I always wrote posts online, and without a wysiwyg editor… Trying Live Writer for a change.

Looks really nice so far! Can’t believe how effective it is… Ah! You can turn off all of the "smart quote" and emoticon replacement business. :). That’s good. Now – let’s try a code block…

Yep – there’s a live writer plugin for syntaxhighlighter. Here goes:

namespace Case02_JustGate
{
    public class Startup
    {
        public void Configuration(IAppBuilder builder)
        {
            builder
                .Use<AppTaskDelegate>(Middleware.LogRequests)
                .RunDirect(App);
        }

        private void App(Request req, Response res)
        {
            res.ContentType = "text/plain";
            res.Write("You did a {0} at {1}", req.Method, req.Path);
            res.End();
        }
    }
}

Also – my request to the world – if you’re going to have an emoticon graphic in your app – please make it as simple as possible. No boggle-eyed animated yellow smiley faces donning sunglasses and whistling please. What would be wrong with taking just the characters themselves, rotating them 90 degrees, and let them keep the same color and stroke weight as the normal font?

:) becomes image – know what I mean? image