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    Autolink URLs.  Most professional forum software packages support this.  If a URL is contained within the post when its published the forum will automatically make a clickable link out of it.
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    Chris Hanscom - Microsoft MVP
    Resource Center | Veign's Blog | Web Development Help
    Friday, August 1, 2008 3:47 PM

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    Yes!

    Or at least, if you paste an URL into the reply window, select it, and click the link button, have the software recognize that the text is a link and fill in *both* the Link Text *and* URL entries.

    David Wilkinson | Visual C++ MVP
    Friday, August 1, 2008 3:56 PM
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     http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/suggest/thread/35a3fbb7-d9db-4898-87d9-cde9b0ea2d7e

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    Never ever approach a computer saying or even thinking "I will just do this quickly".
    Monday, March 16, 2009 9:40 PM
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    Every time I paste a URL in here, it automatically creates a link... like this:

    http://social.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/suggest/threads#page:1;filter:unreadreplies

    what are you doing that it isn't automatically created? (I copied this from the address bar and pasted it here)
    Matt Fraser, STO Forums Software Developer
    Tuesday, March 17, 2009 3:25 AM
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    Matt:

    Ah yes, it works in IE. But not on my browser (SeaMonkey, which is much the same as FireFox). A link just pastes as text.

    Frankly, the composition window is very very poor, and has other specific defects in SeaMonkey/FireFox (behavior of the font/size dropdown in particular).

    Is the composition window being completely replaced in 4.0? The one in the old 2.0 forums was much better, IMHO.
    David Wilkinson | Visual C++ MVP
    Tuesday, March 17, 2009 10:29 AM
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    Composition window will be inline in 4.0. The editor itself will be TinyMCE. We demoed the new version at the Mvp Summit and we're hoping to possibly get a preview/ctp build out soon.
    Rob J, Forums Dev
    http://twitter.com/robjoh
    Tuesday, March 17, 2009 5:02 PM
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    Rob:

    Yes, I was there. It looks good. I saw that the editor was inline, but was not sure that it was actually a different editor.

    I find the existing editor so bad that I cannot imagine that this will not be an improvement.

    When is "soon"?
    David Wilkinson | Visual C++ MVP
    Wednesday, March 18, 2009 12:26 PM
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    We'll send out a notice when the preview is generally available, I expect that to be in a day or so at this point. 
    Rob J, Forums Dev
    http://twitter.com/robjoh
    Thursday, March 19, 2009 2:26 AM
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    What about the auto-linking or URLs which are pasted into posts?  This is such a basic feature of forums that should be included in an update.
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    Chris Hanscom - Microsoft MVP
    Resource Center | Veign's Blog | Web Development Help
    Monday, April 20, 2009 2:54 PM