Windows Live Writer

So I figured I’d check out Windows Live Writer and see what all the buzz is about.

Update: With a plugin I can now copy from Visual Studio, huzzah!

Con – Doesn’t preserve syntax highlighting when copying from Visual Studio.
Pro – With This Plug-in you can paste code from Visual Studio

 #light

// Simple F# program to exercise fsc.exe

type Season = 
    | Spring 
    | Summer 
    | Fall 
    | Winter
    override this.ToString() =
        match this with
        | Spring -> "Spring"
        | Summer -> "Summer"
        | Fall   -> "Fall"
        | Winter -> "Winter"

let genSeasonTuples monthRange season =
    monthRange |> List.map (fun monthInd -> (monthInd, season))

let monthSeasonList =   (genSeasonTuples  [1 .. 3]  Spring) 
                      @ (genSeasonTuples  [4 .. 6]  Summer) 
                      @ (genSeasonTuples  [7 .. 10] Fall) 
                      @ (genSeasonTuples [11 .. 12] Winter)
let monthSeasonMap = Map.ofList monthSeasonList

open System

let currentMonth = DateTime.Now.Month
let currentSeason = monthSeasonMap.[currentMonth]

printfn "Current season = %s" (currentSeason.ToString())
Console.WriteLine("(press any key)")
Console.ReadKey(true)

Pro – Inserting images is really easy

Comments

• Anonymous
  April 24, 2008
  http://gallery.live.com/liveItemDetail.aspx?li=b516cc7b-cea9-497a-9d6e-f6fed9f72d29&bt=9&pl=8 Try this, it works pretty well.

• Anonymous
  April 24, 2008
  Hi Chris, you can find many plugins for WLW that allow you to insert syntax highlighted code into your posts. I think there are at least 3-4 different plugins for syntax highlighting. However, finding one that also supports F# will probably be more difficult... ;) Mathias

• Anonymous
  April 25, 2008
  Hey Chris, You need the Paste from Visual Studio plug-in for Live Writer: http://gallery.live.com/liveItemDetail.aspx?li=d8835a5e-28da-4242-82eb-e1a006b083b9&bt=9&pl=8 When you copy code from Visual Studio to the clibpoard, one of this clipboard formats preserves the syntax highlighting as RTF. This plug-in simply translates the RTF clipboard format to HTML. So, it supports any language that's already syntax highlighted in Visual Studio.

• Anonymous
  May 06, 2008
  Or, you could just use the CopyAsHTML plugin that has been the de facto for a long time.