Windows Live Writer Test and Some of My First Thoughts

This is the first post using Windows Live Writer. The first thing is that this fancy tool is able to get my entry posted. After a few setting steps, I am able to find the categories and my previous post here, so seems everything should be ok.

The reason I prefer using English in my first Live Writer post is that I just wanna test the spelling check. But I am sorry to say it is still not as perfect as I expect - no *REAL* time spell check... You have to click 'Check Spelling' button manually. Anyway, much better than the online editor now.

Here I wanna try to insert a local image here to see whether it can publish it to web properly. I just found Live Writer provides a very cool feature - add border to the image. here I'd like to see if the Photopaper border works. (Also added a watermark text.)

 

I've viewed the HTML source code this tool generated and that looks really clean and functional - no style or layout code. That's a GREAT improvement for Microsoft editors (remenber FrontPage or Word or even Visual Studio HTML?).

And when composing this post, I am expecting the following features/improvements in the coming release:

1. password protection. I do not want anyone who is using my computer can write on my blog.
2. easier to set font size, font family. etc.
3. 'Insert Code' dialog just like the web one.
4. real time spell check.
5. more settings, such as 'Publishing to Front Page' or 'Search Engine Friendly Name'.

Anyway, it is really a good enough tool for almost every blogger. Easy to use and powerful.

Still, I will also try to modify the post after publishing.

Try a piece of C# code below. Thanks for cathsfz's help!

[WebMethod]
public string GetCustomersByCountry(string country)
{
CustomerCollection customers = DataContext.GetCustomersByCountry(country);
if (customers.Count > 0)
return ViewManager.RenderView("customers.ascx", customers);
else
return ViewManager.RenderView("nocustomersfound.ascx");
}

 Here's some text in Chinese, let's see whether the encoding works or not:

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