Bugs and Suggestions

Chris Maunder29-Nov-11 1:27

29-Nov-11 1:27

We already have the ability to insert .xap files hosted elsewhere into your articles - we just don't yet provide the option to upload .xap files onto our servers due to security concerns. Those concerns may quite well be moot - further investigation is needed.

cheers,
Chris Maunder

The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP

Yvan Rodrigues29-Nov-11 3:20

Yvan Rodrigues

29-Nov-11 3:20

Yeah, I can't really speak to the security concern; although the reason I asked is that it takes extra configuration to host Silverlight in a cross-domain setup, and may in fact be a greater security threat to end-users.

Also, I don't mind the extra bandwidth on my site, but the likelihood that I remove it from my site in a year without thinking about the consequences is a real one. D'Oh! | :doh:

Yvan Rodrigues
Red Cell Innovation Inc.

Yvan Rodrigues5-Dec-11 16:15

Yvan Rodrigues

5-Dec-11 16:15

Oh, and .svg would be a nice file type to allow too.

Yvan Rodrigues
Red Cell Innovation Inc.

Chris Maunder6-Dec-11 2:28

I am not receiving newsletters

6-Dec-11 2:28

Unfortunately SVG has a little too much leeway for causing damage Wink | ;)

cheers,
Chris Maunder

The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP

Bamidele_Adetifa28-Nov-11 6:03

Bamidele_Adetifa

28-Nov-11 6:03

since I switched companies and changed my emails address, I have not been getting newsletters. Does anyone know a reason for this?

Re: I am not receiving newsletters

Chris Maunder28-Nov-11 6:30

Re: I am not receiving newsletters

28-Nov-11 6:30

When you switched email addresses an email would have been sent asking you to confirm you own the email address. Click the link and your email is confirmed and we start sending emails. You should also be seeing a notice at the top of all forums alerting you to the fact that your email is unconfirmed.

We do this to ensure someone can't take over someone else's email address and to ensure we aren't spamming someone who doesn't want to hear from us.

I've resent a confirmation email.

cheers,
Chris Maunder

The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP

Bamidele_Adetifa28-Nov-11 6:34

Bamidele_Adetifa

28-Nov-11 6:34

I must have missed the email and I was unaware of the alerts but I have confirmed my email address now. thanks so much

Please delete my account

Kaixi Luo28-Nov-11 4:19

Kaixi Luo

28-Nov-11 4:19

I haven't used my account for years. Please delete it. Thanks.

Re: Please delete my account

Slacker00728-Nov-11 6:48

Slacker007

28-Nov-11 6:48

deleted.

Just along for the ride.

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Issues Adding Blog Feed

Lee P Richardson28-Nov-11 4:03

28-Nov-11 4:03

I'm having the following issues adding my blog feed to The Code Project:

1. Bullet points 1 and 2 on http://www.codeproject.com/script/Articles/BlogFeed.aspx[^] are confusing. What category, child, or item elements do these refer to? Can you please provide an example? Is it really necessary? I looked at some blogs that appear to have been successfully set up and they don't appear to contain these elements.

2. I can't tell how to test that I've set it up correctly. If I click "manage my blog" on the page referenced above I see three icons in Google Chrome. The first is "Download Now" which seems like it should be a good test. However when I click it nothing happens. If I view the page in IE none of the icons show up at all. But I'm not even sure if this would be a good test because maybe the engine only downloads *new* articles?

Any help would be much appreciated. p.s. The blog I'm trying to set up is http://www.codeproject.com/script/Articles/BlogFeedList.aspx?amid=3215[^] aka http://rapidapplicationdevelopment.blogspot.com/[^]. Thanks for any help.

Chris Maunder28-Nov-11 7:11

28-Nov-11 7:11

If you are able to modify your RSS feed then the first two points are pointers to which elements you should add the CodeProject tag. I'm guessing you don't have access to your RSS feed setup so the last point, using microformats, is the most applicable

Quote:
All you need to do is place an anchor tag somewhere in your blog article's content. E.g.:
<a href="http://www.codeproject.com" rel="tag">CodeProject</a>
If you don't want this link visible just use a style to hide it (e.g. style="display:none") – we'll still pick it up.

Just throw this in anywhere in the article you wish to have consumed and we'll find it.

I'll look into the issues of the refresh icon not doing anything useful for you.

cheers,
Chris Maunder

The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP

Lee P Richardson28-Nov-11 14:25

28-Nov-11 14:25

Thanks for the explanation. You're right, I don't have control over my RSS feed, so I've done the micro format option. As far as I can tell I've done it correctly, but it's not picking up any of my articles. The page (http://www.codeproject.com/script/Articles/BlogFeedList.aspx?amid=4645031[^]) says it polls once per hour, so as far as I can tell it should have picked up articles by now. Can you recommend any other troubleshooting techniques?

Thanks,
Lee

Lee P Richardson29-Nov-11 8:06

29-Nov-11 8:06

Chris,

I've posted a new blog entry and confirmed that the RSS contains this link. But it still isn't getting picked up. How often does the polling actually happen? Is it truly once per hour? Can you suggest any other debugging techniques?

Thanks,
Lee

Chris Maunder29-Nov-11 16:05

29-Nov-11 16:05

Got it. Should be good from now on.

cheers,
Chris Maunder

The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP

Lee P Richardson29-Nov-11 16:08

An intermittent (?) and very specific bug in the CP editor in QA

29-Nov-11 16:08

Yayyy, thank you!

BillWoodruff27-Nov-11 16:20

BillWoodruff

27-Nov-11 16:20

Today I was giving an alternate way, on QA, to set the BackColor of an MDI Form: in a Code block the line using the word "MdiClient" within <> delimiters was consistently changed to "mdiclient," and a strange extra closing tag </mdiclient> was added.

This was a straight paste of working code from Visual Studio.

The fix was to go into the code between pre tags and use the &..; formats for the <> delimiters around "MdiClient."

Let's see if I can reproduce it here:

private void Form1_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
    this.Controls.OfType<MdiClient>().First().BackColor = Color.Red;
}

Hah ! Now, of course, I cannot reproduce it.

Considering it possible I made a mistake and somehow selected an option that was not "Code" after pasting, I reviewed the results of all other format-after-paste options: none of them would give anything near what was reproduced when this intermittent thing was happening.

Oh well, cosmic-ray ?

"Anyone who shows me my 'blind spots' gives me the gift of sight." ... a thought from the shallows of the deeply shallow mind of ... Bill

modified 27-Nov-11 22:32pm.

Chris Maunder27-Nov-11 16:35

27-Nov-11 16:35

< is, as you know, a marker meaning "start a HTML tag". So, <MdiClient> will be treated as the HTML tag "MdiClient", and since you didn't close this tag, the editor will go ahead and close it for you: </MdiClient>. Changing it to lower case is done by the editor when it reformats the HTML - all tags are set as lowercase.

Next time when you paste something, just choose "Text + Encoded HTML" (or check out the preview box in the paste dialog straight after you paste, and you can see the result.

cheers,
Chris Maunder

The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP

thatraja27-Nov-11 16:59

thatraja

27-Nov-11 16:59

Chris, this is the 3rd post about this issue. Previous posts
List<t>...</t> editor problem[^]
Additional unwanted tags at end of the code[^]

To reduce this kind of re-posts you may show a sticky thread(collection of fixed solutions) Or update the old sticky thread(which is invisible) at top.

thatraja

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Chris Maunder27-Nov-11 17:08

27-Nov-11 17:08

No one is going to read a sticky post in the bugs board before posting an article or message, and only a small number will read the post before posting a bug report.

The only thing to do is either make the problem go away, or make it so that it's obvious that something's going weird (or could go weird) at the time of posting.

1. We could switch to Markdown and ditch HTML support (or support a limited set)
2. We could have the HTML parsers test every tag they find against the known set of valid HTML tags and escape the <'s around unknown ones. Possible, but it slows things down nicely
3. Have the auto-preview do something like highlight in yellow tags that seem "odd" (how we determine "odd" can be done in a variety of ways).

(2) is probably the best idea for all forums that don't actually expect HTML tags in text. ie any web-focused forum will have the same issue.

(1) is a very neat solution but means none of the formatting we're all enjoying such as divs and tables.

There's always (4) which is:

4. Implement Markdown and set it as the default format method, but allow members to move to HTML if they wish.

cheers,
Chris Maunder

The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP

BillWoodruff27-Nov-11 23:27

BillWoodruff

27-Nov-11 23:27

This is not a major "bitch" Smile | :)

In this case I pasted an example of working code copied direct from the Visual Studio Pro editor into the solution, and clicked 'Code' from the pop-up format menu.

That this was mis-translated, a keyword was changed to lower-case, and a strange closing tag added: means there is a bug in the editor.

That this behavior is nor repeatable, regularly, means there is some intermittent bug in the CP parser/formatter.

I have seen other intermittent bugs where, either pasting in plain text with no code, no delimiters, the pasted text is suddenly bracketed in <pre> tags, or where pasting in content ... as code ... containing complex nested generic definitions which have multiple angle brackets, the entire contents of the post past the start of the generic delimiters angle brackets is deleted.

I am very familiar with the CP editor now, and it has intermittent variances in behavior which are ... well ... that's software Smile | :)

Of course, anytime I can reliably replicate a buggy behavior, I will report it here, as I have done several times in the past.

I am now expert in fixing code translated by the CP editor to substitute ampersands-followed-by-acronyms-for-angle-brackets-followed-by-a-semicolon, for where angle brackets should be in plain text, and the reverse in code: unfortunately, I'm not sure that skill makes me any more employable Smile | :)

best, Bill

p.s. I was "infamous" at Adobe in the QA division for continuing to find bugs in PhotoShop and Illustrator (I was on the programming side of things there) with every release candidate after they had been pounded for hours, and signed off on by QA. I sent them a photograph of myself, and a box of red-tipped push-pins, and suggested they enjoy sticking a pin in my photo for each bug I found they had missed Smile | :)

Of course I had, previously, sacrificed a black chicken to Papa Legba to protect my physical body from harm.

"Anyone who shows me my 'blind spots' gives me the gift of sight." ... a thought from the shallows of the deeply shallow mind of ... Bill

Chris Maunder28-Nov-11 5:41