Forum-FAQ

[peterchen]

Hi All!

How about a FAQ for the Forum. I'm regulary answering questions there - and many of them are repeated.

I'd even go into a starting FAQ for those I'm aware of - and I can handle:

Arrays VB<-->VC, SAFEARRAY's,
Tree w/ checkboxes
Passing strings around in COM
CString <--> int
Send&PostMessage - around in separate threads
EnumWindows, etc.
Dropdown-ComboBox list size
Interprocess Communication - what things

There are many others when I see the question "oh I've seen/answered this more than once" (It's just hard to rewmember...)

Or should the more expensive things be CodeGuru articles?

I already suggested an introductory page to direct newcomers to also check other resources - like searching the forum for previous replies, looking at CodeGuru articles, or checking MSDN online.
And/or perhaps some netiquette or guidelines "what get's an answer"- e.g. don't post a five-page listing with a "help-it crashes", rep-posting the question once every hour until there's an answer

Peter.

[Roders]

Being new here, and a newbie to vb, I'd like to see a FAQ as you have suggested.

Regards
Roders
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[Sam Hobbs]

I agree with everything you say here.

Something else to add that could be included with "CString <--> int" is "CString <--> char". I posted a suggestion (in the article suggestion forum) for an article describing conversions between CString and char.

Another solution that I have also suggested already is relevant to your comment about "searching the forum for previous replies". In the feedback forum somewhere I suggested that the page for posting a new question could have an interface for the search capability on the page.