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Adventures into the world of amateurgramming. I'll leave the programming to the professionals.

One of the nice things about Windows Live Writer is that lets you edit your blog in the same style...

Date: 08/16/2009

Last weekend I took a safety class to get my motorcycle license.  At the end of the class you...

Date: 05/29/2009

During the very late stages of development for the last version of Windows Live Writer we found a...

Date: 05/20/2009

Sometimes, you can be just in the groove when typing your blog entry, and the last thing you want to...

Date: 05/20/2009

Users can enable verbose logging in Windows Live Writer which will cause the application to log some...

Date: 05/19/2009

So you’ve found a great video on YouTube (or SoapBox) and you want to share that video with your...

Date: 05/04/2009

Like a lot of programs, there are always some things that Live Writer doesn’t do that you’d like it...

Date: 05/01/2009

Sometimes you can be on a webpage and think, this is great, I’d like to blog about this. Well, if...

Date: 04/27/2009

Recently, I reflected on all the cross team components we depend on for Windows Live Writer. ...

Date: 04/22/2009

Today starts a mini series within the Windows Live Writer Tip series where the tips are written by...

Date: 04/22/2009

Its pretty common that bloggers want to link back to an old post. Instead of going to the browser...

Date: 04/20/2009

From inside of Windows Live Writer you can easily add a copyright or registered symbol using...

Date: 04/19/2009

One of the most requested features of Windows Live Writer is ‘find and replace’.  This is the...

Date: 04/16/2009

Many users have found the word count feature until the “Tools” menu.  It is possible to turn on...

Date: 04/09/2009

It is possible the categories on your blog can get out of sync with your blog.  This will most...

Date: 04/08/2009

Michigan State, my alma mater, beat University of Connecticut to advance to the NCAA championship...

Date: 04/04/2009

Windows Live Writer has an automatic save feature.  This is different then “Auto-Recover” which...

Date: 04/02/2009

In the past month there have been 3 reports from users that Windows Live Writer will not start...

Date: 03/31/2009

In grade school, classroom seating charts always felt so restrictive.  It always bothered me...

Date: 01/30/2009

I like to find out what people are saying about Windows Live Writer, I guess it is a guilty pleasure...

Date: 12/31/2008

Earlier today I grabbed some of the Apple Usage App Store data from Charles Teague. I wanted to see...

Date: 12/19/2008

We have released an updated extension for Firefox that lets you launch Windows Live Writer from the...

Date: 12/12/2008

With our last beta release of Windows Live Writer we included a new feature to upload videos...

Date: 11/18/2008

By the end of reading this post you will either think: Wow, Microsoft really wants a great...

Date: 09/18/2008

I have seen this come up a lot in in my lifetime, long before I got into computers and software...

Date: 08/25/2008

Image via Wikipedia Zemanta recently released a new plugin for Windows Live Writer.  It opens...

Date: 08/20/2008

https://windowslivewriter.spaces.live.com/default.aspx?wa=wsignin1.0   We just shipped our...

Date: 06/02/2008

Date: 05/28/2008

In the past month I have seen a few blogs discuss that Windows Live Writer sends credentials to the...

Date: 05/22/2008

I ran into a problem the other day at work where I had put in an assert to verify that a timer I was...

Date: 04/28/2008

I was fiddling with some WPF stuff the other day and I needed the handle to the form.  Windows...

Date: 04/11/2008

      Just trying a test post with a picture, most people can ignore.  Though,...

Date: 03/28/2008

Windows Live has teamed with Facebook, Bebo, Tagged, LinkedIn, and Hi5 to share contact information...

Date: 03/25/2008

Integer overflows happen when an operation is performed on an numeric type that causes it to go over...

Date: 03/24/2008

Sometimes you might run into a case where you want to know the type of an object you are dealing...

Date: 03/17/2008

There are 2 types main types of render blocks.  On one hand there are <%= %> style render...

Date: 03/14/2008

When you use the OpenFileDialog to allow your users to select files there are actually different...

Date: 03/13/2008

  What's the Assembly Version Good For? Using assembly version is a wonderful way for someone...

Date: 03/11/2008

Request.PathInfo gives you what is past the file name but before '?' which starts the query...

Date: 03/10/2008

Lazy loading in properties is very common.  It is a relativity simple concept of only loading...

Date: 03/07/2008

I overheard two of my coworkers the other day talking about it and I actually ran into it myself the...

Date: 03/06/2008

Singularity the C# operating system with many new and cool ideas.  And it has finally gone...

Date: 03/05/2008

I have often time seen filesystem interaction code that heavily depends on exception handling. ...

Date: 03/04/2008

Exception based logic is one of those things that actually makes me cringe when I see it. ...

Date: 03/03/2008

Alt+tab is a common operation for Windows users.  Once a user masters the skill they can...

Date: 02/29/2008

If you have a Windows Live Hotmail Account you can actually check your email in Outlook with the...

Date: 02/28/2008

Often times I will be debugging some code and I want to see a return value of a function; but the...

Date: 02/27/2008

The Back Story A very long time ago, maybe it was even as much as 2 years ago now, I wanted to...

Date: 02/26/2008