Forums Updates [December 14, 2005]
Over the past two days, the Microsoft Forums team has been deploying updates to our existing Forums. These changes include:
- New rich text editor box. We are now using the same message box that the MSN Spaces team uses. Thanks to the Spaces team for sharing code!
- We now support 9 languages and users will begin to see non-English forums popping up. Languages include (French, German, Italian, Spanish, Korean, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese,Japanese)
- Removed C# and VB code buttons
- IE 7 now supported
- Bug fixes: Too many too mention
Ensuring all parts of Forums are supported by the 8 additional languages is a lot more work than meets the eye. I want to thank my team for excellent work. We only had 3 weeks in which to do this project.
Thank you to all who use our Forums whether via the Web site or through the VS 2005 IDE or SQL Server Help.
Thanks
Jana Carter
Forums Product Manager
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Jana] at [2008-3-5]
First of all its great that there are constant updates, great work!
A couple of things, though:
1. Why were the code buttons removed? I know that you still hand code the code elements, but it so much easier to have buttons for this.
2. The default font of the editor is too large and when it is output to the page it is too small.
3. There are no margins when editing the post, so text hugs the very left side of the editor.
4. Any chance of changing the editor to use a white background?
Cheers
David
What was the code for inserting C# code again? I need it :)
Start with [ code language="c++" ] end with [ /code ]
This is the way I place C++ code. I don't know how to do it in C# <bg>
hehe... that didn't help, I just see a block of code now :)
it was:bracket open code language=c# bracket closed
bracket open /code bracket closed
hah you edited it ;) thx.
Didn't know there was a C++ version, let's try
C++ code block:
Update: Thats seems to work. Now it would be great if there was buttons for this.
Let's see if they fixed the comment bug as well:
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public void Method()
{
// This line should be green
int myInt = 10;
}
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Update: Hmm... they have seemed to remove functionality, int is no longer seen as a keyword and comments aren't made green.
It was always possible to use C++ as a language in the code block. There was only no button!
Lets see if there is still the index i problem
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j = a ; // Should show no bulb
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U???cks. Inside the code blocks there is still a replacement of the shortcuts. Bug is not fixed!
I see that the new forums site for German is already present: http://forums.microsoft.com/msdn-de
But! If I click now on the "My Threads" page. I see an empty page.
I am bilingual, like most of the "non-American" programmers (SCNR), why is the "My Threads" page empty when I have over 800 posts in the http://forums.microsoft.com/msdn area?
 David M. Kean wrote: |
| 2. The default font of the editor is too large and when it is output to the page it is too small. 3. There are no margins when editing the post, so text hugs the very left side of the editor. 4. Any chance of changing the editor to use a white background? |
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I agree with all of David's points, quoted here.
Joke for Martin:
What do you call someone who speaks three languages?
Trilingual.
What do you call someone who speaks two languages?
Bilingual.
What do you call someone who speaks only one language?
American.
:)
Brian
I have no idea what their talking about , when they talk about
codes. I know that it has to do with comands. But I liked your joke, good
punch line.
hi,
i agree the code button should be added again and may be add a different backgroundcolor for exceptions, at least as just back ground color like quoting without any code editors and to copy from the IDE to this code box
best regards
