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Ah yes. The old "it works on my computer" defence.
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Normally I'm the one for whom it breaks. Yesterday was just my unlucky day...
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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Chris Maunder wrote: I'm seeing votes my end...
I see dead people too...
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that's a more serious problem... 
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Hi,
If you've got a spare moment & don't mind doing a bit of editorial \ QA, could you have a look at my latest article - Visual Application Launcher[^]
In particular, can you download the source and have a look at the README.txt
Is it clear to you what steps you need to complete to get the application up and running? If you've got all the prerequisites to run the application, could you give it a go?
It's by far the longest article + most complex source I've posted on here....I'm rambling at points....just need a sense check to make sure I haven't forgotten anything critical!
Any feedback appreciated
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The readme file seems reasonable to me, except it's called READ-ME-FIRST!.txt 
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Ill give it a try.
If God helps those who help themselves, don't you think we should do the same?
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Hi,
I've just uploaded my first article to CP (in fact my first technical article anywhere) and was wondering if people can give me some feedback on it.
What parts on it I did right and what parts on it can be improved on for any other articles I write.
The article is
Comparison between different methods to iterate over a list of items[^]
Thanks in advance
Regards
Michael
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I see your article is already published and is viewable by normal members too.
In due course of time, you will surely get lots of feedback via forum present at the end of your article.
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I am not able to update an article by uploading a zip, and I am getting a message -
"Please provide a title for your article" which does not exist as text box when updating.
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Can you please try again? A bug on that page has been fixed. My apologies.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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I suggested to a poster that his content should go in Tips & Tricks, and he asked[^] how to transfer it. As far as I am aware this needs delete and repost. Is there a quicker solution?
I must get a clever new signature for 2011.
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It's on our TODO but hasn't been implemented yet.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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I also got this supplementary question from the OP:
deepanjan.das@gmail.com wrote: Appreciate your prompt reply. But I do not see any delete option against my article.
Can you please let me know how to delete an article.
I am not sure of the answer; maybe I should post a dummy article to check out what can & cannot be done. Also, the article appears to have been deleted since he posted the question.
I must get a clever new signature for 2011.
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I dropped him a message on the article on where to find the delete.
It is located under the search box top right, but only appears if the article is editable. (i.e. is still unpublished or flagged unedited contribution), The delete icon sits next to the get article html and edit online icons.
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I must get a clever new signature for 2011.
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I've seen a couple of questions recently in programming forums, all about e-mailing. As I would be interested to know but don't know the best answer to them, I suggest someone who knows to attempt to provide us all with an article on the subject.
Your mission, should you choose to accept it, would be this:
assume you wrote an application that will be deployed to a variety of Windows systems in all kinds of networking configurations; now this app occasionally wants to send you an e-mail, e.g. reporting usage statistics or problem situations. What are necessary steps in the app itself, what are recommendations for the local network manager, etc. to maximize the likelihood that sending e-mails will succeed, at best without user intervention. Also, what parameters should be configurable to adapt during installation.
[ADDED] The subject could be extended to automatic uploading of a file to an FTP site, which is expected to have similar hurdles to jump.[/ADDED]
TIA
Luc Pattyn [Forum Guidelines] [My Articles] Nil Volentibus Arduum
Please use <PRE> tags for code snippets, they preserve indentation, improve readability, and make me actually look at the code.
modified on Tuesday, January 11, 2011 10:04 AM
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Good idea Luc, but in order to gather the requirements in greater depth than your short summary why not post a couple of links to these questions you encountered. I'm very curious about your nebulous remark "in all kinds of networking configurations" which covers just about everything and every way devices might be connected to one another.
Cheers!
modified on Thursday, January 27, 2011 7:12 PM
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Parameters would include:
- architecture of the network; is a firewall present? is a proxy required?
- mail infrastructure: is a local mail client present? logged in? is web mail to be used?
and maybe many more.
The whole idea of the article would be to collect the various possibilities and solutions, as a proactive approach for the next situation that may arise.
As for the links, sorry, it has been two weeks since then.
Luc Pattyn [Forum Guidelines] [My Articles] Nil Volentibus Arduum
Please use <PRE> tags for code snippets, they preserve indentation, improve readability, and make me actually look at the code.
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Luc Pattyn wrote: The whole idea of the article would be to collect the various possibilities and solutions, as a proactive approach for the next situation that may arise.
Sounds like a wiki.
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There are lots of good question and answer almost about each topic. It helps to improve ones performance. Some times latest likes or voted question answer discussion can be mailed.
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I wrote the following for a series of articles found under this author's Article list for 4 articles regarding Silverlight. Here is the link to the 4 articles on his article page: Link.
I know that this stuff happens all the time, but I am curious to know what, if any, action would normally be taken?
Here is what I wrote:
I am going to go out on a limb here, so if I insult anyone because I am WRONG, then I apologize in advance. However, if I am anywhere near correct I am hopeful that the CodeProject.com God's figure out a way to correct the situation (if they deem it necessary to do so).
First, I invested A LOT of time going over the 4 articles associated with this Issue Vision, supposed issue tracker "example". I am no sleuth, but I was nonetheless fooled by these articles (as I will point out). I am also no expert, and so I rely on many articles on codeproject.com to learn. When I saw this "example" I was excited to have a framework to build upon for my own personal projects. So whatever you might say in response, yes, it's my own fault for falling for this fraud.
Second, this article is exactly that, a fraud. I was having trouble creating a new view in this project. No matter what I did (even what Mr. Shen suggested in his response - before he suggested it), I kept getting an error. I scanned around the messages to each of the 4 articles to see if a similar question had been asked. It had not been asked (surprisingly, leading me to believe I was truly out of my realm for what seemed like a basic task). But, and this was my first indication of the fraud, I noticed that Mr. Shen's answers to many specific "how to" questions were vague and common sense responses without any indiciation of what someone should do for their particular request. So, I posted the question of how to add views. Mr. Shen's response was so vague as to cause me to spend 1/2 hour deciding whether or not I should continue investing time with the "example". I had already invested over 20 hours reading, learning and trying to build off the example.
Initially, I just thought that Mr. Shen was a busy man and probably took the approach of "teacher" by trying to point me in the right direction without giving me the answer expecting me to learn it (the "teach a man to fish" scenario). I could have respected that. But then I found this: MS Line of Business Sample.
That, for those of you who are unaware of the fraud, is Microsoft's very own Line of Business Sample for Silverlight 4. It is exactly Issue Vision as Mr. Shen presents it. If you scroll down to the sample's "Home" page rendition, you will not it has the same language as in Issue Vision. Note that in article 1 on this, Mr. Shen states:
"This three part article series is my effort at creating such a sample. The choice of an issue tracking application comes from David Poll's PDC09 talk, and the design architecture is from Shawn Wildermuth's blog posts."
I did not find anything about this architecture from Mr. Wildermuth's posts (other than just his posts about an architecture such as that used in Issue Vision by Mr. Shen). However, I must admit that after that 1/2 hour of deliberating I abandoned the idea of trying to learn from Issue Vision because I could not figure out the errors I was getting when trying to add a new view.
So, IMHO, Mr. Shen failed to answer my question only because i suspect he does not know the answer. All he did was dress up Issue Vision from the MS example and called it his own.
I am not so naive as to believe this has never happened on codeproject.com or anywhere else on the web. However, given the response from Mr. Shen, and given my INADVERDENT discovery of the MS example, and given the time I invested with Mr. Shen's "example", I felt it warranted my post to warn others and hopefully to get codeproject.com to act. I have been using this site for over 7 years to help out with learning this stuff, and it's a shame.
Why do I care, you might ask? Because you know that Mr. Shen is pimping this article out there in the world claiming to have created something he did not. Plagarism, Mr. Shen, is not teaching.
I will be cross-posting this for maximum exposure. If Mr. Shen is able to delete comments, then the integrity of codeproject.com is seriously compromised.
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