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Hi Sean,
Thanks for your help but someone has already resolved the problem!
Regards
Alessandro
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Hey there,
I submitted an article (the 6th of March) which I want to edit. I have updated the source code and want to change some text in the article. However viewing my article, I cannot find the edit link anymore. I used to have the ability to change my article[^], am I missing something?
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Hi Eduard,
The reason for the difference you are seeing is because your article has been edited by a CP editor. How can you tell? First, the article's header (initially a light blue) changes to yellow/tan; second, if you look at the bottom line of the article page, you will see Editor: Deeksha Shenoy. This is the name of the CP editor who edited your article. You should have been sent an email when this happened.
What this all means is that you can no longer directly edit your article. Instead, you must zip up the download, new article html, and new images, and send them to submit at codeproject.com. Be sure to include the url of your article in the email text. For subject, say "Article update" or something like that. After you send the email, it will take a few days for the update to be processed, depending on how busy the editors are. If you want to check the status, send an email to the same address, asking where it is in the queue.
BTW, this forum is not really meant for problems with articles after they have been submitted, since the CP staff does not regularly check this forum. If you need help with an article already published, you should use the Site Bugs / Suggestions forum.
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Using a C# DLL in an MFC application, indirectly, might be an interesting article for someone?
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Yup, enough brownfields in MFC that could benefit from .NET 
I are troll
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Dear friends of CodeProject staff,
I have a question about article competition and about prize assignments.
In march I published the DataGridView filter popup[^] article which received good responses from other CodeProject users.
The latest newsletter announces the winners of march. I agree with the choice of the Perceptor[^] article as best overall article, but I don't agree with the choice of the Multi Remote Desktop Client .NET[^] as the best c# article.
Of course I always appreciate who share something with others but I think that the proposed code is substantially a wapper around a preexisting activex control and that the article content is very laconic.
I am quite disappointed and I would know which are the rules applied in designing the "best" article. I just realized that the rating and popularity indicators don't matter. Nor it doesn't matter if the article proposes an original solution and if it contains a comprehensive explanation.
Considering that every competition provides its rules, I don't understand why you don't make public your rules.
Morever, I don't understand why you don't write the reasons that brought to award an article.
Thank you very much
V.R.
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Well, I'm glad to see you're concerned about article quality, because otherwise I don't think you would have posted this. There are many good reasons why I post articles here, but the article competition isn't one of them. Reason? Because most of the people voting probably have not - and will never - use the article, and therefore haven't a clue about whether the article is useful or not.
Over time, you will get many good comments. Value these, and try to use even the bad comments to improve your articles; the serious members here will notice and appreciate them. I think you know by now that there are many immature members here - don't let these people color your experience. Write for yourself, because you like sharing; for the serious members, because they will appreciate it; and to improve your code, because you will get good comments.
The article competitions are CodeProject's version of beauty pageants; they are superficial and largely meaningless. Just ignore them - I do, and I don't vote in them either.
I hope you will continue to write the very best articles you can.
p.s. The CP admins don't read this forum regularly, so if you really want an answer, you should post in the Site Bugs / Suggestions forum.
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Hans,
thank you for your answer.
I share my code because I like to think I've done something useful to others and to learn from others.
Which is the measure of the usefulness? Feedbacks like comments, votes and, why not, prizes.
I think everyone is encouraged to do more and better when he or she receives positive feedbacks. The others appreciations is fundamental and a prize is a kind of formal appreciation about the done work.
That said, I'm surprised to read that a serious site like CodeProject adopt superficial and meaningless beauty pageants. Why? Which is the purpose?
I would like one of this three things will be done:
- Competition will be removed at all
- Competition will become serious, with public rules and prize reasons.
- Competition will be explicitelly declared as a facetious roulette game.
I will follow your suggestion, posting my doubts in the Site Bugs / Suggestions forum.
thank you again
Vin
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Try to look past the superficial. Take the long view; in the end, the serious members will give your articles the votes they deserve. You will only make yourself unhappy to expect anything else.
I wish you the best of luck.
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Hans,
thank you.
you're right.
Vin
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Hey,
Is it possible once and article is moved out of the unedited contributions sections to still ad an author (or co-author) to it?
Cheers
BN
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This is more of a site question than an article-writing question. The CP admins don't look at this forum regularly, so you might want to ask this question on the Site Bugs / Suggestions forum.
p.s. I'm not sure what the answer is, but I suspect it is "Yes - contact a site admin for help". You can contact a site admin by emailing submit at codeproject dot com.
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Ok, ty for the help
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Yep. Just please send us an e-mail at submit@codeproject.com and we'd be happy to add it for you
Thanks,
Sean Ewington
The Code Project
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devimages wrote: So if you are a gold or silver advertiser in the product catalog would you be eligible to write such an article?
This is a little confusing because there are gold and silver members, and also gold and silver catalog entries. They have nothing to do with each other. Gold and silver catalog entries refer to the paid catalog entries. There is also a free catalog entry called "bronze".
devimages wrote: If so how would it be submitted?
If you want to submit a free "bronze" catalog listing, go to the Catalog entry on the green menu bar above. You want the Post a Catalog Item menu entry.
If you have any problems, you can post a question for the CP admins on the Site Bugs / Suggestions forum.
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devimages wrote: Lets assume I have a paid-for advert in the Product Catalog. Does this make me eligible to publish an article in the Product Showcase?
I don't know.
devimages wrote: what specifically are the qualifying criteria to allow such an article to be published?
You basically just pay for it - see my post above for link to Product Showcase info.
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An article about a simple and short class using anonymous pipe for inter-process communication could be interesting to someone?
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I look forward to seeing it.
"WPF has many lovers. It's a veritable porn star!" - Josh Smith As Braveheart once said, "You can take our freedom but you'll never take our Hobnobs!" - Martin Hughes.
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Thanks for your reply. The article is on the way.
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I have posted an article called File Searcher in C#[^] .
On April 8, I wanted to update the text and the source code of this article. So I wrote an email to submit@codeproject.com. The email contained 2 attachments: "ViewHtml.aspx.htm" (an updated version of the html text) and "FileSearcher.zip" (the new source code). The email also contained the name of the article and its URL in the email body.
- But the article still has not been updated! What did I do wrong?
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Manfred Bittersam wrote: But the article still has not been updated! What did I do wrong?
Probably nothing. That was only 2 days ago. The CP editors have some backlog, so I wouldn't worry for another few days. If you're really concerned, post a message on the Suggestions forum, and ask what the status is; I don't think the editors read this forum regularly.
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