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Perhaps I am missing the obvious, but there used to be a collection of articles and other helpful hints on how to actually write an article off line (and online for that matter) and submit it. I can no longer find much of anything along these lines.
It seems to me that there should be an obvious link on the CP homepage to all the currently recommended methods/techniques etc.
At this point, I just want to write some stuff that may turn into an article and not have too many problems in reformatting etc if and when I decide it is worth submitting.
If I remember correctly, this info was never too easy to find and was, for the most part a bunch of sticky posting in the Article Writing forum.
Consider this a suggestion and a question -- where do I go from here, and why do I need to ask the question?
Jim Parsells
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I think you're right - there used to be a link somewhere, but I can't find it.
Anyway, here's a link to Marc Clifton's article A Guide To Writing Articles For Code Project.
The other thing I would recommend is the free HTML-Kit HTML editor. Whatever you do, don't rely on the CP article editor to do real-time article editing; it sometimes hiccups, and you lose all your work. What I do is write the article offline using HTML-Kit, and then paste it into the article editor when I'm ready to submit; click on Articles > Submit an Article on the green menu bar to get to the Article Submission Wizard. HTH.
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Hans,
Thanks for the reply. I re-found Marc Clifton's excellent article shortly after I posted my message. I knew it was there, but forgot (after a few years since I last looked at it) the author and title. I was actually wondering if there were some newer proceedures and recommendations. It appears not, though the Submission Guidelines and template have changed a bit since I last looked.
I also do my authoring offline. I use the Visual Studio editor because I am used to it and it is easy to flip back and forth between the article and the code.
As far as my "howto" question, I am good to go. I do continue to think it strange that it is not obvious how to get to this material from the home page.
Thanks,
Jim
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I find a lot of parallels between writing code and writing articles. Like code, if I see an article format or HTML trick I really like, I "view source" and shamelessly rip it off. 
What's your article on?
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We're updating the links and adding links to the main submission pages to make this easier. Thanks for pointing this out.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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An HTML collision of some sort perhaps.
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All cleaned up.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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A friend is having some trouble with recovering his password.
The email address is correct (he gets the newsletters) but the
captcha image verification seems to fail no matter what he puts in.
I tried this with my own account and the verification fails for me
as well. Any advice?
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It seems that sometimes a server (or your current session) gets a little messed up. Just wait a little and try again and it should be fine. I know - annoying answer but I've had no luck trying to replicate the issue since it's so rare.
Actually - let me send you your password for you.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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It's working now, thanks!
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Is it possible to add a sort by article search so you can order by date, name , author, rank and anything else?
Thanks
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Our search is specifically a "relevancy" search so ordering by these things within the search doesn't always make sense. An article can be vaguely, tenuously related to the search term, but brand new, and so will appear first. That's not really helpful.
The Latest list[^] and Most popular[^] lists may help.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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Hi Chris,
I am in favor of a search and list system where the same criteria that can be used for selection also can be used for sorting (conceptually similar to a table that can sort on every column).
Relevancy is great when looking for information about some subject (e.g. I want to learn about WPF), less so when looking for a specific item (the highly-specialized WPF article I read a few days ago of which I think I remember the publication month/the author/...). Having the results ordered by such criteria would ease scanning the search results.
AFAIK the easiest one to offer would be "ordered by recency".
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What your saying is true but take for example I want to look up XNA and for the more recent stuff that is for VS2008 and XNA 3.0 ( I think, I'm still new to XNA and want to explore and look at it for fun hence why trying to find an article on it). Searching for XNA the results bring up from 2007 and for XNA 1. If I could then order by date I can find the most recent stuff and hopefully it will apply to 3.0 and VS2008.
modified on Thursday, April 23, 2009 8:20 AM
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Sorry if this seems like a noob question. If you submit a blog post entry and then try and modify it, you are not able to upload zip files to accompany the article (at least not that I can tell). Is this by design?
Thanks
Why is common sense not common?
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It is by design at the moment. Allowing zips and images for Technical blog entries to be hosted on CodeProject is something we debated internally, with the thought being that these items will already be hosted elsewhere.
However, if it's something that you feel is needed then we'll do it.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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Chris Maunder wrote: if it's something that you feel is needed
Thanks Chris. Sacha was commenting on my entry that the code should be hosted here and I just couldn't see a way to do that. No worries.
Why is common sense not common?
Never argue with an idiot. They will drag you down to their level where they are an expert.
Sometimes it takes a lot of work to be lazy
Individuality is fine, as long as we do it together - F. Burns
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We'll add uploading of files for blogs. It's turning out to be slightly (and surprisingly and annoyingly) tricky, but give us a day or so.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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Chris Maunder wrote: annoyingly
 Of course.... As you said the files are hosted elsewhere already so personally I wouldn't bother.
But thanks Chris!
Why is common sense not common?
Never argue with an idiot. They will drag you down to their level where they are an expert.
Sometimes it takes a lot of work to be lazy
Individuality is fine, as long as we do it together - F. Burns
Help humanity, join the CodeProject grid computing team here
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How long has this been around?
This message is very long. Long messages increase download times for those with slow connections. Are you sure you want to post a message this long?
Today's lesson is brought to you by the word "niggardly". Remember kids, don't attribute to racism what can be explained by Scandinavian language roots.
-- Robert Royall
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Approximately forever
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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Odd. I thought I'd been more long winded than that before, but don't recall seeing it before.
Today's lesson is brought to you by the word "niggardly". Remember kids, don't attribute to racism what can be explained by Scandinavian language roots.
-- Robert Royall
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Dear friends of CodeProject staff,
I have a question about article competition and about prize assignments.
In march I published the DataGridView Filter Popup[^] article which received good responses from other CodeProject users.
The latest newsletter announces the winners of march. I agree with the choice of the Perceptor: An artificially intelligent guided navigation system for WPF[^] article as best overall article, but I don't agree with the choice of the Multi Remote Desktop Client .NET[^] as the best c# article.
Of course I always appreciate who share something with others but I think that the proposed code is substantially a wapper around a preexisting activex control and that the article content is very laconic.
I am quite disappointed and I would know which are the rules applied in designating the "best" article. I just realized that the rating and popularity indicators don't matter. Nor it doesn't matter if the article proposes an original solution and if it contains a comprehensive explanation.
I share my code because I like to think I've done something useful to others and to learn from others. I think everyone is encouraged to do more and better when he or she receives positive feedbacks. The others appreciations is fundamental and a prize is a kind of formal appreciation about the done work.
Considering that every competition provides its rules, I don't understand why you don't make public your rules.
Morever, I don't understand why you don't write the reasons that brought to award an article.
Thank you very much
V.R.
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Winners are chosen by the readers, not by us. I've updated the rules on the Monthly comp page[^] to make this clearer (they should appear in half an hour or so)
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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