Article Writing

Pete O'Hanlon8-Jun-09 23:37

8-Jun-09 23:37

If you can't edit the article, this means that your article has been edited. What you need to do now, is get a copy of the article's HTML and make your changes at your end, then submit your updated article via email.

"WPF has many lovers. It's a veritable porn star!" - Josh Smith

As Braveheart once said, "You can take our freedom but you'll never take our Hobnobs!" - Martin Hughes.

brochpirate9-Jun-09 0:11

brochpirate

9-Jun-09 0:11

Thanks.
Will do that.
BP

Pete O'Hanlon9-Jun-09 1:50

9-Jun-09 1:50

You're welcome.

"WPF has many lovers. It's a veritable porn star!" - Josh Smith

As Braveheart once said, "You can take our freedom but you'll never take our Hobnobs!" - Martin Hughes.

Steef D.10-Jun-09 1:18

Steef D.

10-Jun-09 1:18

Should you also do that if you have upgraded your code ? I've updates some source to support 32 & 64 bit platforms.

regards, Stephan

Pete O'Hanlon10-Jun-09 1:40

10-Jun-09 1:40

Yes.

"WPF has many lovers. It's a veritable porn star!" - Josh Smith

As Braveheart once said, "You can take our freedom but you'll never take our Hobnobs!" - Martin Hughes.

What category should I put my article in?

cefarix3-Jun-09 15:46

cefarix

3-Jun-09 15:46

I'm writing an article about how to write Browser Helper Objects (BHOs) using plain C++ (without MFC or ATL). Along with explaining the BHO code, the article also explains in detail the COM code. Should I put this article in the "COM / COM+" section or in the "Shell and IE programming" section. Or, better, is it possible to put the article under both sections?

Re: What category should I put my article in?

Michael Dunn3-Jun-09 20:21

Michael Dunn

3-Jun-09 20:21

I'd go for the Shell section, since you're writing about a shell feature. Just because something uses COM, doesn't mean it automatically goes in the COM section. (Heck, you have to use COM when using a great number of shell features.)

--Mike--

Submission error

I-Flite1-Jun-09 21:51

I-Flite

1-Jun-09 21:51

Hi there,
I recently posted my first article on codeproject, but I believe there was a bug in the submission process.
The wizard kept complaining that I hadn't filled in the "author"-field, but here was no author field there, only a co-author field (and I had no co-authors on this one). The error message was clearly misleading, so to be able to proceed, I tried a lot of tweaks to the fields and info I had entered. It wouldn't allow my own username (4638203) in the co-author field, so I tried 4638202 instead (just to get along in the wizard), which it accepted. However, now it seems I'm not the registered owner of the article. It doesn't appear under "my articles", and I can't edit it.

My username is 4638203,
and the article I posted can be found at http://www.codeproject.com/KB/cs/Searchable.aspx.

I tried mailing webmaster@codeproject.com, but only get an error message in reply. Can somebody help me on this issue?

Regards,
Espen

Re: Submission error

Pete O'Hanlon1-Jun-09 21:58

1-Jun-09 21:58

If you want an employee of Code Project or an editor to see your message, you should post your message here[^].

"WPF has many lovers. It's a veritable porn star!" - Josh Smith

As Braveheart once said, "You can take our freedom but you'll never take our Hobnobs!" - Martin Hughes.

Why I can't edit my article.

Re: Submission error

I-Flite1-Jun-09 22:09

I-Flite

1-Jun-09 22:09

Thanks man.

Mohammad Elsheimy22-May-09 6:04

Mohammad Elsheimy

22-May-09 6:04

Two days ago, I posted the article Programmatically Turning on the Screen Saver[^]

Now, I can't edit it. I can't see the Modify button.

By the way, I think that someone re-formatted it.

Is that the problem?
Does he/she preveted me from editing the article?

Please help me.

Re: Why I can't edit my article.

Hans Dietrich22-May-09 6:21

Hans Dietrich

22-May-09 6:21

Hi Mohammad,

The reason for the difference you are seeing is because your article has been edited by a CP editor. How can you tell? First, the article's header (initially a light blue) changes to yellow/tan; second, if you look at the bottom line of the article page, you will see Editor: Deeksha Shenoy. This is the name of the CP editor who edited your article. You should have been sent an email when this happened.

What this all means is that you can no longer directly edit your article. Instead, you must zip up the download, new article html, and new images, and send them to submit at codeproject.com. Be sure to include the url of your article in the email text. For subject, say "Article update" or something like that. After you send the email, it will take a few days for the update to be processed, depending on how busy the editors are. If you want to check the status, send an email to the same address, asking where it is in the queue.

BTW, this forum is not really meant for problems with articles after they have been submitted, since the CP staff does not regularly check this forum. If you need help with an article already published, you should use the Site Bugs / Suggestions forum.

Best wishes,
Hans

[Hans Dietrich Software]

Re: Why I can't edit my article.

Mohammad Elsheimy22-May-09 6:43

Mohammad Elsheimy

22-May-09 6:43

Thanks alot Smile | :)

This was very helpful Smile | :)

Regards,
Mohammad Elsheimy

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How does the article moderation process work?

Stephan Johnson21-May-09 22:43

Stephan Johnson

21-May-09 22:43

Last night I added three articles (Genesis Hybrid Smart Client Framework part I[^], Genesis Hybrid Smart Client Framework part II[^] andGenesis Hybrid Smart Client Framework part III[^]).

Of these the first two were moderated and publically visible within minutes of posting the article. The third article however (Genesis Hybrid Smart Client Framework part III[^]) was posted 3:30AM GMT+2, it is now 10:40AM GMT+2 and it is still not visible.

I can see the Page View incrementing by one every now and again (what I can only assume is a moderator viewing the page) but the article stays in Pending state. This is really annoying and not what I expect from Code Project at all.

If something is wrong with the article that prevents the moderator from making the article public... why are they not informing me via e-mail or by adding a note to my article or something?

Pete O'Hanlon21-May-09 23:11

21-May-09 23:11

There is an Articles Needing Approval section that is visible to Gold Members, where we assess the standard of article and try to filter out the crap. Unfortunately for you, there are only 5 articles visible to view in this list - none of which is yours. This doesn't mean that your article isn't there - it just means that others have added articles after yours which need dealing with - it's a LIFO system.

What tends to happen is that there tends to be a period with the crap present because the voting process on articles isn't down to one person. Bad articles need a number of people to report the articles before a moderator removes it.

Now, I'm not saying that yours is a bad article - it's just fallen foul of other people posting after you. Please be patient, and we'll get round to it as soon as possible.

"WPF has many lovers. It's a veritable porn star!" - Josh Smith

As Braveheart once said, "You can take our freedom but you'll never take our Hobnobs!" - Martin Hughes.

Pete O'Hanlon21-May-09 23:12

21-May-09 23:12

There - I've just fixed that for you.

"WPF has many lovers. It's a veritable porn star!" - Josh Smith

As Braveheart once said, "You can take our freedom but you'll never take our Hobnobs!" - Martin Hughes.

Stephan Johnson21-May-09 23:26

Stephan Johnson

21-May-09 23:26

You guys are EXCELLENT!!! (yes, I said EXCELLENT... like Bill & Ted's adventure)

Thank you very very very very very much, its been 8 hours of agony to get my article out. Next time I'll be sure to post the article before I go to sleep instead of as I wake up (ok I'm lying if you check the article history you'll see i was updating like a banshee from 10PM yesterday till 3:30am today ... ie. no sleep for me)

however, i want to raise a concern with this site and everybody reading it... here i was typing my articles to share with the community, not sleeping like my mom says i must. Then because of your LIFO process and limited view of new articles... I caused myself tremendous stress thinking that you don't like my article! so I am hereby warning all users of Code Project NOT to become sleep deprived before you publish your work! I think I got another gray hair. Damn you Code Project!

Thanks again for getting my article through, now I wont stress so much when I do the next one in the series.

Pete O'Hanlon21-May-09 23:56

21-May-09 23:56

Stephan Johnson wrote:
I think I got another gray hair. Damn you Code Project!

Is that where I got all my gray hair? There was me blaming the wife and kids.

Stephan Johnson wrote:
Thank you very very very very very much

You're welcome - I'm glad to help.

"WPF has many lovers. It's a veritable porn star!" - Josh Smith

As Braveheart once said, "You can take our freedom but you'll never take our Hobnobs!" - Martin Hughes.