Windows Live Writer Works (Mostly)

My previous post, A Primer on Using Custom Windows Performance Counters with .NET, was written using Windows Live Writer.  On the whole, I'm pleased.  Writing text was like using Word without all the "please buy an upgrade" features Microsoft has thrown in over the years.

The big disappointment was pasting in code.  If you paste in WYSIWYG mode, it correctly replaces < and > with entity references, BUT, it also strips all the leading spaces.  You can go to HTML mode and manually enter <PRE> and </PRE> tags and paste between the tags, which will preserve your spaces, but not replace < and >.

Microsoft, lets make this work for coders!

Print | posted @ Sunday, August 20, 2006 10:36 AM

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Gravatar # re: Windows Live Writer Works (Mostly)
by Jeff Julian at 8/20/2006 11:22 AM

There is a plugin for code that a developer is working on. Here is a link.

http://deedee.brainstream.net/CodeFormatPluginFuerWindowsLiveWriter.aspx
Gravatar # re: Windows Live Writer Works (Mostly)
by Gabriel Lozano-Moran at 8/20/2006 6:03 PM

There is a syntax higlighter on CodePlex but I don't have the url and also Christoph De Baene has created and release the first version of his syntax highlighter:

http://www.delarou.net/weblog/PermaLink,guid,af38668b-ee76-490a-b628-4baf21e87e60.aspx

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