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Clearly WCF, WPF, WF are different but they were lumped under the same forum at the beginning because, well, probably because they were all new, all little known, and all had a WTF acronym. Clearly it stime they all agreed to just be friends and move on.
I know WPF and Silverlight are not the same - but they share a pedigree, and Silverlight did used to be called WPF/E, so I figured with the traffic they get combining makes sense.
Would splitting WPF/Silverlight be more valuable given that the split fora will get less traffic and I'd porbably remove one from the dropdown menu?
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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I think they should all be separated. In fact, I think that someone who wants to post a question should be made to go through a wizard (like article submissions) that asks them to idientify the question category via the careful selection of a few checkboxes, and then allows them to post the question, after which, it is applied to the appropriate section of the web site.
I have an idea on how to implement it, but it would take too long to describe it in detail in a message. Painting with broad strokes, the wizard would be a cascading series of actions or placeholders that are made visible depending on what was selected in the previous panel. The user would ultimately be permitted to actualy enter a message, and that message would be placed according to how he progressed through the wiard. That would ensure that the question was posted in the most approrpiate place on the site. This would only apply to programming forums and quick answers.
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The wizard idea is something we've talked about for QA. However, if it's all simple enough then a single page with a simple form should be good enough as long as we have sufficient checks in place.
An option for the forums that I started work on then abandoned in favour of QA was to have forum messages tagged as they are in Quick Answers. There would only be a single forum, but with each message taqged you could create partitions or views where you only see the topics you are interested in.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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Chris Maunder wrote: Would splitting WPF/Silverlight be more valuable given that the split fora
I'd prefer a split but not because of the traffic - just because they are separate technologies.
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You misunderstand me Chris. I'm talking about moving the WPF content into the said forum. Currently the Silverlight/WPF forum only contains Silverlight questions - the WPF/*?* forum was merely renamed and contains the actual WPF content. It's going to make searching for answers problematic for users.
"WPF has many lovers. It's a veritable porn star!" - Josh Smith As Braveheart once said, "You can take our freedom but you'll never take our Hobnobs!" - Martin Hughes.
My blog | My articles | MoXAML PowerToys | Onyx
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Ah, yes. You noticed that particular largish pachyderm in the room.
Let me get coffee. Never let me near the database for custom work without coffee.
(and yes, I know Brycey would say "that sentence has 5 superfluous words at the end")
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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Chris Maunder wrote: I know Brycey would say "that sentence has 5 superfluous words at the end")
"WPF has many lovers. It's a veritable porn star!" - Josh Smith As Braveheart once said, "You can take our freedom but you'll never take our Hobnobs!" - Martin Hughes.
My blog | My articles | MoXAML PowerToys | Onyx
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green menu Articles/Chapters and Sections/C#, after churning away some 10 seconds, presents a long list (a count would be nice!) of articles sorted by Score, with a header line suggesting it is sortable also by title, update date, and author. Alas it isn't.
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Hi Chris,
Just came across a Question posted by this OP[^].
I deleted the thread[^], but based on the discussion, you might think of taking some action.
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Great idea, adding the Chinese and Hindi forums! We're going international - WOOT!
Good job, for what it's worth from one of the charter denizens. I heartily approve!
"A Journey of a Thousand Rest Stops Begins with a Single Movement"
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Can you add this in the forum guidelines:
Understand that Hindi/Chinese isn't everyone's first language so be lenient of bad spelling and grammar.
 
..Go Green..
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That's only fair...
"A Journey of a Thousand Rest Stops Begins with a Single Movement"
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....CP is not the same anymore.
You see Hindi and Chinese forums ( ).
This is a good move.
Silverlight and WPF forums are clubbed together now ( ).
I feel that these should be separate forums now - considering Microsoft is now going to leverage both these technologies (and not Win Forms which has a separate forum anyway).
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Hi,
I've used Thunderbird for reading the articles for years and about a month or so ago the html rendering in the Thunderbird reader pane has become huge [http://www.aquarius.com.au/tbird.jpg]
Has anyone discovered how to reduce it back to 'normal'?
Glen Harvy
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Click the 'Full Site' link at the top left.
Our Mobile device browser file we use is completely unreliable. I think it's time to pull it. Pity, since it's open source, comprehensive, and the only thing that seems to have active participation in updating.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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That sort of defeats the purpose really of the Thunderbird Newsreader.
I liked the ability to read the first paragraph or two and then scroll down and read the whole article if it interests me. If it grabbed my attention I would then open the page in the browser window.
Clicking "Full Site" opens yet another browser window/tab which I then need to close and then repeat this process for each item - the majority of which don't interest me.
This behaviour only started a month or so ago so somewhere, someone has changed something and as far as I can tell it is most likely a Thunderbird issue.
Glen Harvy
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Shouldn't the new forums have posting guidelines associated with them?
"WPF has many lovers. It's a veritable porn star!" - Josh Smith As Braveheart once said, "You can take our freedom but you'll never take our Hobnobs!" - Martin Hughes.
My blog | My articles | MoXAML PowerToys | Onyx
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aye canna go any faster, Cap'n
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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Why would it matter? It doesn't seem to help the native English speakers....
.45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly
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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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"The staggering layers of obscenity in your statement make it a work of art on so many levels." - J. Jystad, 2001
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Well, lets say... it helps 10/100 people posting stuff.
I think, We should think of those 10 who follows them instead of those 90 who don't!
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But they're kinda hard to find, IMO. Would it work like this? I have my doubts.
Also, there are sometimes those weird posts in what I guess might be Arabic, maybe they could use their own forum as well..
Good move though
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I would have thought that they should actually be in the General Programming section by default.
"WPF has many lovers. It's a veritable porn star!" - Josh Smith As Braveheart once said, "You can take our freedom but you'll never take our Hobnobs!" - Martin Hughes.
My blog | My articles | MoXAML PowerToys | Onyx
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That would make sense, the subforums themselves the are called "General Programming", so why should they be in General Discussions?
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I pointed out to #1 that he better employ more hamsters, those two languages opens CP to 2.5 Billion people.
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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
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Dalek Dave wrote: opens CP to 2.5 Billion people.
If this idea clicks, you'd need more than just a handful of moderators on those forums.
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