Wednesday, September 27, 2006

Windows Live Writer 1.0 Beta Update

Writer Zone - New Release! Windows Live Writer 1.0 (Beta) Update with Windows Live Gallery

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The following is a summary of the changes in the Writer 1.0 (Beta) Update:

  • Tagging support
  • Support for Blogger Beta
  • Categories are sorted by name and support scrolling, plus improved support for reading categories from your blog
  • Improved startup performance
  • Paste is enabled for Title region and TAB/SHIFT+TAB navigation between title and body supported
  • Insert hyperlink added to context menu when text is selected
  • Title attribute in Insert Link dialog
  • Custom date support for Community Server
  • Improved keyboard shortcuts for switching views
  • Change spell-check shortcut key to F7
  • Add ‘png’ to insert image dialog file type filter
  • More robust image posting to Live Spaces
  • Improved style detection for blogs 
  • Fixed issues with pasting URLs and links
  • Remember last window size and position when opening a new post
  • Open post dialog retrieves more than 25 old posts

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An update to the WLW 1.0 Beta has been released. Posting with it now...

Install was smooth, upgrading my existing install in-place, and best of all my plugin still works (yeah!).

BTW, This weekend I plan on finishing up v1.2 of my plugin (addressing remaining Code Analysis items, adding an About box, etc) and submitting it to the WLW Gallery.  ;)

Biggest thing I like so far in this WLW update? The ability to cut-n-paste in the Title region... It's always the little things isn't it?

Things I need to submit as feedback;

  • When inserting a Link, if the Clipboard contains a URL, prepopulate the Link URL: field.
  • Add a Paste Special or Paste as Plain Text option
  • Provide real time spell and grammar checking (i.e. like Word)(I'd bet big this is already on their list...)

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Hey Greg,

Good list of feedback for Writer- we've got those things on our list for a future release (they are high priority items for us right now, I'd say).

Thanks for trying out Writer!

Charles Teague (MSFT Writer Team)

Greg said...

Rock on...

Thanks for the update (in both senses ;)

Unknown said...

The latest version works with blogger beta well