Article Writing

Sean Ewington27-Sep-23 5:24

27-Sep-23 5:24

As I was about to fix the images, I saw the article content. Would you be willing to make some changes to the post? CodeProject is more about code sharing rather than tool sharing. So we would ask you to make some changes to the article to discuss more how the tool works (showing and describing examples of that code) rather than telling us what it does or simply how to use it.

CodeProject articles have a certain layout to follow, so that users can learn the most from them. Each article attempts to answer the following questions: What problem does this solution solve? How does this help someone else? How does the code actually work? What is going on inside the code snippets?

Here is a submission from a first time author who did a terrific job, just to give you a basic overview of what a beginner article might looks like:
Avoiding InvokeRequired[^]

For tips on writing articles, please see this article:
A Guide To Writing Articles For Code Project[^]

Please let me know if you have further questions.

Thanks,
Sean Ewington
CodeProject

Andreas Saurwein27-Sep-23 5:48

Andreas Saurwein

27-Sep-23 5:48

Sure can work on it. I did some explaining of certain issues in the Point Of Interest chapter, but I can of course add some more info to it. Not my first ride on codeproject, but this article is really more about the tool than the code behind it.

cheers
Andreas

forging iron and new ideas

Andreas Saurwein27-Sep-23 6:43

Andreas Saurwein

27-Sep-23 6:43

Updated with quite some more insights on how-to's and code samples. Think its ok now?

forging iron and new ideas

Sean Ewington27-Sep-23 9:49

Thumbnail image is not visible on the site home page

27-Sep-23 9:49

Excellent. Thank you kindly. Could you please email me the images (sean@codeproject.com)? I'll get them sorted out.

Thanks,
Sean Ewington
CodeProject

Member 420181321-Sep-23 12:28

Member 4201813

21-Sep-23 12:28

Dear CodeProject editors,

I've added a thumbnail image to this article: Reverse-engineering Linear PRNG with Exploratory Seeding[^] today but it is not visible on the site home page. The added image is present in the "Source Code & Images" when I reopen article in the editor but not in the "Article Thumbnail" section.

I've also noticed that the article information shown on the site home page also contains an outdated set of tags which has also been fixed today.

Thank you in advance for some assistance.

Re: Thumbnail image is not visible on the site home page

Sean Ewington22-Sep-23 5:53

Re: Thumbnail image is not visible on the site home page

22-Sep-23 5:53

Thanks very much for your message. I've updated the article with your thumbnail. Please let me know if all is well.

Thanks,
Sean Ewington
CodeProject

Member 420181322-Sep-23 7:10

Member 4201813

22-Sep-23 7:10

Thank you very much, Sean!

Looks great now.

Article posting

Tasos Kipriotis7-Sep-23 4:47

7-Sep-23 4:47

Hi, all
I have a problem in publishing an article.
Last Thursday, August 31, I submitted an article for publishing. After pressing the submit button the article showed up and everything seemed OK. But the article did not appear in the list of articles yet.
When going to My Articles it shows there as Article 5365607. But when I click on it I get a black box with the message

Quote:
Ticket:
Error: An error occurred in this page. The error has been recorded and the site administrator informed.
Abort, Retry, Fail?_

in it.
Can someopne help, please?

Sean Ewington7-Sep-23 5:45

7-Sep-23 5:45

Unfortunately the article is unrecoverable. I suspect it may have been closed by the community, but since I cannot see the article, I cannot surmise why. Do you happen to have a local copy of it? If you could please email it to me (sean@codeproject.com) I'll investigate and restore if appropriate.

Thanks,
Sean Ewington
CodeProject

Tasos Kipriotis7-Sep-23 6:02

7-Sep-23 6:02

Hi, Sean
I have a copy of the text and, of course the attachment. I can rewrite it if it is easier. In that case, must I change the title?
Thanks,
Tasos Kipriotis

Sean Ewington7-Sep-23 6:08

7-Sep-23 6:08

If indeed the article was closed by the community, it would be better if I could see the article to guide a potential re-write, or title change.

Thanks,
Sean Ewington
CodeProject

Tasos Kipriotis11-Sep-23 7:18

11-Sep-23 7:18

Hi, Sean
Any news?

Sean Ewington11-Sep-23 7:31

11-Sep-23 7:31

Apologies it seems it went to the Junk folder.

Currently you've written the article coming at your subject explaining, "attached is what I have done, and here are some explanations of what I did and why I made some decisions."

I suggest a different approach for the article. Walk them through everything you did. Show the your readers the math. We have LaTeX capability, and we can show the formulas in images if that is too painful (I recommend images). Explain the math. Show your code. Explain your code. Treat your article like a classroom of students of varying levels or understanding. How are you going to explain it so that the majority of them understand?

As an example, here’s an article from one of our top authors:
HTML5 WebWorkers Experiment[^]

His primary goal is to demonstrate “Using HTML5 WebWorkers and a custom jQuery plug-in to create a Flickr image wall.” He treats the reader like a beginner. He defines jQuery, explains what WebWorkers are, then gets into why he wanted to create a jQuery plugin. Each progressive section of the article expands on his topic, thoroughly explains the code, explains the limitations he chose in his scope, discusses how each element to his plug-in works, provides numerous code examples, and most importantly, gives a source code download at the top for the reader should they need it.

Every time the community considers whether or not to approve an article, this is the style of article they have in mind. They love it, they want it, and they praise the authors enormously when they get it (and we want authors to feel like their hard work is appreciated).

Thanks,
Sean Ewington
CodeProject

Tasos Kipriotis12-Sep-23 7:22

12-Sep-23 7:22

Thanks for your reply, Sean.
One more question, what are the limits (words, code snippets, etc) for an article?
Thanks,
Tasos Kipriotis

Sean Ewington12-Sep-23 7:26

A question about something for an article

12-Sep-23 7:26

We have no official word limit, the article can be as long as you want.

There's probably a technical word limit, but no one has ever hit it to my knowledge.

Thanks,
Sean Ewington
CodeProject

Pete O'Hanlon18-Aug-23 4:24

Pete O'Hanlon

18-Aug-23 4:24

Greetings Sean, Chris, and all the other hamstermeisters. I'm busy writing a series of articles for a tool that I've been writing. The articles are going to cover such things as using AWS, Terraform, Minimal APIs, and so much more. The idea is, by the end of the articles, we will have a working Service Virtualization tool that people can use to mock up responses to REST type queries.

So, the questions I have.
1. I've been writing the article in Markdown; you are okay with that aren't you? I seem to remember we could load articles like this.
2. I want to demonstrate how we can create libraries of APIs. Are you okay with me "ripping" the Code Project APIs to show how we could create mock results for these?

I'm happy to talk if you need more details. Your ever hamster-slave, Pete.

Advanced TypeScript Programming Projects

Re: A question about something for an article

Sean Ewington18-Aug-23 5:49

After upgrading to 2.1.10 CPAI no longer works - missing AI\modulesettings.json

18-Aug-23 5:49

1. I remember seeing this too. I haven't actually done it yet myself, but whatever format you decide on I can help you make it look great.

2. Please proceed. Let us know if you need anything. We look forward to the series!

Thanks,
Sean Ewington
CodeProject

Member 160655685-Aug-23 17:15

Member 16065568

5-Aug-23 17:15

Hello - I recently updated to a newer version of CodeProject AI and now i cannot get the service to run.

Windows event viewer is throwing up the following error -

Application: CodeProject.AI.Server.exe
CoreCLR Version: 7.0.523.17405
.NET Version: 7.0.5
Description: The process was terminated due to an unhandled exception.
Exception Info: System.IO.InvalidDataException: Failed to load configuration from file 'C:\ProgramData\CodeProject\AI\modulesettings.json'.
 ---> System.FormatException: Could not parse the JSON file.
 ---> System.Text.Json.JsonReaderException: '0x00' is an invalid start of a value. LineNumber: 0 | BytePositionInLine: 0.
   at System.Text.Json.ThrowHelper.ThrowJsonReaderException(Utf8JsonReader& json, ExceptionResource resource, Byte nextByte, ReadOnlySpan`1 bytes)
   at System.Text.Json.Utf8JsonReader.ConsumeValue(Byte marker)
   at System.Text.Json.Utf8JsonReader.ReadFirstToken(Byte first)
   at System.Text.Json.Utf8JsonReader.ReadSingleSegment()
   at System.Text.Json.Utf8JsonReader.Read()
   at System.Text.Json.JsonDocument.Parse(ReadOnlySpan`1 utf8JsonSpan, JsonReaderOptions readerOptions, MetadataDb& database, StackRowStack& stack)
   at System.Text.Json.JsonDocument.Parse(ReadOnlyMemory`1 utf8Json, JsonReaderOptions readerOptions, Byte[] extraRentedArrayPoolBytes, PooledByteBufferWriter extraPooledByteBufferWriter)
   at System.Text.Json.JsonDocument.Parse(ReadOnlyMemory`1 json, JsonDocumentOptions options)
   at System.Text.Json.JsonDocument.Parse(String json, JsonDocumentOptions options)
   at Microsoft.Extensions.Configuration.Json.JsonConfigurationFileParser.ParseStream(Stream input)
   at Microsoft.Extensions.Configuration.Json.JsonConfigurationProvider.Load(Stream stream)
   --- End of inner exception stack trace ---
   at Microsoft.Extensions.Configuration.Json.JsonConfigurationProvider.Load(Stream stream)
   at Microsoft.Extensions.Configuration.FileConfigurationProvider.Load(Boolean reload)
   --- End of inner exception stack trace ---
   at Microsoft.Extensions.Configuration.FileConfigurationProvider.Load(Boolean reload)
   at Microsoft.Extensions.Configuration.ConfigurationRoot..ctor(IList`1 providers)
   at Microsoft.Extensions.Configuration.ConfigurationBuilder.Build()
   at Microsoft.Extensions.Hosting.HostBuilder.InitializeAppConfiguration()
   at Microsoft.Extensions.Hosting.HostBuilder.Build()
   at CodeProject.AI.API.Server.Frontend.Program.Main(String[] args)

I've validated that the

AI\modulesettings.json

file does not exist and I think that is what is causing the issue and no matter what I do I cannot get it to work. Ive uninstalled and reinstalled this 5 times without any luck. I'm hoping someone can tell me what I can do to get past this file so I can start the server. Every time I start the service it throws that error I pasted above. I'm kind of dead in the water.

Re: After upgrading to 2.1.10 CPAI no longer works - missing AI\modulesettings.json

Richard MacCutchan5-Aug-23 21:11

Richard MacCutchan

5-Aug-23 21:11

This is the Article Writing forum; please post your question in the CodeProject.AI Discussions[^] forum.

Images problem 4

Evgenii Zaiats14-Jul-23 18:27

Evgenii Zaiats

14-Jul-23 18:27

Hi, images are not showing here - Creating an AWS Lambda Powered Telegram Bot[^]
Although I see them from the Editor and under some revisions, they are not visible in anonymous mode =/

Re: Images problem 4

Sean Ewington16-Jul-23 3:45

16-Jul-23 3:45

Currently they are visible for me, are they for you?

Also, what do you mean by anonymous mode?

Thanks,
Sean Ewington
CodeProject

Re: Images problem 4

Evgenii Zaiats16-Jul-23 3:56

Evgenii Zaiats

16-Jul-23 3:56

Yes, they are now, Deeksha Shenoy fixed it for me. I meant anonymous mode in browser, I used it to check how the article looks like for non registered users.

Images problem 3

Mark Pelf 9-Jul-23 23:48

Mark Pelf

9-Jul-23 23:48

Again, the images in my article are not good.
Git – Problem with “skip-worktree” and Pull[^]
I do not know why is that happening all the time. In the preview all look good, even when I go to edit that article, the preview shows all pictures.
The thumbnail also needs to be set.

Re: Images problem 3

Sean Ewington10-Jul-23 4:23