BlogThis and SharpReader 0.9.0.1

Scott wrote, of Luke writing:

SharpReader 0.9.0.1 has been released. This version has the following changes:

• Added a "File | Open" menu-item.
• Added a "File | Subscribe" menu-item.
• Mark updated items in italics.
• Added a label before the address text box; ALT-D selects address text box.
• Fixed KeepAlive bug that sometimes kept connections open too long.
• Fixed bug in proxy authentication.
• Better retry-mechanism for failed webrequests.
• Fixed infinite post-threading.
• Fixed unnecessary ListView refresh issue.
• Added debug-statements at app-startup to find Win98/WinME problems. If you're running Win98 or WinME, please try to run SharpReader and send me the sharpreader.log file after it fails. Hopefully this will give me some more information that may help resolve this bug.
• Open links in external browser now always goes to the system default browser.
• implement Simon Fell's BlogThis plugin interface. If you save your plugin into a "plugins" subdirectory, SharpReader will find the plugin and make it available in the listview popup menu (shortcut ^B). Simon's last drop of Relaxer uses this plugin mechanism to post to RESTLog. Make sure you do NOT put IBlogThis itself in the plugins directory as this causes .NET to load this interface twice. Since SharpReader will use one copy of IBlogThis and your plugin another, SharpReader will not be able to find the plugin (because it will implement the wrong copy of IBlogThis)

[Luke Hutteman's public virtual MemoryStream]

Well, read the above. Great work Luke.

BTW, this was post was made with the ASPNETWebLog BlogThis Plugin..its not perfect (OK, its not even close, but it works pretty well). You can get it here.

OK, now this is what I call suh-weet! :-)

Not only has Luke managed to make SharpReader better, including fixing a bug that was annoying the heck out of me (the column width of the feeds window kept getting reset if I exited SR), but by adding the plug-in model and BlogThis, it's now easier than ever to provide follow-ups on what others are blogging, and without having to manually build all the URLs, formatting, etc.

Well, OK, it would be suh-weet if I could actually post from BlogThis, but it's not working for me (yet). I'm just getting a nice little message box that says "Your post was not successful". I'll be patient, since this looks like it'll be worth the wait.

BTW - I wrote most of this entry in BlogThis, invoked from SharpReader, so much of the formatting/quoting pain was still reduced, I just had to open a browser to actually post it.