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Greetings! I'm just replying so as to help those in admin on codeproject realize that this is an issue needing addressing. I've been lucky so far, no abuse about my article I wrote, but I know that this kind of behavior should not be tolerated, because it chases off potential contributors, customers for the companies advertising here.
I know, I fear the ratings sytem here, I've seen other places, not here, where sadists took pleasure in giving a 1 rating to posts that even the moderators came out and cheered. I would hate to see this kind of thing happen here. This stuff needs to be nipped in the bud.
Been there, done that, forgot why!
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Garryfre wrote:
I fear the ratings sytem here
I don't really see the rating system to be all that bad. If the article generates enough interest it is essentially self correcting. Only on articles for subjects that are not of mainstream interest is is problematic because there may not be enough votes to overwhealm the disruptive individual.
Certainly, I feel I've improved because of the ratings system because some of my earlier articles were not rated as highly as I'd have liked. I looked for examples of highly rated articles to see what makes a good contribution and tried to learn from that.
But, back to forum postings, these rude idiots can be really hurtful, especially to someone who may make early mistakes but would be willing to correct them. I was lucky, with my first articles I had comments from people like Heath Stewart (who now works for Microsoft) who actually took time to correct any errors in the article.
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I don't say the rating system was a bad thing. I only related an experince about another url where a few could abuse the ratings system, and get away from it, and nobody cared.
I am glad that it is not so open to abuse as it was on that other URL where it was open to abuse because over there, the vast population at that URL were those that either never rated an article, and never paid attention to the ratings, and those who abused it as a griefing tool.
Been there, done that, forgot why!
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I can understand your anger, it is very disturbing to make so many efforts to make valuable articles (and yours certainly are) and get in return such abusive comments. However, I'm not sure any move is required to 'punish' the authors of such childish posts: by their behavior they exclude themselves from the community (and way, way beyond - some CPians are very influential in the IT field and elsewhere), they are the first victims of their abusive statements.
Fold with us!
Quote me as saying I was mis-quoted - Groucho Marx (1890-1977)
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Yeah, Chris Maunder actually told me the same thing, I am a slow learner when dealing with people sometimes. Thanks Karl, I appreciate your support and input. I wrote this right after a particular knuckle head started in with me, so I was kinda stiff. No problem, I am learning that negativity and smart-aleck-ness in blog time is usually hiding a small mind...Live and learn?
Chris Lasater
http://www.geocities.com/lasaterconsult
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How about separating VS.NET 2005 projects from all other versions of VS.NET, particularly where 2005 is "beta" code, exclusive of production versions, and not particularly well suited for release code (forget the "go live" krud)?
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Hopefully, the only VS2005 articles focus on VS2005 features, which means they are only of use to people using VS2005 already ?
fwsouthern wrote:
not particularly well suited for release code
Well, in fact you need to get a special licence from Microsoft before you're ALLOWED to release 2005 code into the wild, but overall, I haven't seen anything in 2005 that would make me think there were problems there.
Christian Graus - Microsoft MVP - C++
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You have much more confidence in MS and their new releases than I do, particularly where much of the inner workings either is not documented, incorrectly documented or not available except for internal use by MS.
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fwsouthern wrote:
You have much more confidence in MS and their new releases than I do
Perhaps - I can't judge that without knowing you better. However, it's more true that I have confidence in my own ability to write unit tests.
fwsouthern wrote:
inner workings either is not documented, incorrectly documented or not available except for internal use by MS.
Who cares about the inner workings, so long as the framework behaves as documented ? Isn't that what OO is all about ?
Christian Graus - Microsoft MVP - C++
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Fair comment, "so long as the framework behaves as documented" -- perhaps you could answer a question that MS cannot -- where is the documentation for IWMPVideoSettingsCtrl/WMPVideoSettingsCtrl and IWMPVideoSettingsCtrlClass/WMPVideoSettingsCtrlClass, why are these elements of WMPLib shown as having different attributes between C++, C#, J# and VB, and why is ProcAmp access to WMP10 in NET, although advertised as being available by MS, not available (except as shown in the object browser) except for "internal use by MS"?
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I have no idea - but I suggest you read my article on Direct Show in C# before you assume that I think everything Microsoft touches turns to gold.
I recently used the Windows Media Player control in C# for an app, because Direct Show for C# is so terrible in it's implimentation. However, it seems that is by design, it's not meant to be a complete implimentation, I suspect it's meant to be enough to load one video and put it on a texture.
Christian Graus - Microsoft MVP - C++
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These have nothing to do with DirectShow -- they are used for access to WMP10 ProcAmp functions by interfacing through a custom "skin" -- however, MS declines to provide any sample. If you check http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/wmplay10/mmp_sdk/usingskinswiththewindowsmediaplayercontrol.asp, you will find that a partial reference is made to this access but no sample, either here or in the SDK's. Because of the lack of DirectShow support in C#, I write all my DirectShow FilterGraphs in C++ (ugh -- wrapper) and the remainder of the programming in C#. While DirectShow does provide access to the ProcAmp, WMP10 access is not available.
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fwsouthern wrote:
These have nothing to do with DirectShow
Nor does WMP in general. My point was that I used WMP for an app because DirectShow is useless - i.e. I am happy to be critical if I think MS deserves it.
fwsouthern wrote:
Because of the lack of DirectShow support in C#,
Not true. It sucks, but it's there.
fwsouthern wrote:
I write all my DirectShow FilterGraphs in C++
Yeah, they are not there. Although DirectShow is a COM object, you could use them through COM, surely ?
Christian Graus - Microsoft MVP - C++
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DirectShow "useless" -- totally agree. Want to see a 3G P4 with 2G memory choke? Try using live & encoded video, sequentially accessed, transitions between videos, multiple VMR's (one for each of 3 screens) each with different mixed content (text and images), on live video, insert second video for hearing-impaired "signer", allow input cropping rectangle and output size and position adjustments, and for one customer, split a video stream between two display devices, oh yes, and cut the video latency for live video to minimum -- gives new meaning to "100% CPU utilization" and "frame drop".
DirectShow support in C# -- only if you want to Marshall the hell out of the interfaces, again without support of any kind from MS.
Use DirectShow in C# through COM -- Hi ho, hi ho, its Marshalling we go .....
While this is a little off-base from my original post, it has been quite lively. My original objective had something to do with draining the swamp ..... I just wanted a quicker way to scan articles on CodeProject and ignore VS.NET 2005 articles, most of which do not indicate the target in the article name, only in the text, or, in some cases, only when you try and run the sample code in VS.NET 2003 (no, I don't mind the converstion from 2002, etc, at least most of the time).
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How about multiple sigs that can be chosen or randomly attached at message writing time.
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I have added that feature to the SearchBar, but I've been lazy and haven't tracked down the 2 remaining bugs (which only show up in Maxthon) that I want to fix before doing an official release. Here's the link: clickety[^], if you use regular IE (not MyIE2/Maxthon) then I know of no outstanding bugs in the sigs feature.
--Mike--
Visual C++ MVP 
LINKS~! Ericahist | 1ClickPicGrabber | CP SearchBar v2.0.2 | C++ Forum FAQ
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Testimonial - I've used the signature features in Mike's BHO toolbar for CP and they're pretty cool 
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And for those of us who haven't downloaded the SearchBar? SOOL
I'm curious to know why the signature has a 500 char limitation since when you do an update to a posted message, the signature appears as part of the message instead of on its own again. Would it be easier to separate it from the message and add a database entry with a timestamp for every new signature that a user adds? This way, each message no longer has the signature added but gets it based on the timestamp of the message and what the signature was for that user during that time.
Might slow down the system a bit.
"If only one person knows the truth, it is still the truth." - Mahatma Gandhi Web - Blog - RSS
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If you're interested in using FireFox, i have a solution that allows multiple signatures of unlimited length (see my sig).
Of course, be kind to your low-bandwidth brethren.
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Unfortunately, IE is our substandard at work. 
"If only one person knows the truth, it is still the truth." - Mahatma Gandhi Web - Blog - RSS
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Mike's tool does not have a sig size limit.
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Code Project has been giving out that 'crunching sound' all morning, and it's always due to a problem retrieving an ad.
Is it possible to forego the error screen when it's just an ad retrieval?
Software Zen: delete this;
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I love to receive the newsletter, and i want to keep on receiving it (when i leave for another job).
So i changed the email address (under My Settings), to another one.
But but but, i keep on receiving the newsletters on the old address.
Hopefully some admin will pick up this message, cause no idea where to send it to.
thx,
Sub
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I checked your account and it's set to not receive newsletters at all.
For questions like this please use the contact email in the newsletter (webmaster@codeproject.com)
cheers,
Chris Maunder
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