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It appears as if I DID merge the alternate into the trick. I suppose I was still pretty wound up about the 1 bombing so I did see what I was looking at.
Apologies all around, and I'll just go back to my seat and not say anything for a while.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997
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No worries.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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Can you make that a stickey thread and pin it to the top of this forum for the next few weeks? I am sure John will appreciate that! 
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Looks like that is the wrong URL... perhaps the URL was changed?
Using Table-Valued Functions in SQL Server works for me.
Martin Fowler wrote: Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand.
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Thanks, that's good info. For some reason the URL I posted is listed in My Articles under my profile with the text Deleted Most likely this is because the initial version was deleted and then renamed...
Thanks again!
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Few things I've seen:
- If I hold shift and press a direction arrow, the highlighted text is deleted. Only seems to happen after I paste something in the message.
- While typing this messsage, I was sometimes typing 10 words before they showed up (I'm talking about the textbox, not the preview). Crazy lag. I am typing this message just fine, but that may be because I haven't pasted anything (aside from a link).
- When I pasted the above link before the closing LI and closing OL I had already typed, both of them were moved to just before the inserted A (anchor) tag.
Martin Fowler wrote: Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand.
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If you mouse over the code block dropdown with the text window near the bottom of the screen, half of the list becomes invisible, because it is below the bottom edge of the browser window. Perhaps we need something like the context menu, where it swaps above / below and left / right according to how close it is to the edge of the screen?
Chrome 13.0.782.112 m
Real men don't use instructions. They are only the manufacturers opinion on how to put the thing together.
Manfred R. Bihy: "Looks as if OP is learning resistant."
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And while we're on the subject...
If you have the "profile popups" thingy active and hover on somebody near the top of the (maybe scrolled) page, the popup can be partly hidden off the top.
No biggy. FF and Chrome for me, probably universal.
Peter
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994.
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Load all the Country Names of the World in DropDown[^]
For what it's worth, three other alternates (from other people) were also deleted.
And then there's this one:
A Generic Comparison Class for Collection Items[^]
BTW, there is a restore button next to the ip in my list of tips/tricks, but when I click it, I get the page that says it couldn't be found.
WTF is going on?
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997
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Maybe the author of the original tip did not like your alternative? Although after reading your alternative, it would better work as a comment rather than as a full alternative since it's not complete by itself.
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Alternatives don't have to incluide code, and even *I* can't delete alternate tips, so it had to be an admin that did it.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997
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You can delete alternatives to your own tips, not other peoples' so it wasn't necessarily an admin who did this.
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The key point being that *I* didn't do it.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997
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Yes, but it wasn't your Tip/Trick: Sunasara Imdadhusen was the OP, he can delete alternatives he doesn't think fit the bill for some reason, without the admins getting involved.
[Edit]
Just seen you were the OP for the second one, apologies!
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John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote: Alternatives don't have to incluide code,
Not always, but in this case it seemed more suitable as a comment than an alternate.
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I'm certainly not going to sit there and type in a couple huindred lines of X-f*ckin-ML. The decsription was an alternative. The OP is supposed to be a programmer. Let HIM type it in.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997
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John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote: I'm certainly not going to sit there and type in a couple huindred lines of
X-f*ckin-ML. The decsription was an alternative. The OP is supposed to be a
programmer. Let HIM type it in.
No one's saying you should. Just that what you posted is worthy of being a comment, that's all 
Based on Chris's reply, one of the editors seemed to have thought so too.
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The alternate A Generic Comparison Class for Collection Items[^] was (I'm assuming) deleted because the content had already been integrated into the main tip.
I've asked the editors about the country names one, though I would guess it's because what you posted wasn't an alternative, but was simply a comment on how to go about creating an alternative.
I looked through the logs and I was the one who deleted the alternative back in April.
"You'd be better off with an XML file, and loading the date using code-behind." is a totally valid suggestion, but it's not a tip. An Alternative Tip needs to be, by definition, a tip you can use as an alternative to the given tip, and needs to embody everything a tip has. At the very least a code snippet, even pseudo code, to walk a reader through what you are suggesting.
Now if you wish to discuss this further I'm on a small island in the Galapagos Islands and absolutely nowhere near Toronto.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
modified on Monday, August 22, 2011 5:03 PM
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Chris Maunder wrote: but was simply a comment on how to go about creating an alternative.
Which is an alternative itself.
Chris Maunder wrote: The alternate A
Generic Comparison Class for Collection Items[^] was (I'm assuming) deleted because the content had already
been integrated into the main tip.
It was something someone else suggested, which is WHY it was posted as an alternative *with the proper credit* to that user.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997
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John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote: It was something someone else suggested, which is WHY it was posted as an
alternative *with the proper credit* to that user.
Interesting. I did not realize that this was how Tips worked. I assumed they'd be like the QA forum where you can add comments to responses. I think Tips should have this too. I'd rather see someone add a comment saying, "hey, maybe you can replace that String.Replace with a regex" than have that one line posted as an alternate Tip. Once a Tip gets a comment, the OP can then edit his Tip and include that data as well (if he thinks it's useful).
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Nishant Sivakumar wrote: I assumed they'd be like the QA forum where you can add comments to responses.
You can.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote: there is a restore button next to the ip in my list of tips/tricks
IP? We don't list that...
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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Somone is 1-bombing all of my messages in the SEAL Team 6 thread. Can we please put a stop to it? At last count, there were 11 1-votes, and that, to me, is abuse.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997
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Well you could use your patented delete-and-repost method here!
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