error with article comments

1209 byte By cilu at 2007-11-19 5:27:23
I just noticed something that I think is an error with the article comments. I have replayed to a comment posted on this article http://www.dev-archive.com/Cpp/W-P/system/hardwareinformation/article.php/c9087but I left the title field empty. I have received an e-mail notification that the comment has...

.NET forums display wrong number of threads

205 byte By cilu at 2007-11-19 5:28:04
I've just noticed that the number of threads and post for Visual C++.NET and Visual Basic.NET forums are not displayed correctly. I've attached an image with it.<br/>What's the problem?

.net Faq

306 byte By cilu at 2007-11-19 5:28:06
I was wondering for some time now why don't we have a .NET FAQ similar to the VisualC++ FAQ?It topics can be grouped in: .NET Framework Visual C++.NET CSharp VB.NET ASP.NETWhat do you think about it? I believe it can be as useful as the VC++ FAQ....

How can we make the CG site even better...

700 byte By raghuvamshi at 2007-11-19 5:28:36
I happened to visit http://www.hardwaregeeks.comtheir site has such a shocking resemblance to CG - is CG affiliated with them in any way?But they do some cool stuff like display an msn or yahoo or other IM icon along with reputation and the author's image of choice along with each post... http:...

Two users with the same name!

257 byte By Ajay Vijay at 2007-11-19 5:31:46
I just casually search the members with my name ('Ajay') and found a name that exists TWO times in the system.<br/>The name is ajay.gupta<br/>They both have different number of posts, and their user ids are also different. <br/>How come?

Number of post drop

206 byte By Doctor Luz at 2007-11-19 5:37:00
Have you recently deleted the ancient "chit-chat" posts or something from the number of post count? I've noticed a sudden drop in the number of post two months ago aprox.<br/>Just for curiosity...

Response via email for posts.

119 byte By Nibinaear at 2007-11-19 5:37:58
You need a checkbox for deciding whether to get response via email. At the moment it is simply on or off for all posts.

Employment opportunity, May I post?

232 byte By silverqq at 2007-11-19 5:38:16
I have a job opportunity that is suitable for the audience in this forum. I would like to post it here. Could one of the site moderators or administrators please contact me and let me know if this is acceptable.<br/>Thank you

how can we remove our thread from this forum

72 byte By saurabh_helloaish at 2007-11-19 5:50:19
Hi<br/>If I want to remove threads started by me, how can I do that

Reputations

111 byte By Arjay at 2007-11-19 5:51:38
In my User CP, I see the last 5 reputations. Any way to view the complete reputation history?<br/> <br/>Arjay

comments links broken?

280 byte By occlude at 2007-11-19 5:51:48
when I view this article<br/> http://www.dev-archive.com/Cpp/controls/listview/selection/article.php/c1025/<br/>all the coment links seem to end up displaying the site map instead of the comment clicked on. <br/>Same behavior from both IE and Firefox<br/>Is something broken?

Congratulations on 200,000 Threads in the VC++ Forum

67 byte By MikeAThon at 2007-11-19 5:52:11
It's really quite a milestone. Congratulations.<br/>Mike

Members List

102 byte By Madhi at 2007-11-19 6:00:58
Is there any way to list the members according to their posts? ie Descending order of number of posts.

list view articles section unavailable

352 byte By cilu at 2007-11-19 6:07:25
I have noticed that the listctrl/view articles section, http://www.dev-archive.com/Cpp/controls/listview/, is no longer available. What happened?[edit]: :sick: :sick: now it's working. I would like to ask a moderator to delete this thread. I don't know what happened, but I tried several...

Annoying PMs

93 byte By kirants at 2007-11-19 6:09:08
Is this hari2000 guy annoying others, or is it only me ? I've been getting PMs non stop.

error is avatar size during registration

97 byte By Matthew Doucette at 2007-11-19 6:20:10
Your avatar size in registration is 80x100, but it rejects anything over 50x50, so this is a bug.

notification type defaults

144 byte By Matthew Doucette at 2007-11-19 6:20:13
My "Notification Type" is set to "Do not subscribe" by default. How can I set that to "Instant email notification" by default?<br/>Thanks.

Article Code Reviews

298 byte By ahoodin at 2007-11-19 6:28:14
I think it would be an excellent Idea to review the quality and features of the code that is coming out of the articles. Prehaps dev-archive should have a document format for reviews. This way we could see what the issues the control will bring to development. What do we think?<br/>ahoodin

For how long is the post kept alive and can be seen

227 byte By miteshpandey at 2007-11-19 6:30:04
Under "Looking for job" I had posted that I am available for any full time or part time job. I want to know for how long will my post be displayed. Or are these posts archived somewhere where the probable employer can look for.

something about the colors

149 byte By cilu at 2007-11-19 6:36:36
Does someone changed the color used to display the user name or does my eyes play tricks on me? The light blue doesn't look good at all. :sick:

Slow or incomplete page loading

584 byte By Zim327 at 2007-11-19 6:40:03
Hi, First of all, I just like to say Thank you to everyone at CG. I love this web site and I use it all the time. I greatly appreciate all the guidance I've received here over the years.Lately, I've had some difficulty with viewing pages. I'll have to refresh a page at least 4-5 tim...

Searching + a suggestion about finding articles

1464 byte By darwen at 2007-11-19 6:40:33
I'm really concerned about articles getting lost. I've just entered "Assembler" into the CG search and it didn't find either of my new tutorial articles.Also I'm worried about the categorisation. The folder structure is excellent - but needs an easier interface in my opinion.How...

How to become reviewer for Code Guru Article?

373 byte By x8086 at 2007-11-19 6:41:33
All Members,Since we have such a nice forum to Display your Programming Skill and Share our weak point in programming to make it more Stronger, I want to contribute my some efforts for making it more and more effective.So Question Is how to Contribute to forum ? What is the eligibility to become Ar...

Its Taking to Long To Display Submitted Article !!

163 byte By x8086 at 2007-11-19 6:41:37
Hi All ,<br/>[b] I have written an Article for forum and my Concern is IT is Taking to Long Time <br/>To Display The Submitted Article!!!! [b]<br/>x8086

Programming competition.

166 byte By x8086 at 2007-11-19 6:41:40
It is Just A suggestion <br/>Can we have programming Competition on the Forum for Related Skills in Respective forum Sections?<br/>Regards,<br/>x8086

VB code tags...

293 byte By YourSurrogateGod at 2007-11-19 6:48:11
Where are they :) ? One was able to use them before the forum upgrade.<br/>And unless I'm mistaken, I think you can activate the VB code tags feature in the different post viewing schemes (I remember those different options vaguely after this forum was upgraded), my question is how?

squares instead of chars like

336 byte By cilu at 2007-11-19 6:50:33
I have noticed that in many cases the text of the links listed in a page header are containing squares instead of characters like single quote ('). This happens for example when copying the text from a Word document and pasting in notepad. Can this be avoided. It doesn't look good. For an...

Ad problem

90 byte By Andreas Masur at 2007-11-19 6:51:11
Can we please fix the problem with the following ad (Firefox 1.0)...thank you very much...

February book winners

280 byte By Brad Jones at 2007-11-19 6:54:16
As announced in the newsletter - <br/>Thanks again to everyone who submitted and published articles<br/>in February. The following get a copy of dev-archive.com Visual <br/>C++ Goodies:<br/>Andy McGovern<br/>endether<br/>In March we will give additional books away!

(look and) feel of thread rating starts

1010 byte By cilu at 2007-11-19 6:56:01
[typing mistake in the title... :cry: ]We have the option of rating a thread with 1 to 5 stars:5 - Excellent4 - Good3 - Average2 - Bad1 - TerribleMost of the threads are never rated, so when people (like myself) see a star they tend to think that there is something special (in a positive way) with...

Why no emails?

1409 byte By Brad Jones at 2007-11-19 6:59:21
I was asked the following. I thought I'd share the answer here in feedback.How come dev-archive doesnt send me an email when someone replies to my posts in the forum? I dont see an option to enable this on my profile settings which seems kind of odd. That makes it really difficult to respond...

The display of the "Code" button

258 byte By Brad Jones at 2007-11-19 6:59:26
Yes, after many months I have finally fixed the display of the Code button in the editors. It no longer has the white background. Rather, it is now transparent and looks much, much better. <br/>Please hold the applause until later.... ;)<br/>Brad!

Most viewed in 2005 of 2005

418 byte By Brad Jones at 2007-11-19 7:05:55
In tomorrow's dev-archive Update newsletter I will be posting the top ten 2005 articles based on total views. This will be from just the 2005 articles, so if you've had an article posted this year, you'll have a chance to make a "top 10" list!If you don't get the newsletter, you...

how to see all threads started by me?

110 byte By naim1 at 2007-11-19 7:14:45
Hi All,<br/>Is there a way to see all the threads on this forum that were started by me?<br/>naim1~^

profile picture problem

390 byte By cilu at 2007-11-19 7:16:17
I have a problem with my profile ( http://www.dev-archive.com/member.php/89381/) picture: there are two pictures actually, which are displayed (aparently) in a random manner. I could not find a pattern. A few months ago I have replaced the old picture with a new one. Since there this mess occurs.Here...

Congratulations to our new MVPs

370 byte By Andreas Masur at 2007-11-19 7:23:00
I would like to take the opportunity to congratulate the following members who just have been awarded as a Microsoft MVP: Gabriel Fleseriu ( http://www.dev-archive.com/forum/member.php?u=54586) JohnCz ( http://www.dev-archive.com/forum/member.php?u=4814) gstercken ( http://www.dev-archive.com/forum/mem...

Multiple Quoting!?

571 byte By Max Payne at 2007-11-19 7:28:10
Hi,Why don't dev-archive have a multiple quoting feature, I have seen in another forum using this quoting feature. current quote funtion just can quote to one post, lets say i want to quote from three posts in different pages, can put a "+ Quote" button which can clicked (slect the post to quot...

Post Count Problem

108 byte By Madhi at 2007-11-19 7:33:58
After my 200th post, the post count is same as 200 although I answered for some topics. What is the problem?

Emoticons

133 byte By Sahir at 2007-11-19 7:41:22
I found a really :cool: alien frog emoticon in VBForums. Er! Since both sites have the same management, can we have it here too ?

[size] tag

121 byte By Hobson at 2007-11-19 7:42:46
Is there any way to make tiny font in IE, smaller than default one?<br/>Or there is just something wrong with my browser?

Article on COM InterOP between .NET & VB 6.0

295 byte By Shuja Ali at 2007-11-19 7:57:57
Hi Brad,<br/>I have written an article on COM InterOP between .NET and VB 6.0. I don't know how many people will be interested in knowing about that. But I want to share whatever I learned during one of my projects.<br/> <br/>Can I submit it on dev-archive?<br/> <br/>Thanks,<br/>Shuja

March Book Winners

702 byte By Brad Jones at 2007-11-19 7:58:33
The following get a copy of dev-archive.com Visual C++ Goodies ( http://books.internet.com/books/0789727773) OR Kate Gregory's Visual C++ .NET 2003 Kick Start ( http://books.internet.com/books/0672326000):Georges Dumond*Steve Green*Additionally, the following person was selected for Writing Sec...

Scrolling through code in Mozilla is not possible...

401 byte By YourSurrogateGod at 2007-11-19 8:02:45
Ok, if you look at the below link, it'll show you a long piece of code. http://www.dev-archive.com/forum/showthread.php?p=1138708#post1138708Here's the problem. In IE, it's possible to use the rolling wheel to scroll through that snippet, but it's not possible to do the same thing...

Url [resolved]

205 byte By Nibinaear at 2007-11-19 8:05:39
I've always wondered why the url of the forums is www.dev-archive.com/forum. Shouldn't it be www.dev-archive.com/forums? If you type that in you get nothing though, could someone update the link?

A test yourself forum...

1456 byte By Vaderman at 2007-11-19 8:05:42
Based on some of the questions that appear in the forum, and that some users want to be able to test their knowledge as this thread shows, do you think it might be a good idea to set up a weekly/monthly knowledge test on dev-archive?How I would see this is that you would answer certain questions. Th...

.net Faq

199 byte By cilu at 2007-11-19 8:11:02
This has been addressed before. I don't see anything done on this direction.<br/>Is there any chance to have, soon, a .NET FAQ? For VC#, VB.NET and VC++.NET/managed C++?<br/>Thank you.

how to see - > in c++ forum

161 byte By Marc from D at 2007-11-19 8:11:03
Hi!<br/> whenever I should see in c++ forum a thing like "class->element", it is shown as "<" Why? How can I avoid it?<br/> <br/> Thanks!<br/> <br/> Marc

Your site plays with javascript ?

190 byte By bettmanz at 2007-11-19 8:16:24
Why does dev-archive forum site impliment a java popup to check for security problem ? :(<br/>It asks me to click the link repeatedly, dev-archive seems to love java than c++, right ?:(

Recent articles problem [Resolved]

431 byte By Yves M at 2007-11-19 8:17:26
Whenever I'm viewing a forum, I get the following instead of the list of recent articles:Warning: readfile(): php_network_getaddresses: getaddrinfo failed: Name or service not known in /global.php(394) : eval()'d code on line 30Warning: readfile( http://www.dev-archive.com/forum-articles.ph...

database problems

659 byte By cilu at 2007-11-19 8:18:33
I have experienced several problems when trying to post this evening. Even when I wanted to created this thread I was giving this message twice:There seems to have been a slight problem with the database.Please try again by pressing the refresh button in your browser.An E-Mail has been dispatched to...