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Chris Maunder wrote: This has always been the case.
Hah. Yeah. I thought so. Just my luck. A "perfect" mix of being overworked, tired and a bug. It sure sounds nice with the save button 
Thank you
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I've done some major reworking of the Auto-save and added a "Save draft" button. I also have the page save on page unload, meaning it should always get your latest stuff if you accidentally (or otherwise) close the window.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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Great, thank you!
Cheers
Kjell
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Is the "save in-process" malfunction problem back again?
For a couple of days I have worked on the next update of an article. Today when I was going to continue all my changes are gone.
I earlier very carefully chose "work in progress: don't publish". I double checked previews and verified x-times with "save this version" and so on. I even stopped editing and went back to the article and click "update your article" just to verify that my changes were there. Apparently they were then, but not now.
All the pictures I uploaded are still there but the other article changes I worked with last night are all gone. This is very frustrating, maybe only off-line editing is the way to go?
This might be unrelated but if I now go into versions I see that for the last days where I worked on it it is edited by Smitha Vijayan.
Now to my questions. I hope you can help me out:
1. Any way for me to get back the edition I worked with yesterday?
2. Why is an editor working with my "work in progress: don't publish"?
If I "diff" the changes from the latest edit by the administrator there is no changes visible. It looks like whatever it was, was removed.
3. Why is this still happening? Human error by editor or me or is the save draft only kept for a short number of days?
Cheers,
Kjell Hedstrom
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1. Which article? I'm sure we can recover something
2. I'm going to ask. I agree, "work in progress" articles should remain untouched.
3. We're not sure. We're reworking a big chunk of the code to rework the piece that handles the new versions. I don't think it's user error, I think it's our issue, and we'll fix it.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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Thank you for your prompt reply Chris.
The article was: Number crunching: Why you should never, ever, EVER use linked-list in your code again[^]
I do have a small, small suspicion which might help? I do not know if this was the case but it is not impossible. Read on:
Is there an "auto save" every x-time units? Even without user interaction? What if you edit in one browser on one computer, then continue to edit on another computer, while still having the "edit" mode on the first? Will the first, old, edit auto-save and overwrite the newer edition?
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The edit of a previous article (tip) is even worse.
In Chrome, formatting of code in C# sections makes completely screwed up line spacing and the block of the code is lost.
In IE, clicking the code section marks a frame or something which it seems you can move around. Of course, you can't, but at the same time you can't edit the code. If you try to paste new code, line spacing goes crazy.
I remember this as a simple and straight process, so what has happened?
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I finally signed up for the insider. Yeah, I know. However, something struck me as out of place.
The Code Project Daily Insider keeps you up to date with what is happening around the industry. From the continue saga of the Big Boys to Scott Guthrie's blog ramblings and Steve Jobs' latest, you will find it here.
Are we still getting updates from Steve from beyond the grave? Just a small language nit, but one that I had to pick.
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I bet you are one of those people who think Elvis is still dead.
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I will never again mention that I was the poster of the One Millionth Lounge Post, nor that it was complete drivel. Dalek Dave
CCC Link[ ^]
English League Tables - Live
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Nah, Elvis just went home. 
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You'd prefer not to hear from him from the beyond the veil? OK, I'll fix that.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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RJOberg wrote: Are we still getting updates from Steve from beyond the grave?
I'll ask him about this
Leslie Nielsen
"I am serious...and don't call me Shirley."
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Hi. Today I have posted a tip:
1. I first submitted the tip.
2. It was looking ok in the editor. In the previous editor of tip writing we used to see the preview under the editor. But in new editor we don't.
3. I submitted the tip without seeing the preview. Yes that was my mistake.
4. Then, I found the code block is broken.
5. Also I found suggestion about the content from one fellow.
6. So, I updated the article and fixed the code format.
Few minutes back I found the tip is published but seems it is the 1st version that is published. The new version is not yet available. Shouldn't the latest version from the writer be published when it gets published for the 1st time?
here is the link of the tip.
How to download powerpoint file using C#
Mahmud Hasan
Software Engineer from Bangladesh
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This seems to be a problem with the new submissions wizard - I am getting the same problem. It doesn't look like its; the first version, I think that it is the latest with the same problem.
However, I have found a workaround.
Edit your Tip, and remove all code - check the preview and make sure you have no non-text elements visible.
Go into HTML mode with the <> button on the toolbar.
Put the cursor where you want your code.
Add the pre tags manually, specifying the language yourself:
<pre lang="c#"></pre>
Then paste your code inside the block (between the > and the <)
Press the <> button again.
The display looks wrong as the syntax colourizer isn't activated, but the preview will include it.
Ideological Purity is no substitute for being able to stick your thumb down a pipe to stop the water
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I mean, seriously.
".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
modified 9-Mar-12 7:36am.
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A bug, and a serious one.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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I'd say... 
".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 need to stop calling him Sasha. It's spelled Sacha and pronounced that way too as far as I know
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I'm somewhat dyslexic, I think.
".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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Nish Sivakumar wrote: You need to stop calling him Sasha. It's spelled Sacha and pronounced that way too as far as I know
I think he was watching Henry AspDotNetDev's collection*
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*Clickety[^]
thatrajaNobody remains a virgin, Life screws everyone 
modified 10-Mar-12 5:15am.
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 I highly recommend Sean's Oily MVP's II: Tassels of Terror.
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AspDotNetDev wrote: I highly recommend Sean's Oily MVP's II: Tassels of Terror.
Why only Sean? Chris too.Sean or I will massage it.
thatrajaNobody remains a virgin, Life screws everyone
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It's complicated!
The previous version had the advantage of looking just like a message, so it was very easy to use - this one takes a bit more think about - not that that is a bad thing, but it does get in it's own way sometimes.
The example of formatted code is a nuisance - because any code you add in a formatted block does not look like it! If you paste code in, it automatically selects "Formatted" (nice) but doesn't apply the pink background unless you highlight the whole block, select "Normal" and then reselect "Formatted"
It also doesn't like pasted code unless the line the cursor is on is completely empty - if you paste in the wrong place (at the end of existing text say) then it formats it, but breaks it into a number of blocks instead of keeping it as a single unit of code.
I have a good idea what I'm doing, and it was frustrating me - I spent a lot more time undoing and faffing about that I did on the Tip content. I'm sure that it will become second nature, but what it will do to someone who is not confident in their right to post a Tip I don't know. I can see some of them deciding it is more trouble that it is worth.
Ideological Purity is no substitute for being able to stick your thumb down a pipe to stop the water
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So, I finally get the tip done - it's ready to go.
Submit! "You haven't previewed it"
Ok, cancel that and Preview...
Yuech.
All of the code blocks that I pasted, and could read perfectly well have suddenly been buried in a huge pile of on-screen HTML...
Ideological Purity is no substitute for being able to stick your thumb down a pipe to stop the water
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Which Tip? Sean or I will massage it.
If you hit the "<>" icon on the editor toolbar you switch to HTML mode which allows you to enter the HTML directly. If that doesn't help then an option is I could add a Markdown-style mode that allows you to type the content in as you used to, and have the editor switch to proper HTML on the fly. This, however, is tricky since switching from well-formed HTML to Markdown (or the plain-text-with-HTML isn't reliable.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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