Bugs and Suggestions

Re: Questioners not following up with what solved their problem.

31-May-12 13:14

ShaikhM wrote:
Blocking them from posting new questions in the forum unless they have attended
to the ones already asked by them.

I think it is not a bad idea but, on the other hand, it don't think it is that easy. Some thoughts about:

Many of the users that just throw the question and give no further feedback or comment or whatever are user that just don't come back. So that limit would not really bring a solution.

Now just the opposite, imagine questions made by "good" users that are not so easy and there are answers giving a guess or pointing out an idea, but none of the answers is really a solution. Then that users could have problems with that limit. Result... questions being marked as "solved" that doesn't really have a valid solution.

Or questions that are not answered by anyone, maybe because the tags are not set properly or whatever, then the lack of answers would be a problem for that user as well.

With a limit of (let's say 5, 10 or 15) questions without solution could do the trick without giving problems for a while to average users, but still giving the chance for random users to do the same as they are currently doing.

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ShaikhM31-May-12 17:35

ShaikhM

31-May-12 17:35

Ya makes sense in what you say. But a user that has built his reputation would rarely leave the question without following up. It is just the one timers that create this issue, resulting in heaps of multiple questions surrounding the same topic.

And as for this point "questions being marked as "solved" that doesn't really have a valid solution." I think it is not necessary to mark the solution as an answer, what i am talking about is atleast leave a note whether that solution was even tried or not. And if tried what happened. Leave it at that.

That will stop "one part" of the one timers from posting new questions as they might have already tried the solution that had a comment left on it.

Thanks
Maz

Re: Questioners not following up with what solved their problem.

Nelek31-May-12 21:39

31-May-12 21:39

Ok, you meant have any interaction in the answers part, not marking it as "solved".

I personally find it a good idea. Let's see what the admins say, if it is realistic or not.

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Mobile newsletter

Peter_in_278027-May-12 19:39

Peter_in_2780

27-May-12 19:39

Are we meant to get last Thurday's newsletter again, or did someone press the wrong button?
Hamsterburger now on special? Poke tongue | ;-P

Cheers,
Peter

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Re: Mobile newsletter

Sean Ewington28-May-12 5:06

Download any sample redirects back to article home.

28-May-12 5:06

Something went wrong, but we're still looking into precisely what. Our apologies. We will discover the secrets of the hamsterburger mystery meat.

Thanks,
Sean Ewington
The Code Project

symon-66627-May-12 18:56

symon-666

27-May-12 18:56

With message in top of page:
You have been redirected to the home of the file you requested to ensure you get the latest version of the file as specified by the article author.
But there're nothing pointing to other versions of files or the way to download.

Re: Download any sample redirects back to article home.

Chris Maunder27-May-12 19:45

Re: Download any sample redirects back to article home.

27-May-12 19:45

Which article are you looking at? What's the full URL?

cheers,
Chris Maunder

The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP

symon-66627-May-12 20:10

symon-666

27-May-12 20:10

Any article:
http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/274461/Very-fast-screen-capture-using-DirectX-in-Csharp
http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/364272/Easily-Add-a-Ribbon-Into-a-WinForms-Application-Cs

for last article:
going to download file "Download RibbonButtonAndShortcutKeys.zip", press link follow URL "http://www.codeproject.com/KB/tabs/364272/RibbonButtonAndShortcutKeys.zip"
loads page:
File Download
Downloading "RibbonButtonAndShortcutKeys.zip" from the article Easily Add a Ribbon Into a WinForms Application (C#). Please note that downloads for this article are governed by the The Microsoft Public License (Ms-PL). If the download doesn't start please click here.

But in 5 sec it redirects back to page with URL: "http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/364272/Easily-Add-a-Ribbon-Into-a-WinForms-Application-Cs?rp=/KB/tabs/364272/RibbonButtonAndShortcutKeys.zip"

Re: Download any sample redirects back to article home.

Chris Maunder28-May-12 11:21

Missing images from my tip/tricks published today

28-May-12 11:21

We've been trying to recreate this issue but it's working fine for us on all browsers, even when we logon as you. (don't worry - we don't know your password - we just get to see the site through the eyes of your account)

cheers,
Chris Maunder

The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP

Kamran Bilgrami27-May-12 15:55

Kamran Bilgrami

27-May-12 15:55

Today I published a tip/trick at Getting notifications upon your application writing an error to Events Log[^]. During preivew I was able to see all images. The tip was approved but none of the images are showing up. I am basically getting 404 on the images. Do I need to upload all images again or is there any other issues that could be addressed?

Thanks

modified 27-May-12 22:03pm.

Re: Missing images from my tip/tricks published today

Sean Ewington28-May-12 5:04

28-May-12 5:04

Hi Kamran,

Is that still what you see? The images show OK for me currently.

Thanks,
Sean Ewington
The Code Project

MySQL confusion.

Luc Pattyn27-May-12 3:41

Luc Pattyn

27-May-12 3:41

The MySQL forum keeps moving around. Currently there are two: the regular one under "Database and SysAdmin" (not always present in the left pane), and the composite "Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP" (which I consider rather silly as one does not need any of the other technologies to enjoy MySQL).

Confused | :confused:

Luc Pattyn [My Articles] Nil Volentibus Arduum

Re: MySQL confusion.

Chris Maunder28-May-12 11:28

Code tags content getting messy with strings

28-May-12 11:28

All fixed. I removed the MySQL forum to better direct readers to the LAMP stack forum.

cheers,
Chris Maunder

The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP

Nelek25-May-12 10:34

Re: Code tags content getting messy with strings

25-May-12 10:34

Hi,

first of all, sorry if it is a repost, but a quick search in bugs-forum didn't give me a result.

I have noticed that, when posting a code snippet containing "\\" makes the code-colours to get crazy because it doesn't count as ended string. It results on code (even containing key words) being violet and strings being black.

Example:

int dummy 1 = 0;
using whatever
string other = "First part " + "\\" + " from here on is messy" 
// and it doesn't matter what it comes later " 
// first after the next one we get the right colours another time

Regards.
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Sean Ewington28-May-12 12:25

Re: Code tags content getting messy with strings

28-May-12 12:25

Hi Nelek,

Thanks very much for the report. This is indeed a known bug. Try as we might, we have yet to defeat this one. Our apologies. That said, I believe some day inspiration will meet victory.

Thanks,
Sean Ewington
The Code Project

Nelek29-May-12 11:44

29-May-12 11:44

Sean Ewington wrote:
I believe some day inspiration will meet victory

For sure... just open a 6 pack and you will notice the world is not so bad as it seems Poke tongue | ;-P

cheers

Regards.
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Account not active

Wendelius25-May-12 10:29

Wendelius

25-May-12 10:29

Just noticed a (good) answer from a platinum member, but the account is not active??? If this is intentional then everything is ok, just wondering if it's some kind of problem...

The answer: Add values to a list contains a Lookup Field[^]

Re: Account not active

Brisingr Aerowing25-May-12 10:59

Brisingr Aerowing

25-May-12 10:59

That's an odd one!

public class SysAdmin : Employee
{

     public override void DoWork(IWorkItem workItem)
     {
          if (workItem.User.Type == UserType.NoLearn){
             throw new NoIWillNotFixYourComputerException(new Luser(workItem.User));
          }else{
               base.DoWork(workItem);
          }
     }

}

Re: Account not active

Chris Maunder25-May-12 11:47

Thou mewling ill-breeding pignut!

25-May-12 11:47

A member is taking a break.

cheers,
Chris Maunder

The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP

Re: Account not active

AspDotNetDev25-May-12 11:54

AspDotNetDev

25-May-12 11:54

Ah, so you've finally implemented a self-help feature that allows people to disable their account for a few weeks while they battle Code Project addiction?

Tip/Trick Alternate Weirdness

AspDotNetDev25-May-12 7:07

AspDotNetDev

25-May-12 7:07

See this: can you help me quickly in this question?. That was posted by me. It is showing up as an alternate to a tip/trick I deleted. I'm not sure why it's showing as an alternate. I think I posted it as a message or comment originally (or maybe I accidentally posted it as an alternate... not sure).

If it was just that I posted it as an alternate, let me know and I'll delete it. However, I don't remember doing that, so it may be a bug.

Thou mewling ill-breeding pignut!

Re: Tip/Trick Alternate Weirdness

Sean Ewington25-May-12 8:02

Re: Tip/Trick Alternate Weirdness

25-May-12 8:02

Thanks very much for reporting this. It's an odd case, but at least one issue here is that protectors and other such users shouldn't be able to have the alternatives to a deleted item.

Thanks,
Sean Ewington
The Code Project

Chris Maunder25-May-12 11:52