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We are looking for people to contribute more articles on Managed C++, VC++ .NET, general .NET Framework usage, and more. If you've been working with these, consider contributing an article to the CodeGuru.com site.

Be aware that we can add new categories to the .NET section if needed.

You can find submission guidelines at:

http://www.codeguru.com/SubmissionsGuidelines.html.

You can see the current site for topics that have already been covered. If you are not sure about a topic, drop me a PM or e-mail.

We are always interested in C++ and VC++ articles as well. Just be sure to check the site for existing articles, before taking the time to write on a topic.

Thanks!

Brad!
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I posted a super article 3 days ago ! Didn`t appear ....
Why don`t you make a submission wizard like codeproject !

These are my articles :

http://www.codeproject.com/script/Ar...p?userid=47637

don`t they deserve to be posted here ?!?!

We are currently in the process of spec'ing out a redesign of the site that will hopefully include an automated submission process.

Part of the reason our articles are delayed in getting posted is that we have a grammatical editor on staff who goes through all of the articles before they are posted. There is no problem with posting articles to both sites as long as you submit them through the appropriate submission processes.

You should have received a response stating that your article was received. You'll receive a second response when it is posted. If you didn't receive the first response, drop me an e-mail or PM.

Brad
[email protected]

Hello, I've tried to submit an article and I cannot download the template...

There is not a downloadable version of the template; however, you can easily hightlight, copy, and paste the template on the submissions page:

http://www.codeguru.com/SubmissionsGuidelines.html

I'll see what I can do to add a downloadable version in the near future.

Brad!

Hello, Brad:
I have a suggestion, make a rating bar in each article (for readers to vote), so after some time, there is a good standard that you can remove the low-quality articles. I am really sorry that in your arrangement (in Mid of 2001 ?), some articles disappeared in codeguru, including some good ones...


Best Regards,

Jeff

Maybe more people would submit articles if your mail server would accept thier emails.

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It has been like this for over a month. I posted a topic in the general dicussion regarding this but it was just ignored.

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Originally posted by mwilliamson
It has been like this for over a month. I posted a topic in the general dicussion regarding this but it was just ignored.

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Well...just an advice...anything in regard to the forums or submission process should be posted to the Feedback forum rather than the general discussion forum.

I doubt that the administrators will always read the other forums that closely...

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I am really sorry that in your arrangement (in Mid of 2001 ?), some articles disappeared in codeguru, including some good ones...

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Since I have been involved with CodeGuru at a hands-on level, I'm not aware of articles disappearing. If you can give me an idea of what articles those are, that would be great. I'd like to track them down if that is possible.

I do know that just before I took over the daily, hands-on operation of the site, that a number of articles that were linked to special indexes were pushed out into the categories of the site. These special index pages disappeared before I stepped in.

I oversee a few other sites including Developer.com. The end of last year we updated Developer.com and cleaned that site up. Those changes included linking Developer.com closer to these (CodeGuru's) forums. This year (now) I am working on a plan to overhaul CodeGuru.

My plan that I am building will include article ratings and more. I agree that there needs to be a way for people to rate an article so that the great articles and "float to the top." I also would like to see the great gurus within the article contributers float to the top as well.

The plan also contains many of the suggestions that people have suggested. A number of people have sent private messages in e-mails ([email protected]) with great suggestions for the CodeGuru site. I'm working to incorporate a lot of this into my proposal.

Again, if you can give a more specific idea of some of the articles that have disappeared, that would be appreciated.

Brad!

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As Andreas mentioned, I cannot read every forum every day. I do, however, check the Feedback forum very, very regularly as well as check private messages. In fact, I'm notified of postings in both.

I also have posted both of my e-mail addresses on the forums in several messages --

[email protected]
[email protected]

The moderators also know how to contact me. A few even have my personal MSN IM address and can contact me near instantly.

The problem with e-mails that don't get through is that the "receiver" never knows they were sent. Thanks for reposting the info here. This is a critical issue that I'll have someone look into immediately.

Brad!

heya brad,
there are 2 progs regarding codeguru's site.
1. no submission wizards (but u said it is being worked on..so i will w8) - i update my articles often and its slowly via the email
2. i cannot reply to ppl's commets on my articles (always gives 'Fatal Error: Don't know what happened')

i like codeguru's forum very much, thus the site needs alittle fixups
at least this is my opinion

< this thread is way off topic; however, I'm going to let it continue. >

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1. no submission wizards

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A "submission Wizard" is a big item on the proposed enhancements.

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This is something that we've been addressing with the network administrator since CodeGuru was shifted to a new server a couple of weeks ago. Individual articles were being fixed, rather than addressing the bigger issue.

Earlier today, we got the admin to take a step back and look at the bigger picture. I've been told that they've resent the permissions across the site, plus we've changed our utilities to maintain file attributes.

Bottom line, you should now be able to post comments on the articles (including responses). If anyone is still having trouble with comments on an article, send me an e-mail with the article's URL. This should, however, be resolved.

Brad!

This thread has been unstuck so that it doesn't take up the top of this forum any longer.

Brad

Does that mean that your email server has been fixed?

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Originally posted by Brad Jones
Since I have been involved with CodeGuru at a hands-on level, I'm not aware of articles disappearing. If you can give me an idea of what articles those are, that would be great. I'd like to track them down if that is possible.
Brad!

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I've noticed it too, not much but a couple of times. Most notibly
for me is some code that is now CodeJock ! Why let some people
post their articles and code here so it can get QA'd then remove it
so they can sell it. Well, that ticked me off :D
Did codeguru get anything in return for agreeing to remove the
articles and code ? I'm trying to find it now, hope I didn't mean
codeproject instead :rolleyes:

http://www.codeguru.com/advancedui/c...tudio_ui.shtml

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I've noticed it too, not much but a couple of times. Most notibly
for me is some code that is now CodeJock ! Why let some people
post their articles and code here so it can get QA'd then remove it
so they can sell it. Well, that ticked me off
Did codeguru get anything in return for agreeing to remove the
articles and code ? I'm trying to find it now, hope I didn't mean
codeproject instead

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Right. This is considered a form of advertising! :eek:
In the past, BCGControlBar was free too, but about 2 years ago, it became commercial and aye....it got the free advertising.

Maybe all article contributors gotta sign a life-or-death pledge or permanant alliance never to make their articles/code/libraries/controls/tools go commercial once they're in CodeGuru.

Also, I would like to suggest to Brad that a li'l section whereby we can post all kinda articles be setup. Like girls to chicken chop and such. This way, CodeGuru gets more advertising revenue from everywhere from all walks of life, and is not limited to a particular group.

The bottomline : Everyone Wins. :cool::cool::cool:

That's right; free advertising, free QA, free everything
Well, now its three hunderd bucks :eek:

Soooo pfffftttthhhh on code jock !

I'll give free advertising to this guy ! Francisco Campos ! The
nicest 'free programming stuff' programmer in all history, the man,
the real man, the free stuff man.
http://www.beyondata.com/

But arrrgghh, now Brad's gonna get mad at us for dirtying up his
nice ' articles wanted' thread and we'll both be made 'New Members' :eek:

I've used the codejocket exterme toolkit, and I was not too impressed. There are many useless controls in there, and many can be found for free on sites like this. And many of the codejock controls are inferior to the ones found here. The progress control posted a few days ago comes to mind. One thing I did like was thier "masked" edit boxes, which I had never heard of before. Its not that hard to implement, but its a good idea.

The one thing the I really disliked about codejock was the like of help. The help file seems computer generated, it contains no useful information, no samples. It only tells you what the parameters are not much more. You get descriptions like "NULL Terminated string", like you couldn't figure that out on your own. Ah... a null terminated string... now thats what I was doing wrong! I thought your piece of crap could guess where my string ends. There is also descriptions like "Returns a CString". Which, I just have to laugh at.

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Originally posted by mdmd
That's right; free advertising, free QA, free everything
Well, now its three hunderd bucks :eek:

Soooo pfffftttthhhh on code jock !

I'll give free advertising to this guy ! Francisco Campos ! The
nicest 'free programming stuff' programmer in all history, the man,
the real man, the free stuff man.
http://www.beyondata.com/

But arrrgghh, now Brad's gonna get mad at us for dirtying up his
nice ' articles wanted' thread and we'll both be made 'New Members' :eek:

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Its creepy how similar that site's "preview" is to codejock's!

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Its creepy how similar that site's "preview" is to codejock's!

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Yeah, probably see some codeguru code there too. I haven't
looked at his code, but his samples look good; not perfect but I
wouldn't expect that. He also has some stuff that isn't in the
commercial ones.
What's sad with the commercial ones that cost 300 +++ is they
aren't really doing anything original; just duplicating the new MS
look and feel whenever MS comes out with something. I wish
they were a little more custom. Sure some of the stuff 'could' be
helpfull, but I don't think they are worth it; too many free ones
like this and others that aren't complete but have good things.
Then of course, codeguru and codeproject have that stuff and
more.

So maybe an [B]Article about custom controls that don't have the
look and feel of MS and are truely awsome and cool to use[B] :D

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I'll give free advertising to this guy ! Francisco Campos ! The
nicest 'free programming stuff' programmer in all history, the man,
the real man, the free stuff man.
http://www.beyondata.com/

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Why in thr world didn't you gimme that awesome link before, MDMD???!! :eek::eek:
Argh! This...this site......has a.......GUI TOOLKIT???!!! :eek:
It's crazy! Argh! I'm gonna give up my chicken chop and put away my girls and explore this heavenly tool! Argh! Am I dreaming??!! How can there be such a tool??!! :eek:
Thanks a lot, MDMD! U rule!
Down with Bush! Down with Bush! MDMD rules! He rocks! Faith in him! In MDMD I trust! MDMD save the queen! Yay!

To repay him, I'm probably gonna e-mail this guy and offer to do a much much sleeker and nice web site logo for him.

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The one thing the I really disliked about codejock was the like of help. The help file seems computer generated, it contains no useful information, no samples. It only tells you what the parameters are not much more. You get descriptions like "NULL Terminated string", like you couldn't figure that out on your own. Ah... a null terminated string... now thats what I was doing wrong! I thought your piece of crap could guess where my string ends. There is also descriptions like "Returns a CString". Which, I just have to laugh at.

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Actually, there's nothing new in poor documentation for 3rd party controls/libraries, MWilliamson. :)
I've downloaded and purchased several ActiveX controls and their documentation all sucks like crazy.

They're exactly what you described : no details, just a one-line proto-type of their functions and a 1-2 line description of what that function does. Argh!
These guys prefer to let their code samples do the talking....but samples cannot include everything and we need real documentation!

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What's sad with the commercial ones that cost 300 +++ is they
aren't really doing anything original; just duplicating the new MS
look and feel whenever MS comes out with something. I wish
they were a little more custom.

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I agree. But there seems to be one exception, though : CodeJock's menus. They're even prettier than the Windows XP and Visual Studio 2003 ones. If you've seen their ads here on CodeGuru, then you may have seen the menus. The top of their menu has a "tab" look and I doubt even Visual Studio .net has them.

The only reason I would buy these tools are :

1) To give my program the consistent, latest and coolest look in Windows 98, ME and 2000. By default, your controls are dull in these OSes, other than XP.

2) These tools are thoroughly tested....so....I just plug-and-use. :)
Err nooo.....it's Plug-research-use-research-research-use.(research the darn poor documentation)

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I agree that taking something off of CodeGuru so it can go commercial having used the feedback and such from the members of CodeGuru is not right. While I was over the site in March of 2001, I was not directly running the site (I had a site manager that was doing the daily operations at that time). I would have argued against removing the article. At this point this is history.

This is also the case of one article being removed by the site manager of the time. Are there other examples of articles disappearing?

Brad!

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Originally posted by Brad Jones
This is also the case of one article being removed by the site
manager of the time. Are there other examples of articles
disappearing?
Brad!

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Well, this one was pretty notable. I actually didn't find it again
till doing a google search. You can't get the link from the
advancedui page, it doesn't show up; you can just paste in the
link.

I don't know if there are more. But I don't notice it, I'm not at
the main pages too often. But I suspect the issue is more an "I
can't find it again because I don't remember what section it was
in" issue because some of the stuff is in a different area than
maybe someone else normally would've put it; and if someone
were looking for an article they might just be looking in the
wrong section.

For a quick example these articles are in the "UI and Printing
Frameworks" section and should really be somewhere else (
along with others in my opinion )
http://www.codeguru.com/advancedui/T...r_button.shtml
http://www.codeguru.com/advancedui/infobar.shtml
I would expect them to be under 'controls' or something, not a
section listed as Framework's, and I probably wouldn't find them
again if I noticed them in passing the first time.

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Does that mean that your email server has been fixed?

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