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Beyond the tag requirement, how are articles selected for the article competitions? Is there some sort of criteria used? Is it random? The reason I ask is because I submitted an article in May and another in September, and neither article was included in the respective competitions (that I can see, at least).
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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It is done by tags and by popularity (which I believe is based on votes and rating). I ran the the numbers again for the April C# competition and your WPF Wizard article is definitely on the list, but not as high as the ones that were entered into the competition.
The September competition we will be running next month.
Thanks,
Sean Ewington
CodeProject
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Well, harrumph then...
Seems to me that articles submitted late in the month (or selection timeframe) don't really have much of a chance of qualifying, but okay.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
modified 27-Sep-16 12:37pm.
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We try to start the voting at least a week past the end of the month. That first week is really where the prime traffic comes from so it gives later posted articles a better chance.
Overall I think you're right. Awesome articles posted earlier in the month have a leg up on awesome articles posted later in the month (though we very frequently get articles from early and late in the month). But I don't see a way around that.
Just took a look at your CSV article's popularity ranking. It looks very, very promising to be a contender in September ...
Thanks,
Sean Ewington
CodeProject
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Well, I was more curious that anything else. BTW, the article FAQ doesn't really explain how articles are selected for the competition (which is why this thread exists). Y'all might want to beef that up. 
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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Cool. I have some additional questions.
0) As it sits for the September competition, there are currently six articles in the C# category, and two of them don't currently have any votes (and thus, a zero popularity). Is inclusion based on the N articles with the highest popularity in a given category? If so, does that mean an article can "fall out" of the competition if popularity goes down?
1) Is the number of entries limited to a maximum value? (This would make sense given that the number of articles submitted could be overwhelming from month to month).
2) Can an author have more than one article in a given category in the same month?
I'm not often in the competition (that I know of), so I'm simply curious about how it works.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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0) I might misunderstand here. We didn't make the September competition yet?
1) Yup. No more than 10 per category. Many categories can't muster up enough entries to make it to 10 though.
2) No. They can have another article in another competition, however.
Thanks,
Sean Ewington
CodeProject
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Sean Ewington wrote: 0) I might misunderstand here. We didn't make the September competition yet?
When you click on the September C# entry under competitions, there are several articles already listed. I figured it was the heuristics kicking in.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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Those are just the latest articles with the tags associated with the competition. They aren't ranked or anything, just the latest newly posted articles (and possibly updates).
Thanks,
Sean Ewington
CodeProject
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Ahhh.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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Hi
Trying to add my RSS feed to code project, but for some reason the feed is not being picked up.
I think I have followed what Code project request. (Add Code Project as a category).
[Code snippet]
Below is a code snippet of my RSS feed on the below link
Coopsblog[Rss Feed]
modified 26-Sep-16 9:42am.
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Hmmm. The first thing I notice is that I don't believe the blog entries are long enough. They must be 1000 characters long, minimum.
Thanks,
Sean Ewington
CodeProject
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Hi
I only show the short summary not the full content within the Description.
Should the description contain the full content of a the articular?
Thanks
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The full content.
Thanks,
Sean Ewington
CodeProject
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Hi
It seemed to have worked, but there is missing code elements within the body.
I'm going to look at that later.
Tjamls
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Are the votes to a Tip/Trick not "weighted" depending on who is the voter as in Q&A or Forums or so?
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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According to this[^], the answer no...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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According to that, the answer is yes. Look at the second column for the tick against Tip/Trick is downvoted and Tip/Trick is upvoted. It even says that the vote is weighted in the text.
This space for rent
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I understood it the other way around - I should have to wake up before reading it probably...
The points to the author weighted, the points to the voter not...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter wrote: The points to the author weighted, the points to the voter not...
That's what I supposed
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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... on this: IIFE – Immediately Invoked Function Expressions[^]
I would like to explain the autor to work on the formating, but no place to comment...
[EDIT]
Got fixed and approved...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
modified 24-Sep-16 15:07pm.
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My answer to this question: http://www.codeproject.com/Questions/1131514/Get-debit-credit-and-balance-in-datagridview-Cshar[^] contains SQL2012+ code:
SELECT ID, ITEMS_REF_NO, CR, DR,
SUM(CR - DR) OVER(ORDER BY ID
ROWS BETWEEN UNBOUNDED PRECEDING AND CURRENT ROW)
AS BAL
FROM MyTable2
The same query in SSMS has additional highlighting for ROWS, UNBOUNDED PRECEDING, and the full CURRENT ROW
Be nice if the syntax highlighter added that as well.
Loooooow priority though - it doesn't affect anything in any significant way!
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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The MSDN docs don't include UNBOUNDED PRECEDING, but ROW and ROWS are "Future reserved". It also looks like Microsoft hasn't updated (or published) a list of SQL 2014 or 2016 reserved words. All I can find is 2012.
I love standards. 
cheers
Chris Maunder
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From what I'm seeing it seems that it's a very rare situation that an article/tip does not pass moderation even if it has formatting problems, is incomplete etc. Very often a message is left to the pending article along with several reports but they still get through.
Does the moderation mechanism serve it's purpose, meaning, is it needed anymore after all?
Of course there are always the spammy wannabe articles but what if suspicious articles (containing links somewhere else than MSDN or other 'respected' sites?) would still have a moderation queue...
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