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in this sticky:

http://forums.msdn.microsoft.com/en-US/vcgeneral/thread/31a8cad3-03ab-4048-96b6-84cb5d1e0980

there is a link that looks like: http://forums.microsoft.com/msdn/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=81136

but it actually goes to

http://forums.msdn.microsoft.com/msdn/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=81136

which does not exist (because of the extra msdn between forums and microsoft)

Can someone please fix it so it goes to the proper link which is:

http://forums.microsoft.com/msdn/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=81136

or the new link that it gets redirected to which is:

http://forums.msdn.microsoft.com/en-US/netfxbcl/thread/ef62be78-e33b-4499-9b1a-d8b96600a10c/

Wednesday, July 9, 2008 9:52 PM

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Update: Currently talking to the team about fixing this.

Ed Price (a.k.a User Ed), SQL Server Experience Program Manager (Blog, Twitter, Wiki)
- Proposed as answer by Ed Price - MSFTMicrosoft employee Monday, February 20, 2012 2:33 AM
- Edited by Ed Price - MSFTMicrosoft employee Monday, February 20, 2012 2:33 AM
- Marked as answer by Ed Price - MSFTMicrosoft employee Thursday, March 15, 2012 2:51 AM
Monday, February 20, 2012 2:33 AM

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A lot of links I my old posts got destroyed the same way. I get alerts from them from users asking for a fix to the link. Ugh.
Hans Passant.

Friday, July 11, 2008 2:48 AM

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Thanks for pointing out guys. I will look at the migration code. It shouldn't be too difficult to fix.
Ram T - Forums Dev

Friday, July 18, 2008 4:03 AM

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OK looked at the migration code and the db. The problem is for posts with links pointing to relative urls. Eg: /msdn/showpost.aspx?postid=81136. I had them create a bug for this. Will keep you guys posted on the progress.
Ram T - Forums Dev

Tuesday, July 22, 2008 5:48 PM

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The problem is that the links got converted to a relative URL. They were originally an absolute URL (http://forums.microsoft.com/blabla).
Hans Passant.

Tuesday, July 22, 2008 6:50 PM

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Wow, this issue still exists today (after 3+ years). Also, the forum is still very active, so it seems to be as big of a need as ever.

I suggest a manual solution: We find a moderator of that forum and then ask them to update the link.

What that means is they need to unlock this thread (http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/vcgeneral/thread/31a8cad3-03ab-4048-96b6-84cb5d1e0980), edit it, and then lock it again.

Thanks Ted!
Ed Price (a.k.a User Ed), SQL Server Experience Program Manager (Blog, Twitter, Wiki)

Thursday, February 16, 2012 6:48 PM

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Update: Currently talking to the team about fixing this.

Ed Price (a.k.a User Ed), SQL Server Experience Program Manager (Blog, Twitter, Wiki)
- Proposed as answer by Ed Price - MSFTMicrosoft employee Monday, February 20, 2012 2:33 AM
- Edited by Ed Price - MSFTMicrosoft employee Monday, February 20, 2012 2:33 AM
- Marked as answer by Ed Price - MSFTMicrosoft employee Thursday, March 15, 2012 2:51 AM
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