Bugs and Suggestions

Edit a closed / reported question

26-Mar-15 10:31

Please report these in Spam and Abuse[^]

We watch that forum too.

cheers
Chris Maunder

Tom Deketelaere25-Mar-15 10:02

Re: Edit a closed / reported question

25-Mar-15 10:02

I can still 'improve' a question, even after it has been closed / reported as spam.

Nothing wrong happens but seems a bit un-needed.

(in this case where I attempted it, it was actually benificial but that is very rare I think)

Tom

SoMad25-Mar-15 13:59

SoMad

25-Mar-15 13:59

I once did something similar to a forum post:
I posted a message -> someone replied to my post -> I deleted my post -> I modified my post.

I don't think my edited content actually became visible, because the post was still showing "deleted", but it was weird.

Soren Madsen

"When you don't know what you're doing it's best to do it quickly" - Jase #DuckDynasty

Spell Checker

Arkadeep De25-Mar-15 7:46

Arkadeep De

25-Mar-15 7:46

Whenever any one is submitting any articles or tips the editor does not show any spelling mistake errors or grammatical errors. Grammatical errors are okay but I think there should be a spell checker in the editor.

Arkadeep De
ASP With Arka
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Re: Spell Checker

Brisingr Aerowing25-Mar-15 8:20

Brisingr Aerowing

25-Mar-15 8:20

Chris hasn't been able to get the CKEditor spell check plugin working, so no spell check.

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Re: Spell Checker

Chris Maunder26-Mar-15 10:30

Deleting a Question's bookmark

26-Mar-15 10:30

A Spell checking option has been added.

cheers
Chris Maunder

Re: Spell Checker

Arkadeep De26-Mar-15 19:02

Arkadeep De

26-Mar-15 19:02

Thanks a lot...

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Joan Magnet25-Mar-15 5:15

Joan Magnet

25-Mar-15 5:15

I mistakenly set a bookmark on a 'Question' and I can delete it.

Looking at source code, the link's

<div>

seems to be commented.

XML

<!-- TERMINAL_ID+YYYYMMDDhhmmss...</span></div>
        <div><a id="ctl00_MC_IR_ctl01_L" class="small-text" href="http://www.codeproject.com/Questions/890162/Send-XML-data-from-client-to-sever-using-TCP-socke">http://www.codeproject.com/Questions/890162/Send-XML-data-from-client-to-sever-using-TCP-socke</a></div>
    </td>
    <td id="ctl00_MC_IR_ctl01_AL" class="small-text" style="white-space: nowrap;">
    <ul class="CompactList">
        <li><a id="ctl00_MC_IR_ctl01_WB" class="small-text" href="javascript:__doPostBack(&#39;ctl00$MC$IR$ctl01$WB&#39;,&#39;&#39;)">Watch</a></li>
        <li><a id="ctl00_MC_IR_ctl01_RB" class="small-text" href="javascript:__doPostBack(&#39;ctl00$MC$IR$ctl01$RB&#39;,&#39;&#39;)">Publicly Recommend</a></li>
        <li><a onclick="javascript:return ConfirmDelete();" id="ctl00_MC_IR_ctl01_DB" class="small-text" href="javascript:__doPostBack(&#39;ctl00$MC$IR$ctl01$DB&#39;,&#39;&#39;)">Delete</a></li>
        </ul>

I put a question about it.

Delete a question's bookmark[^]

Thanks.

Put the Article along with the code downloads

Renganathan Iyengar25-Mar-15 1:39

Renganathan Iyengar

25-Mar-15 1:39

CodeProject is immensly useful to me for all sorts of coding help. I have read a number of articles in the last year or two and downloaded the examples code many times to learn. I also have to cut and paste or click the 'printonly' icon for the articles also along with these codes to read later and learn. These article prints finally go to an office word program and gets saved.

My suggestion is this: CodeProject can automatically include the article as part of the download (even as an HTML file - or at best a pdf file). This will help doing the cut / paste etc. Most importantly it will help save the articles along with the code samples so that we can read them later.

I have see some authors do this on their own.. I am giving this as a suggestion here.. May be it is there already - but waiting for a push to make it a default.

Well, thanks again to this wonderful & reliable site of coding help.

Renga

Renga Iyengar
India

OriginalGriff25-Mar-15 2:30

OriginalGriff

25-Mar-15 2:30

Why not just use the "bookmark" feature to add it to a list of article you are interested in? That way, when you go looking at the article you see the latest version, possibly with updated and improved source code?

(If you don't know about it, the bookmark is an orange "snakes tongue" to the left of the "print" icon at the top right of all articles)

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Renganathan Iyengar25-Mar-15 2:47

Renganathan Iyengar

25-Mar-15 2:47

You are right.. One more bookmark would do the thing.. But already with a system running into hundreds of bookmarks on all kinds of issues - finding this bookmark for the article is one more chore for the fingers on a tiring day.. also deleting these bookmarks never gets done by many of us.

We can as well google again and go on a wonderland of links by Mr.Google and picking up the third one by habit to land in a similar site - then wandering again back to code project and keying in the article name to see !

Well, coders are not productive people. We are logical but we do not have an idea of how to save our hours from wasteful searches and codes..

Pl help - ask code project team to atlease put a link inside the codes so that the page comes right inside the Visual Studio for all to look at it in a simple way !

This is a more simpler suggestion and many will save hours per week on this alone..

Renga Smile | :)

Pete O'Hanlon25-Mar-15 2:49

Pete O'Hanlon

25-Mar-15 2:49

The problem you have is that a PDF version is stale as soon as you get it. If an author updates the article to correct a mistake, for instance, you end up with text that no longer represents the actual article.

OriginalGriff25-Mar-15 3:11

OriginalGriff

25-Mar-15 3:11

But that second idea isn't bad: CP already reads the ZIP contents when you add it (to produce the EXE-free version) so it shouldn't be too difficult to add a URL file that takes you to the original article (or it's latest incarnation).

And that could be very handy!

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Renganathan Iyengar25-Mar-15 3:01

Renganathan Iyengar

25-Mar-15 3:01

Well, let me add one more Suggestion to my article link suggestion.. If possible (by means of some Voodoo magic or something available under the .net framework hood !) the codes can also be put neatly inside a specific folder called 'CodeProCodeFolder' or some such thing - right under the VS project available under the Mydocuments foldr - so that even the task of downloading the samples et al is done in a quicker way..

Now, we click & the page turns to do a small voodoo prayer and tells you to login so that it will grant the boon of the code download.. and you go to search for the password once again !

Why not a simple "GetThatCodeProjectSampleCode.com" kind of portal (with better and nice looking advertisements with some good models showing the wonders of their god given assemblies and other oddities - you know what I mean. As of now CP is just dull with orange colours all over) - which put automatically put all the damn sample code packets in one go..

Well, let us have a coding productivity improvement forum.. Many of us just hit the keyboards for more and more codes - with out even seeing the bright sunshine outside waiting for us to come and see the beauties outside. We see only the internal beauties - the leftovers available near our workstations.. not much choices there too.

Cheers ! (We are becoming better here with Code Project's help !)

Renga

Chris Maunder25-Mar-15 6:46

25-Mar-15 6:46

I'm glad CodeProject is helping you out!

We've never been keen on the idea of having a million out of date versions of articles distributed hither and thither. Authors contribute code and that code is free to wing its way around the net. The article, however, is a different story and authors typically want a single place for their article in order to keep all comments (and kudos) in one manageable location.

cheers
Chris Maunder

Tom Deketelaere25-Mar-15 10:06

Bug with the hide / show / expand ... buttons on code blocks

25-Mar-15 10:06

How about that second idea he proposed?

See:
http://www.codeproject.com/suggestions.aspx?msg=5027840#xx5027840xx[^]

[quote]
Pl help - ask code project team to atlease put a link inside the codes so that the page comes right inside the Visual Studio for all to look at it in a simple way !
[/quote]

I think a simple txt file with the url would be nice. And that way it's always to the updated article.

Tom

Tom Deketelaere24-Mar-15 2:12

Re: Bug with the hide / show / expand ... buttons on code blocks

24-Mar-15 2:12

When I first open a post with code in it I get 2 lines of these buttons:

Hide   Shrink    Copy Code<br />
Hide   Copy Code

If I use the perma-link from the message only the bottom line is shown (so no shrink button)

public void test
{
//Some test code here to see if I get the same here



































//test
}

Noticed it on these 2 messages (in case it's something with the messages themself):
They are on the same forum so you can just use one prema-link and then click on the other message.
Message title:
VB.Net
Why I use explicit interface implementation as a default implementation technique[^]
message title:
Re: The issue with implementing explicitely (the reply with a question icon)
Why I use explicit interface implementation as a default implementation technique[^]

Chrome Version 41.0.2272.101 m

[EDIT]
I don't have it on my test code block so might be just something with those messages
[/EDIT]
[EDIT2]
Just noticed the expand / shrink buttons only appear if the code block is big (nice feature)
So that explains why the expand button isn't shown when using the perma-link
[/EDIT2]

Tom

modified 24-Mar-15 14:20pm.

Chris Maunder24-Mar-15 2:30

Re: Bug with the hide / show / expand ... buttons on code blocks

24-Mar-15 2:30

So all sorted then Smile | :)

cheers
Chris Maunder

Tom Deketelaere24-Mar-15 2:39