Quality ?
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Has anyone else noticed that the quality has gone way down as compared to the early days of TCP? I remember submittinbg some stuff years ago and I got lit up because I didn't explane enough. (I never made that mistake again) Now a days that almost seems like common practice. Like today I saw an new article marked as "advanced" how to shutdown VB.NET (Shouldn't that be shutdown windows... anyway): One line of code: process.Start("shutdown", "/r") Some articals are still really good but not as many as a few years ago. (Especially the VB articals are severly lacking lately...) This is the comment I got years ago, and it stuck with me: I gave you a low score (2) because even though the code is good, the article is not. I vote on the article, not on the code (no matter how well commented). You do need to go into how those complex RegEx header expressions work and other interesting areas of the code. Otherwise we might as well just turn CP into a code repository. Moer and More TCP seems like a repository lately. Anyway, that comment was from http://thecodeproject.com/vb/net/RTBClass.asp[^] Matthew Hazlett
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Has anyone else noticed that the quality has gone way down as compared to the early days of TCP? I remember submittinbg some stuff years ago and I got lit up because I didn't explane enough. (I never made that mistake again) Now a days that almost seems like common practice. Like today I saw an new article marked as "advanced" how to shutdown VB.NET (Shouldn't that be shutdown windows... anyway): One line of code: process.Start("shutdown", "/r") Some articals are still really good but not as many as a few years ago. (Especially the VB articals are severly lacking lately...) This is the comment I got years ago, and it stuck with me: I gave you a low score (2) because even though the code is good, the article is not. I vote on the article, not on the code (no matter how well commented). You do need to go into how those complex RegEx header expressions work and other interesting areas of the code. Otherwise we might as well just turn CP into a code repository. Moer and More TCP seems like a repository lately. Anyway, that comment was from http://thecodeproject.com/vb/net/RTBClass.asp[^] Matthew Hazlett
Matthew Hazlett wrote:
(Especially the VB articals are severly lacking lately...)
I answer VB, C# and C++ questions. I like the C++ ones best because they stand a good chance of being intelligent. I spent a day trying to help someone use VB.NET to call a stored proc ( he initially insisted the web page I linked to was C# code when it was Vb.NET ). It turned out that he was working within an asp page and trying to get my advice to run as VBScript. In other words, a lot of people are getting into coding via VB or C#, and have a lot less of an idea than you may hope. The sort of questions being asked reflect that, and probably so do the sort of things people think make a good article.
Matthew Hazlett wrote:
Some articals are still really good but not as many as a few years ago.
It was inevitable that as more and more people found this site, the signal to noise ratio would suffer. Christian Graus - Microsoft MVP - C++