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Often when I've posted a question and am frequently refreshing the forum I never go long enough without acccessing the page to trigger an automatic marked read and find myself seeing posts I read hours ago still marked as new.
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I love Code Project articles, samples, and controls. How about a Snippet repository?
Scott H.
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I think that would just fill up with crap. Articles are good because it encourages people to tell the world what their application does. Typically, the artcle shows the snippet that is important to the example already. A snippet repository would just encourage people to dump blocks of code with no explanation. The noise to signal ratio would mean that it would quickly become useless.
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What you say is true. I like the kind of control repository Code Project maintains. The articles (generally) are educational and practical. My suggestion was to have a repository similar to the control repository. Upon reflection however, the educational aspect may quickly be exhausted. OK. I retract my suggestion.
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I don't think that there will ever be a way to stop people from posting items that don't belong in the Lounge - this is something that I can accept. What I don't like is when it turns into a 20 post thread about how it should be posted somewhere else. This wastes space, pushes down legitimate posts, and is just plain annoying.
There was an example today of how I think it should work where the poster was re-directed to the appropriate location with a single reply.
http://www.codeproject.com/lounge.asp?msg=1288929#xx1288929xx[^]
Is there any way to add a button on the the "Reply" page form that says something along the lines of "Not Appropriate for Lounge"? Clicking this button could pre-populate the reply with some stock text that has proven to be relatively effective in the past. Something like the following might work:
"This post belongs in a different forum - the Lounge is intended for discussion on non-programming related items only. You could try posting this in one of the programming forums[^].
Chris LaQuerre
eBusiness Projects Leader
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Or even better. On any Forum there woud be button "Not Appropriate for this forum"
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The C++/CLI and Visual C++ forums seem to have a lot "wrong forum" replies.
C++/CLI would seem to be suggesting generic C++ ie including the STL and the command line interface and to be less MS orientated
Visual C++ all things WIMP/MS
Why then does the forum ATL/WTL/... (overtly Microsoft) then also have STL (which is inseparable from C++?) in its name? Sure it's a template library but it seems counter intuitive to mix it with the MS stuff 
Some respondents seem to have been a bit rude about their redirection suggestions which can also seem to be wrong!
I am clearly not the only noob confused by this.
Wouldnt C++/STL/CLI make more sense?
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Jeremy Thornton wrote: C++/CLI would seem to be suggesting generic C++ ie including the STL and the command line interface and to be less MS orientated
C++/CLI is a new ECMA standard that represents a binding between ISO C++ and the Common Language Infrastructure. It's essentially the .NET enabled version of C++ available in VC++ 2005.
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Well I did wonder...
Okay then, so that helps me individually but what about other confused postees wondering where to put their stuff without causing the 'regulars' to cough up a fur ball and trial off on some unrelated thread about where a posting does/does not belong? (upto 12 nested levels of mud-slinging i've noted)
I still think the C++ forum titles are a little confusing and practically opaque to the novice.
Or are you going to tell me that if I cant figure out where put my post i'm too stupid to be on the site?
Are you aiming to facilitate or humiliate?
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I would to prefer to rename "Visual C++" to like:
General C++
C++/MFC/Win32
C++
I think the second option would be better. I think if this is going to be renamed, then there "wouldn't" be any confusion, at least not right away
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Any chances of adding a print link for printer-friendly messages? One option would be to allow all messages in a page to be printed.
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I am now going to change mobile from Sony Ericsson 610 to a LG U800.
I just love the CP-skin and want it on my new LG!!!
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Hiya all,
I'm new to this forum/site and was wondering if this is just all windows oriented.... i'm a unix guy myself and was hoping to find anything on that subject.
Is it an idea to start such a thing ?
Regards,
fr34k3r
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fr34k3r wrote: I'm new to this forum/site and was wondering if this is just all windows oriented.... i'm a unix guy myself and was hoping to find anything on that subject.
This site is focused on Microsoft technologies. I guess the furthest in to Unix you'll get is a discussion on Microsoft Services for Unix.
fr34k3r wrote: Is it an idea to start such a thing ?
I am sure there are many sites on the internet for Unix developers. None as good as this obviously. 
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How about this forum?
"Take only what you need and leave the land as you found it." - Native American Proverb
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I have noticed, that some questions appear in Visual C++ and asking how to make something in linux (General question).
If you realy want badly to get anser, then try there, but i can't garanture a succsess and you can also get a bad vote.
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 Hi,
Lot of things here belong to Microsoft Technologies like MFC,VC++,VB,C#,.Net. So,You better search a linux forum. But always we could compare both OS features and equivalent concepts like DLL and Shared Libraries.
Karthikeyan MOC
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i asked a while back if CP would be selling VS 05, and Chris replied in the affirmative.
Any news on this ? the release date is fast approaching.
Cleek | Image Toolkits | Thumbnail maker
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I would also be interested to know what versions CP is going to sell. I am interested in getting the standard version.
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We've been asking Microsoft pretty much every day for an update and the answer has been "we'll let you know". We'll definitely make a large noise about it as soon as we know. I wish I could tell you more... 
cheers,
Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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Domain Type Class TTL Answer codeproject.com. A IN 3600 209.171.52.99
Looking up at ns.dundas.com.... Reports 1 A record(s). 21ms.
Looking up at ns1.easydns.com.... Reports a server failure. 41785903ms.
Looking up at ns2.dundas.com.... Timed out.
Looking up at ns2.easydns.com.... Reports a server failure. 41785903ms.
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...and we now have a new DNS. Thanks for your help in this, Albert.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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For example, after clicking [New Message] to post this, I had to click refresh 6 times to get past "Service Unavailable" error pages
Seriously, this has reached the point where this site is now a "last resort" instead of the "first stop" when I need something. Probably not what you have envisioned as a successful business model.
Sure, it costs money to run a site like this. I think everyone understands that. However, you need to have a good balance between flashy ads and usability.
The frustrating thing is that I know there is great content here, so I keep coming back. If what I've experienced today continues, I'm afraid I'll have to look elsewhere or do without.
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Our firewall has been reporting a series of DoS attacks which combined with some network hardware failures in the hosting facility has caused us a great deal of pain.
We're doing what we can.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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