I used to write my blogposts in Frontpage. As a non-native speaker I do need the spell and grammar check to try to keep some standard. Frontpage produces pretty lean HTML which I pasted into the CS blog entry editor. Office 2007 does not include FrontPage. You are redirected to Publisher for Web content and to Word for writing a blog entry. A blog post by Joe Friend promises clean HTML and publishing straight from Word. So here I am trying this out.
When blogging about .NET CopySourceAsHtml is your friend. It is a VS add-in to copy formatted source code and XML straight into any HTML editor. Let’s give it a try
63 public void ReadLocal()
64 {
65 if (System.IO.File.Exists(naamBestand))
66 ds.ReadXml(naamBestand);
67 }
Looks good in Word.
Another must have is images. An image is uploaded to the CB site after which I can reference it by URL in a blogpost. Let’s try that. Insert picture, create a link to file.
<update>
The image didn't show up. I'll try the other way
</update>
This test is ready to be published. Word 2007 has a manage account dialog to fill in my blog settings. It also has some possibilities to upload pictures together with a post. Something to explore further; provided things work so far.
Now I’m ready to publish. Meet you in CS. I’ll inspect the result there.
<update>
It worked ! Except for the picture. I'll get back on that. The HTML is really clean!
</update>