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Solution - don't visit CodeProject when you're using a Kindle Fire.
".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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"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997
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Sir, no sir! Not using Kindle Fire and not visiting Code Project are not options. Nots to you. 
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We'll be getting a Kindle in the office for testing as soon as they are available in Canadia. Until then, welcome to the world of Android fragmentation.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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Nice! I'm curious, is this a company purchase, employee purchase, or are you able to get a free one from Amazon for testing purposes? Also, do you purchase all the popular mobile devices as they come out?
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Usually we hang out and dumpster dive looking for devices that users have returned because they can't find the on button or stylus. We've also experimented with pan-handling "Sir - could you spare some change for a [insert gadget]? OK sir, have a nice day", and in rare cases Sean breaks out the mankini and then comes back with 3 or 4. Occasionally the pan-handling backfires when people get nasty and curse, spit, or try and offload Blackberry Playbooks onto us. It's Christmas! Why so black-hearted?
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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LOL! I'll take that as a no comment. You may want to replace Sean with Jean for better pitching.
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Maybe I could accompany you on your next outing, and I could "compel" people to donate.
".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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"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997
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I don't want to have to wipe down any devices I review.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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The node arrows towards the end of a post thread don't appear right for those last few message threads in the Kindle Fire.
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See above.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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It seems that broken zip file links are not handled properly. When I am downloading some zip files, i was getting 0 byte files.
On checking further, if I type an invalid zip file link[^], it was getting a blank page.
"Never put off until run time what you can do at compile time."
- David Gries, in "Compiler Construction for Digital Computers", circa 1969.
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I've just tried downloading some files and it's all working for me.
Can you please send me a link to a specific article that's showing problems? Which browser are you using, and do you have any anti-virus, anti-malware or ad blockers installed?
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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In Q&A it seems that it's not mandatory to define a tag for the question, but when the question is edited the tag is mandatory. Shouldn't it be mandatory also when the question is created. One example was: Event time on Google analytic[^]
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Ah, an excuse to ... once again ... raise my feeble voice ... to proclaim the glorious role of mandatory tags for question creators in massive cobweb removal in QA 
Thanks for the excuse, Mika.
best, Bill
"For no man lives in the external truth among salts and acids, but in the warm, phantasmagoric chamber of his brain, with the painted windows and the storied wall." Robert Louis Stevenson
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We have a filter in place to check that you include a tag when posting. However, there is an issue in that if you enter a non-existent tag and don't have the rights to create tags then no tag will be added to the question.
A bug.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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When I submit an article, I use the four step article wizard. I tend to write my article in another editor (Visual Studio or Notepad) in html. Then in step 3 where you get to the editor, I switch the editor to raw html (with the "<>"), and then copy and paste my html into the editor.
Problem is that the editor then throws away or mangles all line breaks. This is a big problem, because it messes up all the code inside <pre...> tags. I then have to format my code again inside the editor to make the code (inside the <pre...> tags) look right - which is a big pain.
I use Google Chrome.
Looks to me like this is a definite bug.
Is there any way to copy and paste article html into the editor without losing your line breaks?
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Matt Perdeck wrote: Is there any way to copy and paste article html into the editor without losing your line breaks?
This may work as a temporary workaround until they fix the editor...
Some editors/browsers use \r\n (carriage return, line feed) for the line ending, and others use \n (line feed) for the line ending. I suspect this is why you are running into issues. You might want to try copying the text when it has the various types of line endings. I use a custom regex tool when I want to change line endings, but I'm sure you can figure out your own way (probably some text editor has a function to change line endings).
Somebody in an online forum wrote: INTJs never really joke. They make a point. The joke is just a gift wrapper.
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Can you please post a sample of the code that's getting messed up?
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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Hi Chris,
I reproduced the problem - detailed steps below this email.
I created a test article with basename
testarticle1
(should still be in the codeproject database). The text of that article is below the steps to reproduce.
While reproducing the problem, I took screenshots. Would be happy to send those to you.
While accessing codeproject.com, used Chrome under Windows 7. Had the same problem with Chrome under Windows Server 2003.
Matt
Ps.: Regarding the message editor on the code project forum page (where I'm posting this message) - when you use html tags in your message, they don't appear in the preview, or get interpreted as html in the preview (as expected). But if you then check the "Treat my content as plain text, not as HTML" checkbox below the preview, that doesn't change the preview - it continues to treat your content as HTML. I'm under the impression this is a bug in at least the previewer.
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Steps to reproduce
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I've got an article in my blog, which is powered by BlogEngine. It is hosted on a Windows server (using IIS 7).
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In BlogEngine, started editor on the article, switched to Raw Html view.
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Started Notepad. Copied the HTML from BlogEngine to Notepad.
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Opened codeproject.com. Logged in. Started article submission wizard.
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Filled out form on first page.
Basename
testarticle1
Article Title
Test Article 1
One Line Description
Test Article 1 Description
Didn't upload images on second page.
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On third page (with the code project editor), checked "Work in Progress - do not make public". Then clicked <> on the editor to switch editor to HTML mode.
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Highlighted the prefilled text (control-A) and deleted it (Delete button).
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Highlighted all text in Notepad (control-A) and copy and pasted it to the code project editor (control-C, control-V).
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Clicked the Preview button. New browser window opened with the preview. This showed that the newlines within the article had been removed, including the ones within the pre tag.
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Went back to the browser window with the code project editor. Clicked <> to switch off HTML mode, then clicked <> again to switch on HTML again. Saw in the editor that the newlines had been removed.
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Text of the test article
Gather Detailed Locking Information
You can find out which queries are involved in excessive locking delays by tracing the event "Blocked process report" in SQL Server Profiler.
This event fires when the lock wait time for a query exceeds the "blocked process threshold". To set this threshold to for example 30 seconds, run the following lines in a query window in SSMS:
EXEC sp_configure 'show advanced options', 1
RECONFIGURE
EXEC sp_configure 'blocked process threshold', 30
RECONFIGURE
Then start the trace in Profiler:
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I copy and pasted:
<h2>Gather Detailed Locking Information</h2>
<p>You can find out which queries are involved in excessive locking delays by tracing the event "Blocked process report" in SQL Server Profiler.</p>
<p>This event fires when the lock wait time for a query exceeds the "blocked process threshold". To set this threshold to for example 30 seconds, run the following lines in a query window in SSMS:</p>
<pre lang="sql">EXEC sp_configure 'show advanced options', 1
RECONFIGURE
EXEC sp_configure 'blocked process threshold', 30
RECONFIGURE</pre>
<p>Then start the trace in Profiler:</p>
into the article editor (in chrome) and flipped back and forth between HTML and design mode and could not get it to misbehave. Maybe you are copying CR, not CR/LF terminated text from Notepad?
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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What do you write your article content with? I use Visual Studio and don't have any problems copy/pasting into the wizard.
You can also click the checkbox that says something along the lines of "Don't mess with the HTML, I know what I'm doing. If you don't check that, sometimes the code is reformatted and tags are changed.
".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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"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997
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Hi,
Just tried to vote on a post in the C# forum and where the vote count normally appears it changed to
"Failed!Unknown" in bold red.
Retried voting after an F5 and worked OK.
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You hit one of the servers while it was cycling.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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Please make sure they always use one of these[^] then.
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