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One of our Search Servers decided to look for answers under the bed instead of on the site. It should be good in a few minutes.
Matthew
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[ADDED] Message is wrong, the facts have evolved, all is well now; please move on. [/ADDED]
There is another victim of the multiple searchboxes approach.
you have one search facility that works very well, yet you confuse people by also offering lesser tools. I recommend you remove all but the search box in the CP title band. That would include the "search articles" on the home page, the tiny search box on all the forums, etc.
If you insist on leaving other search facilities, please make them just call the new, very good, great search page, possibly with options preset to something fitting the widget/button that was clicked on the calling page. But please stop executing a different, old, and less-than-good search engine as you do have a good one. More consistency, less code to maintain, happier users.
Luc Pattyn [My Articles] Nil Volentibus Arduum
The quality and detail of your question reflects on the effectiveness of the help you are likely to get. Please use <PRE> tags for code snippets, they improve readability. CP Vanity has been updated to V2.3 modified on Wednesday, June 1, 2011 8:13 PM
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Luc Pattyn wrote: There is another victim of the multiple searchboxes approach.
Nope. 
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Indeed, they have redirected the secundary search tools to the primary one now. Which is good.
If they now would remember some of the settings, mainly "sort by date created desc", that would be good.
ADDED
Makes me now wonder why Matthew asked "Could you describe the steps you took..."
/ADDED
Luc Pattyn [My Articles] Nil Volentibus Arduum
The quality and detail of your question reflects on the effectiveness of the help you are likely to get. Please use <PRE> tags for code snippets, they improve readability. CP Vanity has been updated to V2.3 modified on Wednesday, June 1, 2011 1:02 PM
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You can use the Saved Queries to capture the current search and all its setting. You can save up to 10 searches. For example, I have a query to list all of Chris's forum message post, sorted by date created, descending. This lets me keep track of what he is promising everybody.
So, just do the query you want, enter a name for the query, and click the save button. This will add the query to you saved query list. Just click on it to re-execute.
Matthew
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"Promised" is too strong a word. I prefer "brow beaten into offering".
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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Shouldn't you be coding right now? *whoopa!*
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Well, I am firmly into a bottle of Jim Barry Lodge Hill Shiraz...
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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I look forward to reporting the bugs you are writing.
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Features. Undocumented features, if you must.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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I understand that, I did experiment with it a bit when it surfaced, but then there were some problems at that time (I'm pretty sure they got fixed), and it still requires extra clicks to get there. Having the saved queries horizontally, as a line of buttons above the textbox would be better IMO. But I would settle for a user selectable default query, which you would use in whatever way the search page gets called (unless URL parameters tell otherwise of course).
Luc Pattyn [My Articles] Nil Volentibus Arduum
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They all call the new search page, at least they are supposed to. If I've missed one, let me know.
Matthew
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Yes, I think you're right, AspDotNetDev already told me so. I actually stopped using all widgets/buttons/editboxes relating to search on various CP pages, I created my own browser favorites button that brings up the search page with order=createddesc as that is what I need 90% of the time. (I wish the search page would just remember that setting!).
Luc Pattyn [My Articles] Nil Volentibus Arduum
The quality and detail of your question reflects on the effectiveness of the help you are likely to get. Please use <PRE> tags for code snippets, they improve readability. CP Vanity has been updated to V2.3
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I was unable to add multiple synonyms to the "Access" tag by using commas - as the instructions state that I can.
The instructions say: "Use commas to separate multiple synonyms"
However, when I did that it did not work and I received the following label message in red: "Please enter just one at a time." --> this works.
-- Thanks.
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** You don't hire a handyman to build a house, you hire a carpenter.
** Jack of all trades and master of none.
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How about code hosting within CodeProject instead of going out and using codeplex, github etc...
Its the man, not the machine - Chuck Yeager
If at first you don't succeed... get a better publicist
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On CodeProject, we call code hosting "Articles".
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you want more code dumps? 
Luc Pattyn [My Articles] Nil Volentibus Arduum
The quality and detail of your question reflects on the effectiveness of the help you are likely to get. Please use <PRE> tags for code snippets, they improve readability. CP Vanity has been updated to V2.3
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Ha ha, nice one...
I meant "source control hosting".
Its the man, not the machine - Chuck Yeager
If at first you don't succeed... get a better publicist
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Doesn't that dilute the whole purpose of Code Project? More importantly, this would place one heck of an infrastructure strain on Code Project and, as there are several good alternatives out there, what benefit would it bring?
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It would be a one stop shop.
Obviously I can't comment on the infrastructure changes required... just a suggestion for extra business and for consideration.
Its the man, not the machine - Chuck Yeager
If at first you don't succeed... get a better publicist
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Mehdi Gholam wrote: just a suggestion for extra business
It would only be business if they could charge for it.
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They could, and there is always advertising.
Its the man, not the machine - Chuck Yeager
If at first you don't succeed... get a better publicist
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I registered my blog with CP and I'm pleased to see my blog entries appear on CodeProject!
However there is a problem.
While CP automatically detect code blocks, it leave them with ugly formatting!
See, my original blog post:
http://galador.net/codeblog/post/2011/05/14/Introducing-DirectX-to-WPF.aspx[^]
And the CodeProject version
http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/200908/Introducing-DirectX-to-WPF.aspx[^]
(Scroll down to the 1st code block)
there are plenty of "span" and "style" tag.
[EDIT]
I'm fixing most of the problem manually right now. But I'll leave some in the first code block, so you can have an idea what's going on!
Could they be automatically removed?
Or could we get a notification when the blog are copied?
Doesn't seems to happen very often...
A train station is where the train stops. A bus station is where the bus stops. On my desk, I have a work station....
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My programs never have bugs, they just develop random features.
modified on Wednesday, June 1, 2011 3:29 AM
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One of the editors recently updated my article and I noticed that on the homepage the description of the article shows as "StringBuilderP...". The full description is "StringBuilderPlus facilitates prefixing and suffixing strings and StringBuilderPluses in an efficient manner." I'm not sure why that entire description isn't showing up, considering there is another description on the homepage right now that says ".NET allows binding to an event with a method that has a different signature than that of the published delegate, as long as the return type and..." (significantly longer than my article's description).
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It's because our ellipsisificationising (you spelled it wrong - it's "s", not "z", here in Canadia) code tries to ensure that text will not extend past a point and break the UI. If only text-overflow:ellipsis was part of the CSS2 standard  What it does is build a string to display and chop off whole words if they don't fit, but if the first word is exceptionally long then it trims that. Since it's hard to say "X characters will be Y pixels wide" it guesses and the results are usually a little average.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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