Guoqiang Wu's Blog

Very very cool!

I think this is great, I've been looking for an Office tool that would allow me to post directly to my Blog, the spelling and grammar checking in Office is invaluable.

I'm having an issue however, it won't Login. It keeps telling me that the "Username or Password is invalid (or unsupplied)"

Well, just to verify that I wasn't stupid, I logged in several times through the website, just to make sure that they were valid.

Any ideas?

I'm using the MetaBlog API for CS with the WebService (blogservice.asmx)

Michael Trefry
michael@trefry.net
http://www.trefry.net/blogs/michael

I'm trying this out on my blog on blogs.msdn.com, and I can't get it to work. I've used the same settings as on your screenshots (server: http://blogs.msdn.com/ and service URL: http://blogs.msdn.com/blogservice.asmx), but when I attempt to get recent posts, or try any other action that needs to hit the server, it times out - e.g. "Unable to retrieve categories list. Exception: The operation has timed-out."

So far, I've only tried this from within MS - do you think there are issues going through a proxy server, or is there something else going on?

btw - I, for one, really appreciate your work on this. I had written a tiny blog poster for .Text, and gave up when trying to get it to work on CS.

That worked for logging in, but now, I get errors when getting recent posts (value cannot be null), but can get by those.

The biggest problem is when making a new post, I get this error:

System.Xml.XmlException
The data at the root level is invalid. Line 1, position 1.
at System.Xml.XmlTextReader.ParseRoot()
at System.Xml.XmlTextReader.Read()
at System.Xml.XmlValidatingReader.ReadWithCollectTextToken()
at System.Xml.XmlValidatingReader.Read()
at System.Xml.XmlLoader.Load(XmlDocument doc, XmlReader reader, Boolean preserveWhitespace)
at System.Xml.XmlDocument.Load(XmlReader reader)
at System.Xml.XmlDocument.LoadXml(String xml)
at CSBlogger.CSBlogger.GetNodeInnerXml(IXMLDOMNode nd)
at CSBlogger.CSBlogger.UpdateHtmlSource(IXMLDOMNode ndPost)
at CSBlogger.CSBlogger.Posts_Post_SourceMode_attr_OnAfterChange(DataDOMEvent e)
at Microsoft.Office.Interop.InfoPath.SemiTrust._DataDOMEventSink_SinkHelper.OnAfterChange(DataDOMEvent pDataDOMEvent)

Thanks, with this version I was successfully able to post to my blog! Like I said before, the spelling and grammar checking are invaluable to me, since I'm good at neither, so I will be using this tool a lot!

With that said, there are still a few quirks that I know will annoy me to no end. For example, the latest posts tab seems to pull them down in no particular order whatsoever, and I'm still getting some weird token errors when refreshing that.

So what I was wondering, since you don't have a 1.0 installation to work with, if you'd be ok with releasing the project to me to work on, I can go through, tidy up the bugs, and give any changes back to you.

Just an idea, I hate to keep bothering you with little things.

On that CS 1.0 Blog account, if you want to register at my site, I can create a blog for you test with. Just go register at http://www.trefry.net and email me (michael@trefry.net) the userid you registered with, I'll create blog for you.

Actually, a better place would be the other site I'm developing. It's still being worked on, so testing here would be more appropriate.

register at http://www.onthesoapbox.net then again, email the userid to me at michael@trefry.net

It returned a PostID for me after posting.

Have you thought about releasing the code for this project?