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What's the general consensus nowadays on when it is an Article or a Tip/Trick?
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How about I give you the official working definition?
What is an Article?
An article is typically either a tutorial that allows someone to learn about a technique or technology, or an explanation and documentation for code that you are uploading. Articles outline the problem you're trying to solve, the techniques you're using, and a simple explanation of how to use your code or techniques.
What is a Tip/Trick?
A tip has the same layout as a regular article but is meant primarily to provide a quick coding solution or tip. Tips and Tricks are not as exhaustive or extensive, nor do they require as much detail as an article to explain a problem and its solution. Articles may be several pages long, but a tip might be only a couple of paragraphs. Tips simply state a problem and a solution.
In practice:
A tip should aim to solve a problem, and should concisely state a problem and a solution. It may even include a download.
An article should aim to teach the reader about something, be it a technology, a technique, or how to use a piece of code that accompanies the article.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Thanks Chris.
One thing that I always find difficult is moderating Alternative Articles. This[^] seems to be a particular tricky one since the submission is an answer to his claim in this[^] thread being challenged.
Could you please provide a bit of guidance on that particular submission and the Alternative Article type in general?
Soren Madsen
"When you don't know what you're doing it's best to do it quickly" - Jase #DuckDynasty
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I thought it was an alternative to an article, as opposed to an alternative article. 
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  I deserved that.
Soren Madsen
"When you don't know what you're doing it's best to do it quickly" - Jase #DuckDynasty
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That's an article: it's teaching you fundamental knowledge instead of providing a single specific tip.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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My original question is a moot point by now. He has added a lot more to this than what was in the initial submission - I think that was only the Introduction and the first two code blocks.
When I asked, I was actually wondering if it was even worth posting as an Alternative since it could just as well have been contained within a message in the Article's forum.
Anyway, thanks for replying.
Soren Madsen
"When you don't know what you're doing it's best to do it quickly" - Jase #DuckDynasty
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Hello Sir/Madam,
I want to add my article, how?
I can't understand your policy.
Sorry, If you don't like this.
Thanks,
Pradip Sharma
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I have serious trouble editing my article <a href="http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/746051/Programming-the-Roma-Widget-Set-Csharp-X-a-zero">Programming the Roma Widget Set (C# X11) - a zero dependency GUI application framework - Part 3: Composite widgets</a>[<a href="http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/746051/Programming-the-Roma-Widget-Set-Csharp-X-a-zero" target="_blank" title="New Window">^</a>].
If i select 'view' on 'You have a new version in the works. Would you like to view or edit it?', the article overflows the page width - not in general but after the chapter 'XrwBox'.
If i select 'edit' on 'You have a new version in the works. Would you like to view or edit it?', the editor shows the table (New properties) of chapter 'XrwConstraint' but doesn't show any of the tables in subsequent chapters. Moreover the formatting gets completely corrupted (chapter 'XrwPropertyGrid' and subsequent chapters).
I'm not sure, if my tables create the problem or if my tables just make a problem visible. I use this kind of tables for a long time in codeproject articles.
You can 'Revert to last Published Version' of the article without any loss of data, if you need to retrace.
Need some help or hint. Thanks in advance.
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Wow that's a big article. Is there a particular version that is perfect you wish it reverted to? Or barring that can you email me the ideal version of the HTML and I will get it sorted?
Thanks,
Sean Ewington
CodeProject
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you can go back to the last versioned revision (73).
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Please take a look now. Is that OK?
Thanks,
Sean Ewington
CodeProject
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Thanks!
It looked good until i tried to edit something.
I don't know if i did something wrong or if i can avoid anything. But i get this error with FireFox 32.0.0 and new Code Project editor:
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Something bad happened
We're not sure what, but we have a few guesses.
Problem: Invalid viewstate. Client IP: 93.203.201.171 Port: 36200 Referer: http://www.codeproject.com/script/Articles/SubmissionWizard.aspx?aid=746051 Path: /script/Articles/SubmissionWizard.aspx User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:32.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/32.0 ViewState: 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...
Ticket: 0
Server: Web03
Regards, Steffen
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Sometimes a server gets temporarily confused and an error like that occurs, but in that case you would simply try again later.
However, if you would prefer I tackle the update, I would be happy to. Please feel free to email me the updated HTML.
Thanks,
Sean Ewington
CodeProject
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Thank you for your offer (to publish my HTML).
At the moment it seems to be a really good attroach to edit the HTML outside the browser and to email you the result.
Simultaneously i'm working on another (yet very small) article:
<a href="http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/816853/Writing-a-XAML-dialog-application-for-X">http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/816853/Writing-a-XAML-dialog-application-for-X</a>[<a href="http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/816853/Writing-a-XAML-dialog-application-for-X" target="_blank" title="New Window">^</a>]
This article neither includes tables nor any formatting that requires to change from WYSIWYG to HTML editor mode. Nevertheless i get the same trouble during PUBLISH.
If i send you the final HTML, i am afraid to be unable to do a final quality assurance of the articles. And because of the size of the articles i feel uncomfortable to ask you for this.
In the meantime my Firefox has updated to version 32.0.3 but the trouble is still present.
==> Can you recomment a browser to use? I tried MS-IE 10, but the WYSIWYG editor is randomly scrolling.
You wrote 'sometimes a server gets temporarily confused'.
==> Is it a good approach to use the browser's BACK button (to go back from the error page to the code procect article's editor page) and to retry PUBLISH?
Thanks in advance, Steffen
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Because your articles are so long I think it is paramount to make sure you have a local, updated copy. Work on them somewhere offline before posting.
FireFox should be working. Have you tried using Chrome?
Don't worry about sending me large articles. It seems you have a lot of unique formatting which I'm assuming you'd like to keep, so mostly I'd be going over looking for formatting that might cause the editor problems and forcefully pushing the article live.
Thanks,
Sean Ewington
CodeProject
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Thanks for any support.
I became brave after i downloaded the article sources locally and tested out some procedures. Now i found a way to go on...
- I edit the articles offline (Visual Studio 2012 is a fairly good HTML editor).
- I submit directly after pasting the HTML and checking the preview (no editor switch back from HTML to WYSIWYG).
- I try it again (using browsers BACK button) if submit fails.
- I try it with Internet Explorer (10), if FireFox (32) repors server problems repeatedly.
- I think over to split the large articles.
Regards, Steffen
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It seems the images are not attached to the article. Could you please email them to me and I will add them for you?
Thanks,
Sean Ewington
CodeProject
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Thank you. I have already sended you a mail
Regards
Dipon Roy
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Hi All,
I have posted this article under Tips category yesterday but its image and download link is broken. All the image and download zip file is there.
http://www.codeproject.com/Tips/816581/Create-a-Class-Collection-of-another-Class-Extend
Can anybody from Admin/Approval team fix it.
Thanks,
Prakash
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No problem. I have fixed it.
Thanks,
Sean Ewington
CodeProject
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Can you please tell me, step by step, how you are updating the article? Somewhere along the way something is going wrong and if you attempt to update the article that same way again, there will be another problem.
Thanks,
Sean Ewington
CodeProject
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