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We've had this policy from day 1 and it's this policy that has ensured that the code you download from all the articles posted here is code you can use immediately. Over the years we've seen companies posting articles on their own product purely for the sake of getting free advertising, and it's not been the big, well-known, high quality companies but the smaller we-a-low-budget-and-even-lower-morals companies.
If we opened it up then
a) We defeat our original vision of providing the best repository for free code. Why post free code when you can post an article on your commercial product?
b) Make it harder for members to sift through the articles to find solutions that they can use. We do have paid articles from companies we know and trust but we mark these very clearly. If, each time you do a search on CodeProject, you have the thought "I'm probably only going to find articles on things I have to buy" then you're less likely to bother coming here.
c) We devalue the official paid placements from our sponsors. We provide CodeProject for free but someone, somewhere, has to pay the bills. We're proud to offer a service where companies can provide paid articles. Since we have so few of them they provide a greater impact for our sponsors, and since they are all from companies we know and respect, they provide our readers with in-depth and useful information on paid alternatives.
Opening up to commercial articles sounds like a nice, simple idea but it has consequences that, if not handled very, very carefully, would change the flavour of CodeProject, and not in a good way.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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I clearly do understand your point of view...
Are the other telerik articles paid articles? Search just for the term "telerik" and you will find many articles like the small thing i wrote...
And as Kunal_Chowdhury describes in his article
Working with BusyIndicator of Telerik Silverlight RadControls[^]
there is a free trial version of the telerik libs too, meaning that one can test the code without buying anything....
Anyway, as I said, I do understand what you are meaning and I will post third party articles not on CP anymore...
Cheers,
Christian Kleinheinz
From Visions to Solutions
MasterSoft
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Same for me. If CP is staying on that decision, I will not post anymore 3rd party controls article here from now. Also assuming that, those previous articles will not delete from here.
One more query to Chris, what if anyone feed a blog post which says about 3rd party controls? Will that case be taken care too?
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Blog articles must also follow the submission guidelines.
I know this is difficult and frustrating so thanks for being supportive and understanding. We wish the world worked differently some days.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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It's a bad day for me that some of my articles have been removed because of that issue. I obey the rules of CP and can't do anything more for that. I will ensure that, I will not post any article on 3rd party controls from now. Have no other choice than that. 
Will request my readers to follow my blog in such case.
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Sorry for waking up the sleeping dog  But at least CP is fair to the community...
Christian Kleinheinz
From Visions to Solutions
MasterSoft
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Waking up the dog again?
Anyway, anyone who is interested in the RadMessageBox article can find the article here[^].
I will publish articles about 3rd party libs there.
@Chris: Is it ok when I do add the link to my personal CP blog?
Christian Kleinheinz
From Visions to Solutions
MasterSoft
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Hi Kunal,
I have gone through and removed the articles on the list that require third party components.
Unfortunately until we can think of a system that considers and effectively deals with every possibility no article that directly requires third party components can remain. If you or other members find any more, please let us know.
The ideal is to allow and reward authors like yourself who only seek to help other developers with coding problems, but as previously discussed it is a tricky proposition that we do not have a solution for 'yet.'
Thanks,
Sean Ewington
The Code Project
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I reckon I can fix that 
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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Thx for the fast response and the articles re-activation
cy
Christian Kleinheinz
From Visions to Solutions
MasterSoft
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I just posted a comment with some HTML, and it actually treated it as HTML rather than encoding it. I'm guessing this behavior is intentional, although it was not expected. I had no way of knowing that the HTML would not be encoded as it used to be. Perhaps it's time comments got previews? Or maybe not... it was easy enough to edit my comment after I posted it to correct it.
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And comments need to be very serious, only Asian smiles are allowed.
(o.o)
Luc Pattyn [Forum Guidelines] [My Articles] Nil Volentibus Arduum
Please use <PRE> tags for code snippets, they preserve indentation, improve readability, and make me actually look at the code.
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Luc Pattyn wrote: (o.o)
Woah! 
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I'm afraid you misread...
(@_@)
Luc Pattyn [Forum Guidelines] [My Articles] Nil Volentibus Arduum
Please use <PRE> tags for code snippets, they preserve indentation, improve readability, and make me actually look at the code.
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First you guys don't want HTML, then you do, then it's all bad. Sheesh! 
How about a "Encode HTML tags" checkbox?
Or better still: A check box with whatever wording you feel is best.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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Chris Maunder wrote: A check box with whatever wording you feel is best.
My choice: [] Do what I want, dammit! 
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The System.MindReading namespace is still in beta and heard the GetUserWishes(DateTime.Now) is unstable due to constant and unpredictable changes in sampling data. I think the biggest problem they are having is getting consistent, non-conflicting and repeatable data.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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Sir, we don't need The System.MindReading namespace nor the GetUserWishes(DateTime.Now) we just want to stop using < and her sister >.
is this a dreem, sir.
Help people,so poeple can help you.
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So then what about those who asked to be allowed to include links? Or bold?
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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don't listen to them.
Help people,so poeple can help you.
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As a consequence of another thread (two down from here) I decided to update my TT on PRE tags. only to (re)discover a bunch of issues which I will list shortly:
1. title length checks, just silly.
2. vertical spacing seems arbitrary; how can I get the first paragraph closer to its title, and consistently so?
3. HTML tags inside PRE: bold "works" and is hardly noticeable, italics does nothing, underline shows its tags. This has been better before.
4. without lang="text" even the HTML-escape snippet would show odd coloring for no apparent reason.
5. forums show some icon next to the author, Q&A lists total rep points, however articles and TT don't do any such thing, just a plain author name. why?
Luc Pattyn [Forum Guidelines] [My Articles] Nil Volentibus Arduum
Please use <PRE> tags for code snippets, they preserve indentation, improve readability, and make me actually look at the code.
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Luc Pattyn wrote: underline shows its tags
I see you beat me to this. 
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Yeah, I've been called Greased Lightning earlier today.
Luc Pattyn [Forum Guidelines] [My Articles] Nil Volentibus Arduum
Please use <PRE> tags for code snippets, they preserve indentation, improve readability, and make me actually look at the code.
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