New VisualBlogger 2004 Build Posted - Beta 2a

Wanted to give you guys a heads-up and let you know that I've posted a new build of VisualBlogger 2004. I'll post the official fix list tomorrow for the Support Feed, but for now here is a brief overview:

  • All icons now have tooltips. No more guessing on what an icon does.
  • Feedback submission is now globalized. Users in the UK can now submit bug reports.
  • Dialogs have been modified to resize gracefully.
  • Menu button bars can now be moved and readjusted without hiding UI elements. That means you can now move the sideways buttons that everyone hates onto the top row. Unfortunately, it doesn't remember your settings between executions, but that will be tackled later.
  • DotTextSimple provider has been adjusted to allow users to specify custom endpoints. This allows home-grown bloggers to implement the service in their system, and use VisualBlogger 2004 to access it.
  • Startup time has been adjusted. We're now waiting to databind the blog list on the "Post Options" tab until you actually switch to it. Shaved 2-3 seconds off the load time.

Here's a screenshot with the menu items moved (it still defaults to "low-profile" mode).

The main UI is working a bit more how I wanted it to. I know it has lots of other problems, but those were some of the ones that were most complained about. I know the UI still sucks, but it doesn't suck as bad now that you can move things around without screwing up the whole system. If you've already registered for the beta, then you can download it directly here. If not, you'll be automatically redirected to the registration page first.

4 Comments

  • Robert this looks great. One thing I would like to see from you is to clarify the future of your tool. You need to post something to confirm if you intend to sell this tool or give it for free. I think it's honest for people to know what they should expect when they spend some time beta testing a product. Your tool is coming well, but people want to know what to expect. Anyway good job, and I hope to see more bugs fixed in the back end :-)

  • Your link fails, at least for me.

  • I was hoping that Pingback/Trackback would do this for me. But alas no. I've done a little testing of Visual Blogger and posted the bugs I found on my blog. Let me know if you need me to submit these the old fashioned way.



    Thanks for a useful tool.

  • Robert,



    I downloaded Beta 2a and "installed" it and really liked the looks of it. However, it didn't work for me. This is probably because I'm behind a firewall/proxy and I didn't see any settings for this. (The bug report also didn't seem to work (unless you got them) because of this same issue.)



    I also tried adding the proxy settings to the config file via the system.net section but that didn't work either....

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