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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.[^]
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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.[^]
      -Or-
      A Dead ringer for Kate Winslett[^]

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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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          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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              Cool. Shall we try again?

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

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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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