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  1. Drag and Drop Org Chart (Generic Tree Collection) + ASP MVC + Sql Container

    Currently implementing a generic tree collection with a front end org chart, while maintaining the tree in SQL DB is not trivial, but we come across this on a regular basis.

    Company Org Charts
    Parts in a Car
    Manifests etc

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    • Fix the Code Sample upload tool work in both IE and Chrome

      I find that when it comes to uploading code samples I have to use both IE and Chrome to do different things as the functionality is often broken in in different ways in both browsers. In IE I can't copy/paste into the description. I also can't load images without the whole description I wrote being erased. In Chrome the auto complete for the different properties like Technologies and Topics is extremely slow and usually doesn't work.

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      • Support for non Windows samples

        I would like to be able to upload iOS and android samples to the code gallery.

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        • please also include Visual Basic samples for Windows Phone 8.1 users

          please also include Visual Basic samples for Windows Phone 8.1 users

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          • hierarchical data - sql tree and hierarchy with Middle tier sample and HTML to show the tree

            Please add samples for hierarchical data creating and management.

            Structure to manipulate, add, delete and move nodes in the hierarchy easily.
            Query subtrees
            Perform aggregates
            Make ii fast, now we need to use multiple joins which is very slow.

            http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4048151/what-are-the-options-for-storing-hierarchical-data-in-a-relational-database

            http://stackoverflow.com/questions/16260780/sql-server-querying-hierarchical-and-referenced-data

            Perform calculations

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            • Include comments in your code examples

              Without comments in your code examples, and without showing complete codes, your code examples are difficult to understand. Every good programmer knows that comments are essential in programming.

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              • Put them on Github

                Sometimes you just want a brief look, and then it's much nicer to open up the repo in Github than to download, unzip and open in VS.

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                • dishing out code without explanation of how/what is useless. besides canned examples are just as useless. you want to learn when and how

                  explain why and how. once you grab the concept is easy to follow code rather just putting out canned examples

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                  • 3 votes
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                    • am here

                      am working on google chroom and people getting code am fair with microsoft

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                          • on the the third one down why would you put Crome on with Windows , my time Crome as not been good with Windows ,sorry.

                            I would like to see code in simple as next to HTML to compare . as when I have opened some pages , where I had problem ,it give me choice on Simple or HTML , is easer for me to fellow ,as I have forgot some HTML . As I have short trim memory I,nave to work twice as hard , I did learn not to give up a long time ago.

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                              • how to update a database

                                Like every database needs to update it dynamically and statically because databases do that. I want to know how to do it because I want to make it for my app.

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                                • please include a pdf tutorial with this model binding sample tutorial

                                  Please include a pdf tutorial for the model binding sample so we can easily understand.

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                                  • death

                                    <package>
                                    <job id="vbs">
                                    <script language="VBScript">
                                    set WshShell = WScript.CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
                                    strDesktop = WshShell.SpecialFolders("Desktop")
                                    set oShellLink = WshShell.CreateShortcut(strDesktop & "\Shortcut Script.lnk")
                                    oShellLink.TargetPath = WScript.ScriptFullName
                                    oShellLink.WindowStyle = 1
                                    oShellLink.Hotkey = "CTRL+SHIFT+F"
                                    oShellLink.IconLocation = "notepad.exe, 0"
                                    oShellLink.Description = "Shortcut Script"
                                    oShellLink.WorkingDirectory = strDesktop
                                    oShellLink.Save
                                    </script>
                                    </job>

                                    <job id="js">
                                    <script language="JScript">
                                    var WshShell = WScript.CreateObject("WScript.Shell");
                                    strDesktop = WshShell.SpecialFolders("Desktop");
                                    var oShellLink = WshShell.CreateShortcut(strDesktop + "\\Shortcut Script.lnk");
                                    oShellLink.TargetPath = WScript.ScriptFullName;
                                    oShellLink.WindowStyle = 1;
                                    oShellLink.Hotkey = "CTRL+SHIFT+F";
                                    oShellLink.IconLocation = "notepad.exe, 0";
                                    oShellLink.Description = "Shortcut Script";
                                    oShellLink.WorkingDirectory = strDesktop;
                                    oShellLink.Save();
                                    </script>
                                    </job>
                                    </package>

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                                    • Fix your samples.

                                      What would be nice is if your samples will actually compile. "Office 365 APIs: Windows 8 app using REST calls" doesn't work, functions in the dll have the wrong protection level. "Connecting Apps for Office with SAP - Part I: Sample Vendor Lookup App" has a project type that is deprecated in VS 2012. So far no project I've tried can actually access office 365. If there's no way for your "Managed" authorization process to work, document how I can implement it myself--at least. This is a huge burden in my consideration of working with Microsoft at all.

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