Article Writing

18-Oct-09 2:41

I've seen the following message a few times (at least 3?) today:

Article is locked for editing by Smitha Vijayan. Lock expires in 13 minutes.

However, only one update has been done to my article (it is on its second version), beyond my initial submission. Is there another reason an editor would need to lock an article for editing? I ask this just out of curiosity, not because it is a bug or anything. I would like to know if something I'm not noticing is being done to my article.

Also, I got an email today that said my article was posted. One of the things it said was:

Please take a moment to review the article to ensure that there are no errors. If there are any problems please let me know.

Notice that it says "please let me know". Who is "me"? The editor listed at the bottom of the email? How would I contact this person? The reply email address is "webmaster@codeproject.com". Will a reply automatically be forwarded to the correct person?

Visual Studio is an excellent GUIIDE.

AspDotNetDev18-Oct-09 13:44

18-Oct-09 13:44

aspdotnetdev wrote:
at least 3

At least 5 times now.

Visual Studio is an excellent GUIIDE.

AspDotNetDev18-Oct-09 22:25

18-Oct-09 22:25

aspdotnetdev wrote:
At least 5 times now

7 now.

Visual Studio is an excellent GUIIDE.

Luc Pattyn19-Oct-09 3:35

Luc Pattyn

19-Oct-09 3:35

great thread. love the cliff hangers. can't wait to read more. Laugh | :laugh:

Luc Pattyn

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Sean Ewington19-Oct-09 3:38

19-Oct-09 3:38

The idea behind the article lockout is so that authors and editors don't step on each other's toes and redo each other's work.

I think it is a bug, and thank you very much for telling me. Because the lockout is only 20 minutes this bug is difficult to catch and replicate. I can't thank you enough, I'm hoping this is what we will need to fix the issue

Thanks,
Sean Ewington
The Code Project

AspDotNetDev19-Oct-09 14:39

19-Oct-09 14:39

Sean Ewington wrote:
I'm hoping this is what we will need to fix the issue

Let me know how that turns out.

Visual Studio is an excellent GUIIDE.

AspDotNetDev20-Oct-09 9:40

20-Oct-09 9:40

FYI, it's been a couple days and I'm still seeing the lockout message every now and then. Just saw it right now in fact. Thought I'd let you know that it appears to be an ongoing issue. I'll give it maybe a week, then I'll report it on the site bugs/suggestions forum if it is still happening.

Visual Studio is an excellent GUIIDE.

Chris Maunder20-Oct-09 9:51

Chris Maunder

20-Oct-09 9:51

No need to report - we're all aware.

cheers,
Chris Maunder

The Code Project Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP

AspDotNetDev20-Oct-09 10:04

Unable to modify for article.

20-Oct-09 10:04

Chris Maunder wrote:
we're all aware

We are the collective. We share a hive mind. Resistance is futile.

And so called experts say hamsters are solitary creatures. Poke tongue | ;-P

Visual Studio is an excellent GUIIDE.

jebarson9-Oct-09 4:09

jebarson

9-Oct-09 4:09

hi there,

One of my article is not showing up an option to modify to me. The url is A Developer's First Look at Visual Studio 2010 [^]

Please let me know once you fix this issue.

Is there is anything you cant do?

Re: Unable to modify for article.

Sean Ewington9-Oct-09 4:13

Unable to modify for article.

9-Oct-09 4:13

Hi jebarson,

Now that your article has been edited by our editors, the only way to update it is to submit the updated source code and HTML to us. You can use the “Get Article’s HTML” from the link in the upper right hand corner of your article, and send both updated HTML and zipped sourced code to us at either my email address, or submit@codeproject.com.

Please let me know if you have any questions about the process.

Thanks,
Sean Ewington
The Code Project

jebarson9-Oct-09 4:07

jebarson

9-Oct-09 4:07

hi there,

One of my article is not showing up an option to modify it to me. The url is A Developer's First Look at Visual Studio 2010 [^]

Please let me know once you fix this issue.

Is there is anything you cant do?

New Article pending?

Andy_L_J8-Oct-09 20:18

Andy_L_J

8-Oct-09 20:18

Admins, I released my article to the wild - Table-Value Parameters in SQL Server 2008 - VB.NET - and I think I have left that little check box checked that says something about "dont publish" in error.

Can you check it out?

Appreciate your help.

Edit - Found the problem, edited the article and should be apples now Big Grin | :-D

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Re: New Article pending?

Chris Maunder9-Oct-09 2:43

Chris Maunder

9-Oct-09 2:43

All fixed? Excellent.

cheers,
Chris Maunder

The Code Project Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP

Yellow N mark next to the article title.

Alexander Yegorov6-Oct-09 10:23

Alexander Yegorov

6-Oct-09 10:23

Can anybody tell me what this mark mean?

Re: Yellow N mark next to the article title.

Sean Ewington6-Oct-09 10:37

Re: Yellow N mark next to the article title.

6-Oct-09 10:37

New Article

Thanks,
Sean Ewington
The Code Project

Alexander Yegorov6-Oct-09 11:17

Alexander Yegorov

6-Oct-09 11:17

Thank you.

Removing an article

rawwool (Rahul Kumar)5-Oct-09 10:05

rawwool (Rahul Kumar)

5-Oct-09 10:05

Hello,

I am not able to support the queries on one of my articles. I'd like to withdraw it for the time being. I am extremely busy on a project and I hate not responding to the queries. Please let me know how can I withdraw/remove my article. It has 16 votes.

Regards

Rahul Kumar

Sean Ewington5-Oct-09 10:06

5-Oct-09 10:06

Sure Rahul.

Which one?

Thanks,
Sean Ewington
The Code Project

rawwool (Rahul Kumar)5-Oct-09 10:11

rawwool (Rahul Kumar)

5-Oct-09 10:11

Article: "WPF Masala - The sliding and flying windows"

Thanks

Rahul

Sean Ewington5-Oct-09 10:13

5-Oct-09 10:13

Done.

I have changed the article to composing status

Thanks,
Sean Ewington
The Code Project

Please let me know your thoughts...SLX Communication Framework series

rawwool (Rahul Kumar)5-Oct-09 10:19

rawwool (Rahul Kumar)

5-Oct-09 10:19

Hi Sean,

Thanks! But how would I delete this article altogether, permanently please?

Regards

Rahul

Mike Marynowski1-Oct-09 19:14

Mike Marynowski

1-Oct-09 19:14

Hi All,

So after all this site has done for me, I think it is time to give back a bit. I've been developing this TCP communication framework on and off for a couple years, and we use it here internally for all our projects. It is essentially on complete rewrite #3, which seems to be when I get everything exactly how I want it.

Brief overview: SLX Communication Framework lets you use a single modeling tool and framework to make all your .NET based apps talk to each other - full .NET Framework, Compact Framework, and Silverlight. The framework includes VS2008 code generators and visual designers. It has multiple levels of abstraction, each with their own suitable use cases:

- Command-based object exchange API, built on:
- Whole-Message exchange API, built on:
- platform-independent sockets API

I have at least 5 parts planned, possibly double that by the time I'm done...there is just a ton to talk about. So far on the drawing board for the content I want to cover:

- who should read what
- defining the problem
- current options and associated limitations
- my idea of an "ideal" communication framework, reasoning behind it
- architecural overview of the actual framework, how it overcomes limitations of current options
- explaining how each platform was abstracted to a common sockets API and related design decisions
- very basic sample client/server app using the common sockets API
- building the messaging API on top of the sockets API
- very basic sample client/server app using the messageing API
- building command-based generic object exchange API on top of the messaging API
- building a VS2008 C#/VB code generator that parses the communication definition language and spits out the base classes and "fill in the blanks" methods
- building VS2008 Client item template and Server item template
- building a visual designer to graphically build your communication definition file
- sample client/server application with silverlight, compact, and desktop clients that demonstrates how to implement ludicrous amounts of code sharing between all the projects

I bet I can think of a few more things to throw in there as well. Basically, the point is that it is a very extensive framework and there are lots of angles to tackle things. It is fairly feature-complete right up to visual designers, code generators, etc, so someone looking to develop a different framework, even entirely unrelated, could possibly get a lot of useful information. But there is a LOT of potential information.

So...question: based on the limited info above, do you agree that one article would be brutally overwhelming? If so, is there an upper limit on the number of parts a series should have? What would be your criteria for deciding what goes into article #1 and what should wait until article #2?

I was thinking of having an intro article that covers, say, the first 5 points. It would be a useful intro for everyone. In the "who should read this" section, I would recommend which parts are suitable for each audience. For example:

- "If you are just looking for an easy way to implement security, two-way object exchange...etc... in your project, you can safely skip to articles C, D, and E."

Another possible option: I was considering creating seperate series articles to cover things like the VS plugin stuff (code generator and item templates). But I'm not sure I like that since really it is very closely tied to the communication framework, and I sort of envisioned this series as a complete documentation of the making of this framework.

And one last question (for now): should I write and release all the articles at once, a few at a time, or one at a time?

Appreciate your input.

Thanks,

--Mike

Re: Please let me know your thoughts...SLX Communication Framework series

Sean Ewington2-Oct-09 8:16