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I actually posted my question in the Windows API forum, thinking that was the appropriate place to ask Windows API questions. Should I be redundant and post it in the questions section as well?
m.bergman
-- For Bruce Schneier, quanta only have one state : afraid.
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If you haven't tried the Quick Answers[^] system then yes, it would be valuable to me for you to try and provide whatever feedback you can.
Ultimately the forums are discussion forums where members can engage in long, hopefully rambling discussions on a topic. QA is meant to be purely questions and answers, no fluff.
As to your initial question about views, that's extremely difficult (not impossible, but heavy on the servers and misleading in results) because messages are shown up to 50 a page, and initially closed, so if a message appears on a page is it viewed or not? When it's opened? What if you set your forum mode to have all posts open? Are all 50 messages then instantly deemed "viewed"?
It's messy, so I've not attempted view numbers on discussion messages.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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Michael Bergman wrote: Should I be redundant and post it in the questions section as well?
There are more folks answering in the Q/A forums, so yeah I'd do that if I were you.
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Michael Bergman wrote: Should I be redundant and post it in the questions section as well
Nishant Sivakumar wrote: yeah I'd do that if I were you
So you're telling OP to repost :P
"With sufficient thrust, pigs fly just fine."
Ross Callon, The Twelve Networking Truths, RFC1925
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Michael Bergman wrote: Should I be redundant and post it in the questions section as well?
NO
One or the other, but not both. This point is made several times in the various posting guidelines. As Chris says, the fora and Q+A are intended for different styles - discussion vs quick answer.
Cheers,
Peter
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994.
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Looks like you're outvoted two to one.
m.bergman
-- For Bruce Schneier, quanta only have one state : afraid.
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Weird. Just look how often "crosspost" appears in Q+A answers (or questions retitled by editors).
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994.
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Uhm, I had a look at your questions in Q&A, and guess what? There aren't any. You probably mean your messages in the different programming fora of CP?
"I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by." (DNA)
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So some coward downvoted my link. How lame is that?
m.bergman
-- For Bruce Schneier, quanta only have one state : afraid.
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And someone else voted you 5's. Idiot votes tend not to last very long. 
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
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Thank you. You are a prince among theives. 
m.bergman
-- For Bruce Schneier, quanta only have one state : afraid.
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Okay: so the menu header says "Questions & Answers", the menu that is under that says "All Message Boards", the title of that page refers to "Discussion Boards" and asks you to select a "Forum".
So please pardon me for selecting the wrong word/phrase out of so many to choose from.
m.bergman
-- For Bruce Schneier, quanta only have one state : afraid.
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No problem, but you see why I got confused by your post.
"I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by." (DNA)
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Thanks, I figured out where the views box is and it is nowhere near where I posted my question.
Okay....
m.bergman
-- For Bruce Schneier, quanta only have one state : afraid.
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Smithers-Jones wrote: No problem, but you see why I got confused by your post.
Well it's not the OP's fault. If there's anyone responsible for the confusion it's Chris M for designing that menu that way. Kinda like putting the Exit menu-entry under the Edit menu in a Windows app. 
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Nishant Sivakumar wrote: Kinda like putting the Exit menu-entry under the Edit menu in a Windows app.
Or like putting the Exit menu-entry under the File menu in a Windows app. Oh, wait...
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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AspDotNetDev wrote: Or like putting the Exit menu-entry under the File menu in a Windows app. Oh,
wait...\
I am sure Ray Chen will have an explanation for that!
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I remember reading a blog post about it. Was the the one who wrote that? In any event, there should be an "Application" menu!
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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... oe putting Shutdown on the Start menu.
On consideration, I am not putting the joke icon on this. (But if there was a "cheap shot" one I'd consider it.) 
Peter
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994.
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I'm changing this next release. Quick Answers and Discussions under separate menu headings.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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Chris Maunder wrote: I'm changing this next release. Quick Answers and Discussions under separate
menu headings.
I just saw the menu changes. It looks good.
Thanks,
m.bergman
-- For Bruce Schneier, quanta only have one state : afraid.
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Can we please get a "Not an alternate" item in the Report menu.
".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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We have the "wrong type" option. We're in the middle of reworking the article system to make it far easier to switch between types.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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That's not really applicable. When someone posts a comment (that is NOT an alternate tip) to a tip/trick, they more-often-than-not incorrectly use the "Post Alternate" button. The problem is that we have no way of reporting something like that. "Wrong Type" implies that it shouldn't be something other than a tip (a blog, or an article).
".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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