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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
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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)
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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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 
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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.
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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!
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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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
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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
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How about that second idea he proposed?
See:
http://www.codeproject.com/suggestions.aspx?msg=5027840#xx5027840xx[^]
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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 !
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I think a simple txt file with the url would be nice. And that way it's always to the updated article.
Tom
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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
{
}
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
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[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.
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So all sorted then 
cheers
Chris Maunder
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I'm on it. I've been at a conference for the last 2 days so am coding in breaks. Narrowed it down to the last, squirming, line of code. Will squash it and deploy.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Chris Maunder wrote: I've been at a conference for the last 2 days so am coding in breaks.
At a conference and even fixing these (small, unimportant) bugs.
That's dedication
It doesn't get said enough so: thank you (and the entire CP team) for all the wonderful work you guys (and gals) do
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I agree with Tom, thanks for all you guys do to keep this site up and running.
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
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The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
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Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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Fixed. Properly. I hope.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Looks good from this end so I'd call it fixed
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There's an underline after "script" that shouldn't be there.
Can you please forward me (chris at codeproject.com) the confirmation email you received?
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Thx for fast answer.
I will forward them in a moment...
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Clicked the link and it worked first time.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Well. Thx very much.
I have 7 confirmation emails and neither of those worked for me. I checked also a moment ago, but still getting funny 'try to realise the truth: There is no page'
It is hard to believe that same URL can work differently from both locations, cause location should have nothing to do with it... Anyway my email is now confirmed.
Thx again
Jan
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After I deleted my account[^] today, my profile states that my account had been deleted because I would've been abusive or a troll - which is not the case, just a single member apparently reported me for whatever random reason a few days ago, unrelated to my voluntary deletion of my profile.
I would like to know that authors I've left comments on their articles or members I've had discussions with in the forums will not have to assume that I've been kicked for being abusive or a troll when clicking on my user name. So I would kindly ask for a fix for that. Merci!
- Sebastian
modified 23-Mar-15 18:32pm.
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May I ask you if your decision was motivated by something that happened on this site?
Please forgive me if you find my question intrusive ; you obviously don't have to justify your choice. You are a valuable member of this community, IMHO (I mostly base this assumption on the answers you provided in QA), and your leaving just arouse my curiosity.
Wish you every success in your future, anyway.
There are two kinds of people in the world: those who can extrapolate from incomplete data.
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phil.o wrote: You are a valuable member of this community, IMHO (I mostly base this assumption on the answers you provided in QA)
Wish you every success in your future, anyway.
Thank you, much appreciated
Your other question: clicky[^]
- Sebastian
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I've fixed it by removing that vote, and I'm going to change it so that it's harder for this to happen again.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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