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That's what I thought, too, until I looked and they were all there.
Gremlins.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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I get the Mobile Dev newsletter (among others) by email. Because I use a simple-minded web based email client (I have a private mail server on my domain), I'm unable to read the newsletter. A link to the online version would be very welcome.
Side note: I spent 5 minutes trying to find the Mobile Dev newsletter @ CP and gave up. (The standard newsletter is easily accessible, but not the others).
Thanks,
/ravi
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It's on the list and will be added soon.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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Odd. Unfortunately the article in question has disappeared from that list but I'll dig in.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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What is meat by "Permalink" in Q/A
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Hello All,
I have one suggestion and hope that help to make this user friendly forum more user friendly.
I would suggest to add option to add reason / remark / comment when user improves other members question. and we can display it on the space above the "Comment" and below the question/CP name who posted the question.
I know we can add the comment after improving question but it would be more helpful if we can add that one while improving the question itself and see if we can make it mandatory.
This is just my suggestion . I will continue to use comment option which is there in forum . But please analyze this suggestion and implement if you think it important
Thanks
Rahul D.
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It's a good idea, but what happens when a question has been revised multiple times? This could become bigger than the question itself.
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Thanks Pete O'Hanlon, Ya that could be the condition (Not issue).
But as we seen uptill now normally any question might get two or three revision.
We have much professional and good people whose revision won't need update.
Agreed ?
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This could also be set up to only be viewed if the user wants to see the statements, that way it doesn't clutter up the Q&A, but at the same time, the comments are there for editors (sort of like version control).
I like the idea.
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Thanks Albert ,
So in summary we can do this
1) Provide option to write cause of editing other CP Member's question.
2) Provide link after question and above comments to see this "edition casues" who want to see it can use this link.
Hope this helps ,
--Rahul D.
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I have tried to formata code using pre tag but instead of formating it display tag itself in the question
you can reproduce this by using below question
delete records in table[^]
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Was the checkbox "Treat my content as plain text, not as HTML" under the content checked? That is the most likely reason.
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Thanks . That was the case
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Ah yes, I too have been fooled by this small and seemingly innocuous checkbox. 
Once one knows it's no longer a problem. (Self evident comment of course) 
Cheers!
"With sufficient thrust, pigs fly just fine."
Ross Callon, The Twelve Networking Truths, RFC1925
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The Questions & Answers part of site is overwhelmed with dead questions which very unlikely will be ever answered. Some of them still have considerable value. Most of then really use resources and distract members' attention at the expense of decent posts.
Such dead questions could be automatically removed on certain condition (I'll discuss the conditions later), with notification sent to their author (so they would have a chance to legitimately re-post them after serious and proper re-formulation), but there is some risk of removing something good. This risk is not too high, because anyway, presently good but unanswered questions get sunk in the crowd of useless posts if they are not answered during certain period of time.
If this automatic sanitation is not acceptable, what would be the way to remove them in a human-judged way, by some consensus of experts? The volume is too high. One option is this: adding one more tab in the tab control here: http://www.codeproject.com/script/Answers/List.aspx[^]. This tab would list the candidates for permanent removal.
The criteria for putting a question on this list could be this: 1) not answered during certain period of time; 2) having certain score of reports like "unclear or incomplete", "re-post", "not a question", etc.
What would be a criteria for permanent removal? We could have a control like "vote to remove", so the removal could be done automatically on certain score of such reports. Such vote could require a written comment confirming the reason for removal. Some small number of point could be awarded to a member participated in this useful work.
Thank you for attention for this suggestion,
—SASergey A Kryukov
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What would be the benefit of removing old questions? Is it so they don't show up in searches, or so they aren't "touched" and resurrected back onto the homepage?
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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I hate when I have a question, I Google it, I arrive at a site where somebody else has asked the same question 5 years ago, and it has no answers. Too many of those and my overall opinion of a site is affected. If I often find questions with good answers on that site, I may be more inclined to visit it before I visit other sites.
Also, unanswered questions may hurt your SEO. If you get to a site via a Google search, then click the back button in your browser, Google will give you the option to hide all future results from that site. They may incorporate that as one of their factors when deciding how to rank results from that site, regardless of whether or not the user actually chooses to hide the results from that site.
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AspDotNetDev wrote: I hate when I have a question, I Google it, I arrive at a site where somebody else has asked the same question 5 years ago, and it has no answers.
Excellent point.
"the meat from that butcher is just the dogs danglies, absolutely amazing cuts of beef." - DaveAuld (2011)
"No, that is just the earthly manifestation of the Great God Retardon." - Nagy Vilmos (2011)
"It is the celestial scrotum of good luck!" - Nagy Vilmos (2011)
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Occasionally I answer old unanswered questions when I feel boring so please don't remove.
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Please be bored and answer sooner then.
Luc Pattyn [My Articles] Nil Volentibus Arduum
Fed up by FireFox memory leaks I switched to Opera and now CP doesn't perform its paste magic, so links will not be offered. Sorry.
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I hope you don't see yourself as boring, but merely bored 
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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You see, it looks like two other members supported my ideas.
I thought I explained my point with was a bit different: the site is overwhelmed with dead questions. They are usually not dead because no one could not answer yet, but more usually because answering in the form "Add a solution" makes no sense at all. The problem is: author of good but just difficult question suffer, because the chances to get noticed become less and less with time.
Imagine how we pick question for answering. For example, I post the answer in form of solution to a small percent of the questions. In many cases I'm not competent enough, but in many cases I just click the one question and see that answering makes no sense. It looks like scanning the lost of questions takes more time then answering (even though I tend to put a lot of detail in the answer). This is bad, but we hardly can improve this situation.
What's worse, if the question was not notices for certain period of time, it has less and less chance to get noticed. Why will scan all the history from recent to old? One can click "unanswered questions" and see more of them per page, but the problem is then needle in a haystack. If dead questions were gradually removed, it would be much easier.
Unfortunately, this a part of a bigger problem: I can see that the Questions & Answer site gets worse and worse with time as more poor questions and more poor answers arrive increasingly compared to decent stuff. There is nothing wrong with it, but good stuff gets lost. Isn't it a time to think of harder moderation of such posts? I know, this is not an easy problem, but reputation of the site suffer.
Just think about it.
Thank you very much,
—SASergey A Kryukov
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What's better? To find a way to encourage more questions to be answered, or to delete questions that aren't answered and simply have them reposted?
The issue you are seeing is that the Unanswered Question list is becoming large, so you'd like questions that are a certain age, and unanswered, removed. Would it not be better to provide this as a view ("Show recent unanswered") instead of permanently removing them? That way we allow others to have a chance at answering them.
As always, an unanswered question that truly can't be answered because it's far too open or too poorly phrased should be removed immediately.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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