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.. or maybe a seperate "friend of CP" level or something.
I'd love to help the site out, but don't really want to spend a good chunk of my monthly salary on VS.NET (I'm only a poor programmer!) - especially as the amount of C++ programming I do in my own time is fairly minimal
However, I would be happy to give a £10ish donation, and I'm sure plenty of other people would do to, if there was an easy method to do so
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If it's still through cafepress, then CodeProject only get a tiny proportion of the money paid (only a few dollars, depending on how much markup they set). I'd rather send them $14 dollars directly, than buy a CP tshirt and them only recieve a dollar
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benjymous wrote:
£10ish donation
That soundz awfully cheap,
add a zero.
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.
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I'd second that.
There must be a lot of us who want to contribute to CP to keep it up and running, but can't be buying the MS products (cause work provides them, etc., etc.). But we have to be careful not to make it look like a membership fee - one of the reasons CP is so popular is because it's coders helping coders for free.
benjymous wrote:
I would be happy to give a £10ish donation
Spot on! A little 'donation' button would be perfect 
Dylan Kenneally
London, UK
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I suppose this has been asked before, but what the heck. What about an e-mail notification when a bookmarked article is modified? When you use codeproject code on your production environment you want to be sure to have the latest version!
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I hope you didn't forget to let the Author know that you 'like' his/her code! 
VOTD: 27 "Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this:
to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world." - Jam 1:27 (NIV)
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I would love to see a web service for the search utility in CP. Then we could integrate that with VS.NET's help (if that's possible).
Wouldn't it be cool to enter a function like SHBrowseForFolder, or RegQueryValue and get relevant CP articles directly from VS.NET? 
Jason Henderson
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"Like it or not, I'm right!"
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Jason Henderson wrote:
Then we could integrate that with VS.NET's help (if that's possible).
I don't know about putting it in the help portion, but you can put it in VS.NET, I have already thought of this idea and have designed the interface in C#, however I would love to see the web service to interface to. 
Nick Parker
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I had exactly the same thought a while ago (whilst chatting with another CPian by MSN), in the end I did start looking around at creating a VS.NET add-in but never took it any further.
It'd be really neat to be able to use CodeProject in such a way!
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Paul
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Tomorrow ,Aug 15th is the Indian Independence day.So can we see Bob draped in Indian Tricolour!![^]
Regards
Agnihothra
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Roger Wright wrote:
charming a Cobra in a basket, would really match more closely my expectations...
Yeah!! Those are the cliches that were first started by the likes of Rudyard Kipling but they arent true anymore just like the cowboys and injuns styuff that we used to hear about the States.India is a rapidly developing modern society though we have our Achilles heels like huge population ,Poverty and corrupt politicians.....
Regards Agnihothra
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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
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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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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
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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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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
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"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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