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Found plagiarism? Not sure if it is plagiarism?

Sean Ewington — Thu, 30 Jul 2015 15:25:00 GMT

I've written an FAQ on plagiarism to help authors understand what is plagiarism, as well as help members identify it. It is here: CodeProject Plagiarism FAQ[^]

If you find an article that is plagiarized you can either submit a report on the article itself, marking it as "Plagiarized," or you can report it in the Spam and Abuse Watch[^] forum with your evidence and a link to the members account, or you can email me directly sean@codeproject.com if you suspect plagiarism or have further plagiarism questions or concerns.

Thanks,
Sean Ewington
CodeProject

Note From Code Project - The Article Writing Forum

Sean Ewington — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 14:12:00 GMT

This forum is for any and all questions for Code Project Article Writing:

Have a question about writing an article?
Having trouble posting?
Blog aggregation not working?
Not sure about your article topic?
Is your article still pending?
Is there a crazy formatting problem in your article?
Not sure how to update your article?
Having problems with the submission wizard?
Need help making a change to an existing article?

As a basic overview CodeProject articles have a certain layout to follow, so that users can learn the most from them. Each article attempts to answer the following questions: What problem does this solution solve? How does this help someone else? How does the code actually work? What is going on inside the code snippets?

Here is a submission from a first time author who did a terrific job, just to give you a basic overview of what a beginner article might look like:
Avoiding InvokeRequired[^]

You can take a look at our article FAQ series here:
Code Project Article FAQ[^]

For tips on writing articles, please see this article:
A Guide To Writing Articles For Code Project[^]

You can also see our submission guidelines here:
http://www.codeproject.com/info/submit.aspx[^]

If it has to do with posting articles on Code Project, ask away. CodeProject staff and members are here to help.

Thanks,
Sean Ewington
The Code Project

I can't completely create a PyDev project in Eclipse

Member 15702813 — Tue, 09 Jul 2024 11:51:00 GMT

Whether I install PyDev as a plugin or as a web address from which to download the libraries in Eclipse, it always gives me the usual problem when I try to implement a project in Python. I can create the outermost part of the project, but when I need to create an internal Package to then create a module in python it won't let me create the Package, in the dialog box and in the top box it won't accept any Project Name including the one I need to enter. Has anyone been able to solve this problem?

How close to existing articles?

Malcolm Arthur McLean — Fri, 21 Jun 2024 21:46:00 GMT

I've got code which rotates a GIF by shear, which would make a nice tip or trick.

However someone else has also posted a article on rotating images by shear, which uses essentially the same underlying method, which is well-known and neither of us invented.

There are two differences. He categorises his code as a Microsoft Foundation Class code and presents it in a way that is MFC-dependent. Whilst I wrap my algorithm in a GIF-rotate program. And he applies only one shear whilst I apply two, to maintain the dimesions of a square image.

So is it to done thing to create or to hold off? I don't want to step on people's toes.

How Much Time Is Typically Spent Writing An Article?

Steve Raw — Tue, 18 Jun 2024 15:17:00 GMT

If I were to write an article, how much time could I expect to spend writing it?

my article just vanished

Hawkynt — Fri, 07 Jun 2024 16:30:00 GMT

... and I can not view it again. there's just "[Article:5383311]" written. please get it back, soon, thanks.

On 17 May 2024 I did a small tip to solve the white/invisible text selection cursor while hovering text being edited on a web site and

Joan M — Fri, 31 May 2024 06:19:00 GMT

It appears on my list of tips/tricks, but when I try to click on it, I get a black background with the following text:

Quote:

Ticket:
Error: An error occurred in this page. The error has been recorded and the site administrator informed.
Abort, Retry, Fail?_

I uploaded the article the 17 May 2024, it's not a big deal to do it again, but I don't want to leave strange links in house...

What should I do?

Thank you all in advance...

www.robotecnik.com[^] - robots, CNC and PLC programming

Are this articles OK for CodeProject?

Mark Pelf — Thu, 30 May 2024 21:28:00 GMT

Hello Sean,
Can you please have a look if the below articles are according to codeproject policies and can be published here:

Everything / Artificial Intelligence / ChatGPT
Everything / Artificial Intelligence / Data Science
https://markpelf.com/2079/skepticism-about-large-language-models-llm-and-chatgpt/

Everything / Productivity Apps and Services / Microsoft Office
https://markpelf.com/2057/what-is-microsofts-new-brand-copilot-as-of-may-2024/

How to introduce AI technologies into a medium-sized office (May 2024)
https://markpelf.com/2081/how-to-introduce-ai-technologies-into-a-medium-sized-office-may-2024/

Wrong images in my Tip/Trick

Jo_vb.net — Mon, 20 May 2024 23:10:00 GMT

In my latest Tip which was updated some hours before, there was a problem with the images.

Then I made another update and replaced 1 image and added 1 new image.
The preview was looking really good.

Then I clicked on publish.

But on viewing the new version, the images for the Context Menus are wrong again.
WPF DataGrid with RichText, RowDetails, Grouping, Filter and more![^]

Correct would be:

extracted-image-1.png => Context Menu of Data Grid

extracted-image-2.png => RichTextBoxFormatBar

A "here's a neat tool I made and you can use it too" article

Brian C Hart — Thu, 09 May 2024 22:31:00 GMT

If I make a neat tool that I think adds a lot of value for Visual Studio programmers, and that I do not want to charge people money for it --- rather, in order to make the world a better place, I just want to fling it out there, along with its source code and corresponding GitHub repo, would it be acceptable to write a The Code Project article about it, describing why I wrote it, its feature set, how to use it, and such?

Is it okay to publish an article and then post in the Lounge, "hey check out my new article?"

Brian C Hart — Thu, 09 May 2024 15:50:00 GMT

Like the subject line says, that is my question.

I've been a member and author on the Code Project for 24 years. I do not want to do anything wrong, but I think it is important to try and get eyeballs if I feel I've published something that is going to be of interest to the community.

Regards,

Brian Hart

Potential spam in article

Pete O'Hanlon — Thu, 09 May 2024 12:03:00 GMT

@sean-ewington, we have an article posted[^] with a link in to a Youtube channel. The author says he might be remunerated for this. This feels like spam to me.

Advanced TypeScript Programming Projects

How do I delete revisions of a project?

ls6777 — Fri, 12 Apr 2024 19:35:00 GMT

The latest public revision of my project article is 6. However, there are revision 7 and 8 in composing state. I want to delete revisions 7 and 8, and only have revision 6 as the last/latest one. How do I delete just the 2 revisions that are in the composing state?

What I have tried:

If I select the "trash can" link, I get a prompt with:
"Are you sure you want to delete this Project?"

No... I don't want to delete this project. I only want to delete the last 2 revisions that are in composing state.

Project flagged as "Wrong type"?

Greg Utas — Fri, 05 Apr 2024 14:24:00 GMT

This was submitted as a Project:

How to implement a Custom Authorization Filter in C# .NET Core[^]

I noticed that several experienced reviewers have flagged it as "Wrong type". What am I missing? There are many Articles that should be Tip/Tricks, but I thought pretty much anything could be a Project if it discussed a repository, unless the documentation was poor enough to simply reject it.

Robust Services Core | Software Techniques for Lemmings | Articles
The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing.

What is your article writing workflow?

Mircea Neacsu — Tue, 26 Mar 2024 12:25:00 GMT

... me, I'm still searching for one. I don't like using the article writing tool from scratch because I write slowly and revise a lot. I am quite happy with writing my drafts using Markdown in VSCode but when it comes to importing them in CP tool, there is no easy way to do it. The "Markdown All in One" extension in VSCode has some kind of "export to HTML" function but it doesn't play nice with CP styles specially for code formatting.

Is there a way to import directly markdown in CP? Do you have other insights how to make writing/editing easier?

Mircea

Possible hacked account?

jeron1 — Mon, 11 Mar 2024 16:07:00 GMT

Saw this Motivational Numerology[^] article on the home page. Seems iffy and spammy to say the least, perhaps someone could verify? Not sure where to post this, as the user is a long time member and article writer.

"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle

This guy doesn't learn

Nelek — Mon, 11 Mar 2024 08:47:00 GMT

How To Use Polly In C#: Easily Handle Faults And Retries[^]

format broken, a bunch of bad links, asking for suscription, affiliation links, several this appeared first on in addition to the CP's blog feed entry...

@Sean-Ewington or @Chris-Maunder would you mind to speak with him some serious words?

Is the second time I post it here because his content is not bad and I think he can do better in this topic, but it is getting annoying with his pushing passive earning sources and site driving efforts.

Next time I will report him in the S&A, sorry.

M.D.V.

If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.

Sean, can you have a look?

Nelek — Sun, 10 Mar 2024 08:22:00 GMT

This guy[^] has yesterday fed a bunch of blogs at once (IIRC at least 11). Some of them are getting approved already, some still in moderation.

Almost all of them have:

(function(i,s,o,g,r,a,m){i['GoogleAnalyticsObject']=r;i[r]=i[r]||function(){ (i[r].q=i[r].q||[]).push(arguments)},i[r].l=1*new Date();a=s.createElement(o), m=s.getElementsByTagName(o)[0];a.async=1;a.src=g;m.parentNode.insertBefore(a,m) })(window,document,'script','https://www.google-analytics.com/analytics.js','ga');</p> <p> ga('create', 'UA-78764756-1', 'auto'); ga('send', 'pageview');</p> <p>

mostly at the end of the post just after the codeproject tag.

Additionally some of the posts are breaking images / videos width boundaries.

@sean-ewington Would you mind to have a look to his publications, correct what is needed and maybe have some words with him to tell him how to do it properly for the next serie?

This one, I have a problem with

Pete O'Hanlon — Tue, 05 Mar 2024 09:01:00 GMT

While I applaud the use of Step Functions and showing their use, Composing poésie concrète with AWS Step Function[^] is a political message. While I deplore what has happened to Ukraine, and do feel pity for Ukrainians, I don't think that Code Project is the place for this. I may be wrong though.

Advanced TypeScript Programming Projects

Old Articles

PJ Arends — Mon, 04 Mar 2024 19:26:00 GMT

What is your policy on old articles? Do you like to keep them around for posterities sake? I have 3 of my articles that old and not really useful any more and feel that maybe they should be removed from the site. They are:

Colour preview and picker applet

Macro to initialize GDI+ in VC6.0 MFC projects

MakeMessage - An STL 'replacement' for the FormatMessage API

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