I've decided to take the VisualBlogger beta for a test drive. While I certainly appreciate the effort that has been into the .Text editor, I've pretty much had it with all the quirkiness. w.bloggar doesn't support cross-posting (VisualBlogger does), plus VisualBlogger has built in code formatting/highlighting/etc. Test driving the formatter for the Dispose pattern:
1 ///
2 /// Clean up any resources being used.
3 ///
4 protected override void Dispose( bool disposing )
5 {
6 if( disposing )
7 {
8 if(components != null)
9 {
10 components.Dispose();
11 }
12 }
13 base.Dispose( disposing );
14 }
That's pretty cool stuff! One gripe: the VisualBlogger editor puts everything on the same line (no line breaks, hitting Enter starts a new paragraph)...argh!
Update: Why is the formatting so crappy? ->> [see update #2]. I tried to send a bug report via VisualBlogger's built in reporting tool, but it craps out w/ an exception. How did this product make it through 2 betas???
Update #2: The title of this post should now read “First Post via Hand Editing VisualBlogger HTML”. I fixed the formatting issues (all the text was getting thrown into a DIV tag...wtf). The HTML generated by VisualBlogger is absolutely horrid. _sigh_, what's a blogger to do? As a side note, none of the support tools (either in VisualBlogger or on their site) work, all the RSS feeds on their site link to nothing. Not a pleasant experience, and it reminds me as to why I rarely test beta software.
Posted
Aug 01 2004, 06:55 PM
by
Jayson Knight