Old Articles
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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](https://www.codeproject.com/Articles/2579/Colour-preview-and-picker-applet) [Macro to initialize GDI+ in VC6.0 MFC projects](https://www.codeproject.com/Articles/3334/Macro-to-initialize-GDI-in-VC6-0-MFC-projects) [MakeMessage - An STL 'replacement' for the FormatMessage API](https://www.codeproject.com/Articles/13199/MakeMessage-An-STL-replacement-for-the-FormatMessa)
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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](https://www.codeproject.com/Articles/2579/Colour-preview-and-picker-applet) [Macro to initialize GDI+ in VC6.0 MFC projects](https://www.codeproject.com/Articles/3334/Macro-to-initialize-GDI-in-VC6-0-MFC-projects) [MakeMessage - An STL 'replacement' for the FormatMessage API](https://www.codeproject.com/Articles/13199/MakeMessage-An-STL-replacement-for-the-FormatMessa)
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People still use COBOL. People still have Windows XP running on machines. Why do I mention this? Just because there's something new and shiny on the horizon, it doesn't mean that people don't still use old things. Your articles might be just the thing that they need so removing them would be a real shame.
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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](https://www.codeproject.com/Articles/2579/Colour-preview-and-picker-applet) [Macro to initialize GDI+ in VC6.0 MFC projects](https://www.codeproject.com/Articles/3334/Macro-to-initialize-GDI-in-VC6-0-MFC-projects) [MakeMessage - An STL 'replacement' for the FormatMessage API](https://www.codeproject.com/Articles/13199/MakeMessage-An-STL-replacement-for-the-FormatMessa)
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We don't actively hunt them down for disposal. But if we or someone else discovers an an article the case is something like, "this is deprecated and can't be altered to be current," we will remove the article. Similarly, if an author wants to remove their old articles, we will remove them at their request.
Thanks, Sean Ewington CodeProject
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We don't actively hunt them down for disposal. But if we or someone else discovers an an article the case is something like, "this is deprecated and can't be altered to be current," we will remove the article. Similarly, if an author wants to remove their old articles, we will remove them at their request.
Thanks, Sean Ewington CodeProject
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People still use COBOL. People still have Windows XP running on machines. Why do I mention this? Just because there's something new and shiny on the horizon, it doesn't mean that people don't still use old things. Your articles might be just the thing that they need so removing them would be a real shame.
We can see this in Q&A, albeit not that often, questions asked about very old tech i.e. VB6 etc. When I search for a possible solution, many a time these old articles will pop up and can be used as a solution for the OP (mostly than not grinding our teeth in silence on why they would persist in using old tech :^) ).
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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](https://www.codeproject.com/Articles/2579/Colour-preview-and-picker-applet) [Macro to initialize GDI+ in VC6.0 MFC projects](https://www.codeproject.com/Articles/3334/Macro-to-initialize-GDI-in-VC6-0-MFC-projects) [MakeMessage - An STL 'replacement' for the FormatMessage API](https://www.codeproject.com/Articles/13199/MakeMessage-An-STL-replacement-for-the-FormatMessa)
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In 2019 I found that one of the best articles I read about a concrete Topic was in the MSDN Archive written in 2007. I even shared the page where I found "almost" the whole collection and there were a lot of people saying thanks for that. At the end... old != wrong And as Pete said above... We still have some XP computers running old industrial software that wasn't updated to 64 bit architechture and we couldn't make it work in a win7 32-bit edition, I only hope that those places get deprecated and out of production before the PCs get broken... if not, we will have a problem. And no, sadly porting it to a VM is not an option. additionally My only article is MFC VC++ 6 too and it still gets some downloads of the code or even bookmarking from time to time. Have you checked your article stats?
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.