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  • C Chris Maunder

    I've just updated your article using my account and your account and both times was successful. Are you adding any non-ASCII characters to the title?

    cheers, Chris Maunder The Code Project | Co-founder Microsoft C++ MVP

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    Don Kackman
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    Hey Chris, I am seeing this same error suddenly. I had saved a version or two of an aritcle in process but now I can't submit updates. Don

    10 PRINT "Software is hard. - D. Knuth" 20 GOTO 10

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    • C Chris Maunder

      I've just updated your article using my account and your account and both times was successful. Are you adding any non-ASCII characters to the title?

      cheers, Chris Maunder The Code Project | Co-founder Microsoft C++ MVP

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      Keith Barrow
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      Chris, I'm having the same problem & I don't have any non-ASCII characters: A DatePicker based Event Calendar with MVC3 and AJAX. I tried clearing the title box and typed "ZZZZZ", it still happened. It submitted the article OK through the wizard a couple of hours before, I was just making a few ammendments before publishing. The error is happening both when go to "My Articles" --> "Edit this article", and when I open the article itself and click "Update Your Article" [Edit] I forgot to say, the page was posting back, so it wasn't client side validation. Dunno if this helps...

      Sort of a cross between Lawrence of Arabia and Dilbert.[^]
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      A Dead ringer for Kate Winslett[^]

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      • C Chris Maunder

        I've just updated your article using my account and your account and both times was successful. Are you adding any non-ASCII characters to the title?

        cheers, Chris Maunder The Code Project | Co-founder Microsoft C++ MVP

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        Keith Barrow
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        The article now has just disappeared. It couldn't be so bad that it merits deletion before being published, surely? I thought this merited its own post.

        Sort of a cross between Lawrence of Arabia and Dilbert.[^]
        -Or-
        A Dead ringer for Kate Winslett[^]

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        • K Keith Barrow

          Chris, I'm having the same problem & I don't have any non-ASCII characters: A DatePicker based Event Calendar with MVC3 and AJAX. I tried clearing the title box and typed "ZZZZZ", it still happened. It submitted the article OK through the wizard a couple of hours before, I was just making a few ammendments before publishing. The error is happening both when go to "My Articles" --> "Edit this article", and when I open the article itself and click "Update Your Article" [Edit] I forgot to say, the page was posting back, so it wasn't client side validation. Dunno if this helps...

          Sort of a cross between Lawrence of Arabia and Dilbert.[^]
          -Or-
          A Dead ringer for Kate Winslett[^]

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          Chris Maunder
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          Keith Barrow wrote:

          The error is happening both when go to "My Articles" --> "Edit this article", and when I open the article itself and click "Update Your Article"

          Just to confirm: you click to edit the article, and whether you make changes or not, when you hit submit it throws an error? I just edited it and it went through without a single problem for me. This is doing my head in. BTW, it's marked as deleted. Do you want me to undelete it?

          cheers, Chris Maunder The Code Project | Co-founder Microsoft C++ MVP

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          • C Chris Maunder

            Keith Barrow wrote:

            The error is happening both when go to "My Articles" --> "Edit this article", and when I open the article itself and click "Update Your Article"

            Just to confirm: you click to edit the article, and whether you make changes or not, when you hit submit it throws an error? I just edited it and it went through without a single problem for me. This is doing my head in. BTW, it's marked as deleted. Do you want me to undelete it?

            cheers, Chris Maunder The Code Project | Co-founder Microsoft C++ MVP

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            Keith Barrow
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            Chris Maunder wrote:

            Just to confirm: you click to edit the article, and whether you make changes or not, when you hit submit it throws an error?

            Here is what I tried:

            1. I only added a small bit of text to the article body (a paragraph, and an ol with one li in it) - I got the error
            2. I only changed the title to "ZZZZZ" without changing anything else. - I got the error

            I went in a third time to try just re-submitting with no change, but the article was deleted (not sure how) but given 1&2 it looks likely that no change would give the error. Not the same thing as testing it though :)

            Chris Maunder wrote:

            BTW, it's marked as deleted. Do you want me to undelete it?

            Please (see the primal scream below)...

            Sort of a cross between Lawrence of Arabia and Dilbert.[^]
            -Or-
            A Dead ringer for Kate Winslett[^]

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            • K Keith Barrow

              Chris Maunder wrote:

              Just to confirm: you click to edit the article, and whether you make changes or not, when you hit submit it throws an error?

              Here is what I tried:

              1. I only added a small bit of text to the article body (a paragraph, and an ol with one li in it) - I got the error
              2. I only changed the title to "ZZZZZ" without changing anything else. - I got the error

              I went in a third time to try just re-submitting with no change, but the article was deleted (not sure how) but given 1&2 it looks likely that no change would give the error. Not the same thing as testing it though :)

              Chris Maunder wrote:

              BTW, it's marked as deleted. Do you want me to undelete it?

              Please (see the primal scream below)...

              Sort of a cross between Lawrence of Arabia and Dilbert.[^]
              -Or-
              A Dead ringer for Kate Winslett[^]

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              Chris Maunder
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              I found the issue with your article (and 27 other articles) that would have caused this error. It all goes back to a change we made a couple of months ago while we transitioned over to a new file system and there was a very brief gap in which a few articles became a little confused.

              cheers, Chris Maunder The Code Project | Co-founder Microsoft C++ MVP

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              • C Chris Maunder

                I found the issue with your article (and 27 other articles) that would have caused this error. It all goes back to a change we made a couple of months ago while we transitioned over to a new file system and there was a very brief gap in which a few articles became a little confused.

                cheers, Chris Maunder The Code Project | Co-founder Microsoft C++ MVP

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                Don Kackman
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                Cool. Shall we try again?

                10 PRINT "Software is hard. - D. Knuth" 20 GOTO 10

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                • D Don Kackman

                  Cool. Shall we try again?

                  10 PRINT "Software is hard. - D. Knuth" 20 GOTO 10

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                  Chris Maunder
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                  Please do, and let me know how it goes.

                  cheers, Chris Maunder The Code Project | Co-founder Microsoft C++ MVP

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                  • C Chris Maunder

                    Please do, and let me know how it goes.

                    cheers, Chris Maunder The Code Project | Co-founder Microsoft C++ MVP

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                    Don Kackman
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                    Just updated my article without error. Thanks Chris

                    10 PRINT "Software is hard. - D. Knuth" 20 GOTO 10

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                    • D Don Kackman

                      Just updated my article without error. Thanks Chris

                      10 PRINT "Software is hard. - D. Knuth" 20 GOTO 10

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                      Chris Maunder
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                      I need a "wipes sweat from brow" emoticon.

                      cheers, Chris Maunder The Code Project | Co-founder Microsoft C++ MVP

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                      • C Chris Maunder

                        I need a "wipes sweat from brow" emoticon.

                        cheers, Chris Maunder The Code Project | Co-founder Microsoft C++ MVP

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                        Nish Nishant
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                        Chris, This guy has the same problem: http://www.codeproject.com/Messages/4142856/Re-Formatting-issue.aspx[^]

                        Regards, Nish


                        My technology blog: voidnish.wordpress.com

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                        • C Chris Maunder

                          Keith Barrow wrote:

                          The error is happening both when go to "My Articles" --> "Edit this article", and when I open the article itself and click "Update Your Article"

                          Just to confirm: you click to edit the article, and whether you make changes or not, when you hit submit it throws an error? I just edited it and it went through without a single problem for me. This is doing my head in. BTW, it's marked as deleted. Do you want me to undelete it?

                          cheers, Chris Maunder The Code Project | Co-founder Microsoft C++ MVP

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                          Keith Barrow
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                          Thanks for undeleting the article, I drafted in Word but it took a good while to transfer to HTML!

                          Sort of a cross between Lawrence of Arabia and Dilbert.[^]
                          -Or-
                          A Dead ringer for Kate Winslett[^]

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                          • K Keith Barrow

                            Thanks for undeleting the article, I drafted in Word but it took a good while to transfer to HTML!

                            Sort of a cross between Lawrence of Arabia and Dilbert.[^]
                            -Or-
                            A Dead ringer for Kate Winslett[^]

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                            Chris Maunder
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                            In the online HTML editor there is a button that looks like <> in a circle with a line through it. Just paste your word doc into the editor, click this button, and a lot of the grunt work in converting from Word to HTML is done.

                            cheers, Chris Maunder The Code Project | Co-founder Microsoft C++ MVP

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