Today I am trying to use Windows Live Writer Beta. Previously I
have tried using One Note 2007, MS Word 2007, InfoPath template.
None of these were good enough. Although MS Word 2007 is really
good for writing and quick publishing, but it generates bloated
html, makes you page heavy and also codes look horrible. None of
these have the feature to upload pictures with post. So, you have
to go to the blog website, upload pictures and then edit the post
using the web editor and insert pictures in it. If you do all these
from the web, then the desktop blogging experience does not improve
at all.
Now Windows Live Writer seems to have solved all these problems.
Let’s try publishing a picture:
It’s a pretty interesting picture. For last one week, our
servers running Pageflakes
were almost dying with super high CPU and IO usage. Here you see a
64bit Dual Core Dual Xeon DELL server is at its knees. We finally
resolved the problem last night. It was a near death experience for
us. I will soon write about it. I tried a long time to put some
picture. Did not find any. So, just testing with this.
Let’s try the Google Map embedding. This is my country and Dhaka
is the city where I live.
Let’s try some codes from Visual Studio:
[WebMethod]
[WebOperationAttribute(true, ResponseFormatMode.Json, false)]
public int GetPageVersionNo(int pageId)
{
using (TheFacade facade = new TheFacade())
{
return facade.ThePageflakes.GetPageVersionNo(pageId, Profile.UserName);
}
}
OK, here’s a catch. You cannot paste html to this editor.
You need to switch to Html View in order to paste the html.
But this is much better than going to web editor and doing
it.
So, far it really felt the best editing experiencing. Going to
publish it now. Hope it works…