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Why not allow a user option to filter out questions with uploaded code and have it default to filter? Did you see Code Project's Browser add-in that allows a user to browse postings from within Visual Studio and open up the project in VS with a single click? Too cool. A much higher percentage of higher quality answers would be provided if people could open up the code and tweak it to find the solution.

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    So you are ready to move to a competing web site with possibly less visitors and less quality answers, just to be able to upload some code? That feature must be really important to you :) Commented Apr 10, 2010 at 20:04
  • I too agree that uploading code would be nice. It can be viewed or not as the answerer desires. Alas, those with the "keys" (and many others) do not agree. Commented Apr 11, 2010 at 1:55
  • I'm not just ready to move. I'm ready to implement a similar site with this ability. Commented Apr 12, 2010 at 13:40
  • @Pecka: Why do you assume that lower quality answers are associated with the ability to upload code? I would argue the quality would go UP! if the "questions" were runnable code that didn;t have to be reproduced with great effort, the reviewer could dig into the problem with great focus instead of generalities. Further, the code answer would be of more value. The only hurdle is to provide a way to significantly the amount of code uploaded and to pro grammatically render it for the lazy freaks Commented Aug 3, 2011 at 3:16

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Users aren't restricted from sharing code-samples. In most of my javacript answers, I refer to items I've posted on jsbin.org, and users are typically able to navigate there with ease. I'm not sure an actual problem exists.

If you need to share code, perhaps you should consider http://pastebin.org/

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You can always share snippets of code that is relevant to the problem; that's what the "format as code" option (with the binary icon) is for.

It's not often that one needs to include more code than is allowed by the rather large length limit. Can you give an example of where this would be useful?

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The idea of hosting bigger chucks of code than can reasonable be posted inline was rejected because "Help me [do|fix|complete] my project." is not a question in the Stack Overflow sense of the word.

In other words, the fact that you can not do this isn't a problem for Stack Overflow.

If you have a specific problem, show us a limited (preferably minimal) code sample that exhibits the problem. As a bonus you may learn something (or even fix the problem yourself) while preparing the abstracted version of the code.

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Did you see Code Project's Browser add-in that allows a user to browse postings from within Visual Studio and open up the project in VS with a single click? Too cool.

Gak!

All the world is not running Microsoft's platform.

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  • +1 alternatively, if really really need be, post your code to pastebin.org or one of the dozens of other similar sites. Commented Apr 10, 2010 at 20:05
  • Yep, or a link to your repository if is public. Commented Apr 10, 2010 at 20:25
  • Gak! What are you implying? That this feature would only be available for MS sample code? I can live with that. Commented Apr 12, 2010 at 13:45

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