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Please consider adding filtering for forum/article searches. It makes it kind of hard to find a C++ solution when you have to wade through 500 C# articles that contain the same search term 
Todd Smith
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An Advanced Search page with checkboxes would be ideal
Search: blah
check areas to search:
[ ] .NET
[x] MFC Controls
[x] General
[x] Libraries
[x] Multimedia
[x] Platforms
[ ] Web/Scripting
[ ] C# Windows Forms
[ ] General C#
[GO]
if it also saved this info in a cookie that would be cool.
Todd Smith
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Good idea.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
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There are lots of articles with no text or explanation entering in CP these days... Lots of people are posting code and don´t explain how it works, how it was implemented, what difficults they found. Maybe a restriction on the minimum amount of text for an article (2 kbytes or something) would improve the quality of the articles (forcing the new author to write a little more).
Mauricio Ritter - Brazil
Sonorking now: 100.13560 Trank
![Beer | [beer]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/beer.gif) The alcohol is one of the greatest enemys of man, but a man who flee from his enemys is a coward.
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I very much hope it has been deleted, but there *was* an article posted a while back with something like 2 actual sentences in it, the rest consisting of some bit of text pasted over and over again to make it meet whatever the minimum article size is now...
... if someone really doesn't care, they'll find a way i guess.
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Shog9
If I could sleep forever, I could forget about everything...
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I'm sick of those too.
Maybe if a vote option were added to "Request an Edit of this Article" for all Unedited Reader contributions. Then Chris or another editor can tell this person to add more or it will be deleted.
What do you think?
Jason Henderson
quasi-homepage
articles
"Like it or not, I'm right!"
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I'd rather have a article with little explanation but some code rather than no article at all and if you are really confused about something you could always ask in the forums.
-Raffi
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Raffi wrote:
if you are really confused about something you could always ask in the forums.
Well, yeah, but that's supposed to be the point of an article - not just *how* you do it, but *why* you're doing it that way. Believe me, without the second bit, your code is going to break badly sooner or later, & you'll just be guessing as to where or why. There are plenty of sites with just code (*cough* *cough* earthweb *cough*) around already.
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Shog9
If I could sleep forever, I could forget about everything...
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I don't think it is asking to much if the editors or users of CP would like you to write better articles. It doesn't take that much effort.
IMO, Good articles are what makes CP better than CodeGuru and any other code repository on the web.
Jason Henderson
quasi-homepage
articles
"Like it or not, I'm right!"
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Jason Henderson wrote:
IMO, Good articles are what makes CP better than CodeGuru and any other code repository on the web.
I'll second that 
James
"And we are all men; apart from the females." - Colin Davies
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You're asking too much mate.
Never forget that users either want to learn something, or just rip the code (copy/paste), or forward it to someone else, or even (as I shamely do) sometimes browse the articles telling myself that there must be an interest of doing just this!
Because you don't know the kind of user you are facing, you IMHO cannot really ask for better articles. And please don't answer back asking CP editors to add CRM or other cookie-tracking. Nuke!
Though of course better articles may serve as a general purpose, browsability of the wealth of articles is just as important to me,
And I swallow a small raisin.
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If an artical doesn't have and explanation etc it normally won't get entered into the main sections of CP. Unless it's really bad it will probably be lef tin the unedited section so that the author can update it.
"When a friend hurts us, we should write it down in the sand, where the winds of forgiveness get in charge of erasing it away, and when something great happens, we should engrave it in the stone of the memory of the heart, where no wind can erase it" Nish on life [methinks]
"It's The Soapbox; topics are optional" Shog 9
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Just think it might be a good idea to put Student as an option in the 'Occupation' section of the Profile... It's not exactly an occupation per se but I'm sure a lot of CP members are Students.
Also... is it possible to see a spread of the occupations... perhaps on the demographics page.
"When a friend hurts us, we should write it down in the sand, where the winds of forgiveness get in charge of erasing it away, and when something great happens, we should engrave it in the stone of the memory of the heart, where no wind can erase it" Nish on life [methinks]
"It's The Soapbox; topics are optional" Shog 9
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I think being a student is an occupation; even if it isn't a paid occupation;
Students are occupied partying; protesting; and doing fun stuff.
Regardz
Colin J Davies
Sonork ID 100.9197:Colin
You are the intrepid one, always willing to leap into the fray! A serious character flaw, I might add, but entertaining.
Said by Roger Wright about me.
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Colin^Davies wrote:
Students are occupied partying; protesting; and doing fun stuff.
I do the partying and having fun bits but I'm normally too tired or hungover to do any protesting.. and it always rains here in Ireland when the protests are on, so I just stay in bed and leave it to the more enthuastic students to do that 
"When a friend hurts us, we should write it down in the sand, where the winds of forgiveness get in charge of erasing it away, and when something great happens, we should engrave it in the stone of the memory of the heart, where no wind can erase it" Nish on life [methinks]
"It's The Soapbox; topics are optional" Shog 9
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agreed... even not beign a student anymore
Mauricio Ritter - Brazil
Sonorking now: 100.13560 MRitter
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Your articles have been edited. You'll need to send the updates in to CP & let your editor update them. (See far bottom left of article page for editor)
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Shog9
If I could sleep forever, I could forget about everything...
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Noooo - please send all updates to submit@codeproject.com
cheers,
Chris Maunder
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Oh... er, sorry. 
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Shog9
If I could sleep forever, I could forget about everything...
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Heh I like it ! w00t
How about somehow reincorporate the most helpful with it.
But only those that have helped can vote that it was helpful.
And of course stop multi-voting or over voting depending on your helpfulness status.
Regardz
Colin J Davies
Sonork ID 100.9197:Colin
You are the intrepid one, always willing to leap into the fray! A serious character flaw, I might add, but entertaining.
Said by Roger Wright about me.
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If there is not a space before ; P like this;P it does not display an emoticon but it will display with a space 
This a appears to be the only emoticon with this problem.
Sorry to be a bother
- Matt Newman / Windows XP Activist
-Sonork ID: 100.11179
"You can't seriously believe that you could get away with suing someone over quoting text from a message posted in a public forum, can you?" - John Simmons
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Some emoticons have restrictions like that so that code comes out properly. For example if you write CMyView::DoStuff you don't want the colon-D part showing up as
--Mike--
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