etc that are run by Microsoft? Or conferences and events about MS technology but not run by MS (eg VSLive)?
cheers,
Chris Maunder
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I was referring to things like: MSDN Essentials, Tech Ed, Devdays / MS Connect.
Chris Maunder wrote:
MVP days
Haven't attended one yet, but will be out there next year. 
What's it like?
Cheers,
Simon
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So where's option #5 - Tech enough... if by "tech" you mean "VB gushing"?
Oh, and why is this in the suggestions forum? 
I think it's cool that Shog's coding johnson is longer than everyone elses
-- JoeSox 10/8/03
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Shog9 wrote:
Oh, and why is this in the suggestions forum?
Er... it's a suggestion for a weekly poll.
Cheers,
Simon
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Nishant S wrote:
5. I cannot go, as it's held in the US and I am not in the US
That would be #6. #5[^]
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Nishant S wrote:
5. I cannot go, as it's held in the US and I am not in the US
AFAIK, neither is SimonS... 
I think it's cool that Shog's coding johnson is longer than everyone elses
-- JoeSox 10/8/03
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Nope. He's a Saffa. 
We have quite a few MSDN Essential workshops and other Microsoft events here in Johannesburg. I used to work in the building right next door to Microsoft so we used to just walk to the events. 
Despite the high cost of living, it remains popular.
Build a man a fire, and he'll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, and he'll be warm for the rest of his life.
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I once went to an MS 'event' in South Africa. It was the introduction/presentation of Windows XP. Not really tech but still quite interesting.
Paul 
That demands capital punishment!! Death by a herd of marauding Bobs! - Ryan Binns
modified 18-Jul-18 11:59am.
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How about a discussion area dedicated to UML Modeling?
Paul Watson wrote:
"At the end of the day it is what you produce that counts, not how many doctorates you have on the wall."
George Carlin wrote:
"Don't sweat the petty things, and don't pet the sweaty things."
Jörgen Sigvardsson wrote:
If the physicists find a universal theory describing the laws of universe, I'm sure the a**hole constant will be an integral part of that theory.
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I third it and our UML designer fourths it.
I support two teams: the Canucks and whoever is playing the Leafs!
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A significant percentage of newbie posters systematically forget to check this option on, so that their snippets of code are unreadable. My proposal tries to remedy this while having the least impact on more seasoned users:
- This option is a user profile dependent config option.
- Existing users keep their status quo (i.e. the option is initially set off
for them.) - Starting from the date the patch is applied, new users will have the option set on by default.
- Every time an user posts a message, the option used (set on/set off) gets saved to her profile as the default for subsequent posts.
What do you think of this? Regards
Joaquín M López Muñoz
Telefónica, Investigación y Desarrollo
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good idea
for me the best solution would be that the parser will not handle html tags inside the <pre> and <code> sections
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I wouldn't like to be deprived of the possibility of embedding tags inside <pre> sections. It allows me to write things like:
Change the function declaration to
extern object clone(<font color=ff0000>const</font> object& x);
Furthermore, newbies usually paste the code without any <pre> (they probably don't know this can be used.)
Joaquín M López Muñoz
Telefónica, Investigación y Desarrollo
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...a Bob bobble head doll!
WHAT a treasure! (And highly collectable, as well.) 
Ya gotta do it - ya just gotta! Dave, Chris, trust me on this one! It`s gonna be GrrrrrrrrrrrrreeeeaaaTTTT!
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Already checked into pricing.
All I can say is: 
cheers,
Chris Maunder
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Maybe if you order 500,000 of them, the price per unit should definitely come down
Sonork 100.11743 Chicken Little
"You're obviously a superstar." - Christian Graus about me - 12 Feb '03
Within you lies the power for good - Use it!
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Maybe I've already overlooked them in my haste, but I haven't seen any forums devoted to DirectX, OpenGL, or other API's of the like. What happens when someone has a question about a DirectX project they're working on but they're doing it in VB. Yes they can take it to the VB forum, but there's also a lot of people who know DirectX in the C++ part as well. The opposite would be true as well. A few ideas on how to work this:
-One forum devoted to API's as a whole
-Separate forums for the most popular API's
-Subforums for the API's under the respective languages ( C#->API )
-Subforums for the different API's under the language forums ( VB->DirectX, C++->OpenGL, etc )
Any thoughts?
Always Fear the Man with Nothing to Lose
Jeryth
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IMHO, the current approach - focusing more on the task than on a potential tool - is better in most cases. However, it would be nice in certain situations to have a very granular API forum - being able to group questions & answers by a specific API (all random data for SetWindowPos()) could come in handy were it used correctly.
Still, the CP search function does quite well for this last use, and given the potential for abuse (users cross-posting when they can't decide on a correct forum) seems like it may be an acceptable compromize for the time being.
Shog9 -- Exchanging a walk-on part in the War for the lead role in a Cage
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