Thanks for the new way of adding an image to a post. :-)

Question

This was my old link regarding "How to insert a picture...":>>

http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/vbgeneral/thread/33bf2119-5f56-40b2-a689-d437ec09e550

 

 

Hi ALL,

 

Especially to the developers of this forum.  :-)

 Thank you for finally adding an Add / Edit image feature to the forums.  :-D

For anyone yet to discover this see below.

When adding a post click on the icon as highlighted in the red oval below.

It put a smile on my face!!  LOL!!

 

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Regards,

John

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Click this link to see how to insert a picture into a forum post.

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Answer 1

Yep it's better than posting a link to a shared picture on a pictures hosting site somewhere.

Allan

 

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Big Al

Answer 2

Yep it's better than posting a link to a shared picture on a pictures hosting site somewhere.

Allan

 

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Big Al

Hi Big Al,

Even better than editing the HTML too by adding a

<img src="Wherever on the internet link here" />

:-D

 

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Regards,

John

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Click this link to see how to insert a picture into a forum post.
Or see
Click this link to see the NEW way of how to insert a picture into a forum post.

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Answer 3

Hi John,

I was very interested in learning how to include a picture in my post so I tried your suggestion.

I got as far as selecting an image via Browse but the button "Insert" was not available to me, i.e it was shaded and didn't respond to a click.

Any ideas?

 

Regards Ron

 

Answer 4

Hi Ron,

Try the other way, please click the 1st link.

Click this link to see how to insert a picture into a forum post.
Or see 
Click this link to see the NEW way of how to insert a picture into a forum post. 

 

Maybe the image you have selected is too large or it is not the right format for these forums.

Try using a .BMP image or a .JPG image, that is if you are trying the method in the 2nd link.

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John

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Click this link to see how to insert a picture into a forum post.
Or see
Click this link to see the NEW way of how to insert a picture into a forum post.

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Answer 5

Answer 6

Thanks John,

I used a .jpg image as a test so maybe it was too large.

What is the size limit of the image that can be inserted?

I just tried inserting a 44 Kb .jpg image using the NEW way and it worked fine. (I then deleted it!")

 

Regards Ron

 

Answer 7

Thanks John,

I used a .jpg image as a test so maybe it was too large.

What is the size limit of the image that can be inserted?

I just tried inserting a 44 Kb .jpg image using the NEW way and it worked fine. (I then deleted it!")

 

Regards Ron

 

Hi Ron,

If there is a size limit I am not aware of it and I do not know, sorry.

The reason being is that I do not have any control over these forums, and I'm not a moderator, and I do not work for Microsoft.

 

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Regards,

John

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Click this link to see how to insert a picture into a forum post.
Or see
Click this link to see the NEW way of how to insert a picture into a forum post.

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Answer 8

 

Hi Ron,

If there is a size limit I am not aware of it and I do not know, sorry.

John & Ron,

see this blogpost from Brent Serbus: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/addeditdelete/archive/2011/08/04/inserting-images-in-forums-posts.aspx about the limitation of the insert image feature.

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If you have got questions about this, just ask.

In a perfect world,
users would never enter data in the wrong form,
files they choose to open would always exist
and code would never have bugs.

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Answer 9

Hi Hannes,

Thanks for the link.

To save anyone clicking to have a read the image limit is 1MB

 for the newer method of adding an image.

Here is a quote from that article:>>

 

"Clicking this will enable the user to select a local file (.png, .jpg .bmp or .gif) and insert it into their post.

There are two important limitations for including images:

 1. users can only include a maximum of 2 images per post.

2. The maximum size for an image is 1MB. "

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