Donkblog
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