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When you follow your own tip on your search page, it gives an invalid syntax.
For example, using your sample... "Grid Control" NOT MFC
yields:
No results found (Syntax error occurred near 'Control""'. Expected ''''' in search condition '""Grid Control"" AND NOT "MFC"'.)
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Instead of (or in addition to) the long URLs that are used now for locating articles, it would be nice if a shorter form were available.
For example: http://www.codeproject.com/soap/WlogCVersion.asp could be turned into
http://www.codeproject.com/Article.asp?ID=12345
This example may not be a huge difference in length, but it would certainly be easier to find again in the future.
I know several people who print out the articles to work with them, but the URL gets truncated and is therfore useless for finding the article again when looking for updates or to download the examples.
OK I'll admit it.... I've printed articles, to "review" them on the can, and had to hunt for them all over again because the URL was truncated.
Microsoft places article ids on their knowledge base articles and once you know the format, that's all you need to find the article again.
Thanks for reading
Brad Bruce
-- modifed at 8:28 Thursday 25th August, 2005
 One of my coworkers just pointed out that the URL is printed at the top of the article (not just what the browser prints)
I still think it would be easier to type in an article ID (maybe from the home page). Maybe if one were in the area where the date posted, date updated, # views, rating etc were located.
Brad
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Would it be possible to add the Per Page settings to our My Settings section rather than in the forums? You can't set it without signing in anyway. The reason I'm asking is that if I have to reboot or it's Monday (highly convenient) all my cookies get wiped. Perhaps some of the other forum settings could also be set to defaults for the user.
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I'm not sure if anyone else has the same problem, but I often experience difficulties with CP session while browsing around the site, sometimes it just expires for no obvious reason, like the session timeout has been set to 10 seconds or something.. Really annoying.. I't okay once you check the 'remember me' checkbox, but I obviously can't do that everywhere I go.. 
Is this a known issue or..?
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I think a wiki on specific topics would be a cool idea.
There are many articles on CodeProject, but many of they are very similar.
It doesn't make sense for example to create ten articles about working threads and so on.
So I think that there should be a wiki with a small team of admins that create big topics, e.g. threads, stream sockets, dgram sockets, streaming, audio, 3d, specific mathematic topics, and so on, and every user can add/change things.
So it could be possible that every user of CodeProject could improve articles to make everything better! So we could write good article texts instead of buggy source code, which can be very time consuming for a single person. That would make life easier!
What do you think?
Don't try it, just do it! 
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I would *love* a WinAPI WIKI. Somewhere to collect comments, tips, errata on the various Windows APIs... Not sure if it'd fly, but would be fun to try. Especially with VS integration...
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That would be awsome!  If I had the resources I'd start the thing today but..I don't..  Anyone rich here?
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Alexander M. wrote:
I think a wiki on specific topics would be a cool idea.
There are many articles on CodeProject, but many of they are very similar.
It doesn't make sense for example to create ten articles about working threads and so on.
So I think that there should be a wiki with a small team of admins that create big topics, e.g. threads, stream sockets, dgram sockets, streaming, audio, 3d, specific mathematic topics, and so on, and every user can add/change things.
So it could be possible that every user of CodeProject could improve articles to make everything better! So we could write good article texts instead of buggy source code, which can be very time consuming for a single person. That would make life easier!
What do you think?
I think the diversity of articles on the same subject is one of CodeProject's strengths. I prefer to read articles that have a single author's voice, rather than a tech document built by a committee.
Michael
CP Blog [^] Development Blog [^]
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Michael P Butler wrote:
built by a committee
I see that you did not even understand the concept of wikis!
Don't try it, just do it!
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Alexander M. wrote:
I see that you did not even understand the concept of wikis!
I well aware of how wikis work. The trouble with them is that the contents receives so many edits that it is no longer the work of an individual. I prefer to read a personal view on the subject and not get into pissing contests on whose view is more correct.
Wikis have their place. I just don't feel that place is on CodeProject
Michael
CP Blog [^] Development Blog [^]
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A wiki can of course not replace the old article system, but it can extend it. We need a wiki because we can combine difference nice aspects that way!
The articles about the win32 api can be replaced by a wiki, but not all the other articles.
Don't try it, just do it!
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I like wiki concept.
Is not a comitee, is like a consensual style of writing. Useful for a knowledge base.
I know of dotnet.wikis.com, but I like more a wiki on the style of wikipedia, powered by wikimedia.
I'm not aware of a wiki implemented on .Net with all the features of wikimedia, if you can find a good one, would be cool, a wiki of .Net using php doesn't looks good.
BTW, I have the resources to start a mediawiki, but again, I like to see it over asp.net.
Eduardo Diaz
site | english blog | spanish blog
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Did Web8 have bran for breakfast?
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How about letting a person choose whether or not they want to see votes on messages? For example, I don't really like the voting on messages in the Lounge so I wouldn't mind not seeing all the colours, votes and voting options. I know there is a noise option but it doesn't remove the colours and votes totally.
Not a serious thing - I can live with the colours 
The man who smiles when things go wrong has thought of someone he can blame it on.
If you tell a man there are 300 billion stars in the universe, he'll believe you. But if you tell him a bench has just been painted, he'll have to touch it to be sure.
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Drivers are an odd thing:
Written in C, but the complexity is not the C language.
Functionally simple, yet fiendishly complex.
They dont fit into the other forums, C++, operating systems for example.
So can we have a new forum for windows and linux driver developement?
Nunc est bibendum!
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My lates article seems to be wider than a screenfull ( this one[^])
Am I doing something wrong that it is making it appear so?
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Ex Datis:
Duncan Jones
Merrion Computing Ltd
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Merrion wrote:
My lates article seems to be wider than a screenfull ( this one[^])
Am I doing something wrong that it is making it appear so?
In Firefox, all the forums I visit are too big for the screen, they seem to be about five pixels to wide and this is causing a scroll-bar to appear. I don't know if this is the same issue.
Michael
CP Blog [^] Development Blog [^]
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The code snippets (inside the PRE blocks) are too wide. Restrict their width to 600 pixels and you'll be fine.
Nish
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As Nish said - keep the source code snippets fully visible within the edit window when editing the article and you'll be fine. I've gone ahead and made some edits to illustrate. Take a look now.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
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That makes sense - and it looks much better now, thanks.
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Duncan Jones
Merrion Computing Ltd
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How do I filter all question submitted by me or replied by me irrespective of subject ???
Since it is speard over several pages , I could find my query appearing on board as quickly I needed.
love2code
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How can i find the contest winner articles in the site? not just the recent but all
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Try this[^].
cheers,
Chris Maunder
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A place to post answers to the same questions that keep coming up on the lounge over and over and over and over and over ...etc.
I floated the idea in the lounge: http://www.codeproject.com/lounge.asp?msg=1195457#xx1195457xx[^]
and it seemed to be well received.
"A preoccupation with the next world pretty clearly signals an inability to cope credibly with this one."
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