SharpMT

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RandyRants — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 19:01:09 GMT

Added SharpMTExtension to the SharpMT SLN file Updated ExamplePlugIn and SharpMTPlugIn2 to use the Solution-based SharpMTExtension output Updated the Build Event for ExamplePlugIn and SharpMTPlugIn2 to be configuration independent Removed the VSInstall projects from all three SLN files Fixed a problem with resources that went missing in Pocket SharpMT Added blogExtension.dll to the ext directory for SharpMTPlugIn2

UPDATED RELEASE: SharpMT 4.0 (Nov 17, 2007)

Sun, 18 Nov 2007 01:55:01 GMT

Installer-based bits based off the source included here.

*this does not include spell checking* Only desktop versions distributed at http://www.randyrants.com/sharpmt include spell checking support due to a third party distribution issue.

NEW POST: Initial Release Notes

RandyRants — Sun, 18 Nov 2007 01:30:12 GMT

This ended up being a more complicate release than I anticipated, but since source code and build systems were involved... I should have expected that!

First and foremost, the biggest change from 3.3 to 4.0 version is that I had to pull spell checking from the desktop version. The control I was using is an OCX called Spellican and I've been very happy with it; I'm just not allowed to distribute their bits in a development form. They do have a trial version of the OCX if you want to use it on your own PC but I had to pull all of the hooks for it, to keep the code running. They majority of them are still there and commented out, but I did delete the menu items for it.

Beyond that, I left the structure of the source files in the same tree that I've used them all along. The individual projects all compile in .\Debug or .\Release - I then kept a "Release" directory at the project root, so that I could stage files for the installer. There were also a couple of things - like the plug in support - that had to be compiled in a particular order: I left that as is, because it was working.

All of the installer projects are kept in the VSInstall directory because I used to also have an InstallSHIELD based version of it, but I got rid of that years ago. While I included these project in the three solutions (mostly for the initial check in) they don't have to be there; in fact, I would expect that you'll run them on their own, rather than with each build.

Lastly, as to why I'm releasing the source of these projects: I'm done with them, in all honesty. I started SharpMT because I wanted an offline blog writing client like Ecto (which was Mac only in 2003) and there was no MT-specific alternative at the time: all of the blog writers only support one or two fields and MT had a lot more options that could be supported. Pocket SharpMT and Phone SharpMT came around when they started included hardware-based keyboards on the devices. I grew the projects up over the years, as people asked for new features, but by late 2006 the feature requests simply weren't interesting to me... rather than put the source code into a grave, I changed the version number and have unleashed it on CodePlex. I don't have any active plans to support the code here, but I may stop in from time to time to see how things are going (or answer any questions that I can - what made sense in 2003 may not be as clear in 2007!)

Happy coding!

UPDATED WIKI: Home

RandyRants — Sun, 18 Nov 2007 01:06:49 GMT

Project Description
SharpMT is an offline Blog writer that is designed for MovableType based systems. There are three versions of the application: desktop, PocketPC, and SmartPhone, all of which share the same file format for offline drafts. The project files included have three different versions - one for each platform - as well as installation and help system project files.

The application uses text boxes for post entry: it was a design goal to not support WYSIWYG. It also includes the infrastructure to support plugins and XML-RPC calls that were designed to inteface with MT or TypePad.

Coded in C# it uses the 2.0 version of the .NET Framework and has been through three major revisions since 2003. Other considerations include:
- Spellican.ocx: support for this commented out: Spellican is a paid-for component and could not be included.
- MagicLibrary.dll: required for a lot of the UI work; only the binary is included

In the source you'll find:
\ExamplePlugIn - for SharpMT
\Mobile SharpMT
  \Phone SharpMT - the SmartPhone version (requires the SmartPhone 5.0 SDK or greater installed)
    \Release - the released bits of 4.0 (used by the VSInstall project)
  \Pocket SharpMT - the Pocket PC version (requires the devices options from with VS 2005 or the PPC SDK)
    \Release - the released bits of 4.0 (used by the VSInstall project)
  \SPOpenFileDialog - used by Phone SharpMT, to make up for the lack of common dialogs
\SharpMT - the desktop version (requires .NET 2.0)
  \Help - the compiled chm and raw HTM files
  \Release - the released bits of 4.0 (used by the VSInstall project)
  \SharpMT - source code
\SharpMTPlugIn2 - the interface used by ExamplePlugIn
\VSInstall - VS-based installer bits

UPDATED WIKI: Home

RandyRants — Sun, 18 Nov 2007 01:05:47 GMT

Project Description
SharpMT is an offline Blog writer that is designed for MovableType based systems. There are three versions of the application: desktop, PocketPC, and SmartPhone, all of which share the same file format for offline drafts. The project files included have three different versions - one for each platform - as well as installation and help system project files.

The application uses text boxes for post entry: it was a design goal to not support WYSIWYG. It also includes the infrastructure to support plugins and XML-RPC calls that were designed to inteface with MT or TypePad.

Coded in C# it uses the 2.0 version of the .NET Framework and has been through three major revisions since 2003. Other considerations include:
- Spellican.ocx: support for this commented out: Spellican is a paid-for component and could not be included.
- MagicLibrary.dll: required for a lot of the UI work; only the binary is included

In the source you'll find:
\ExamplePlugIn - for SharpMT
\Mobile SharpMT
\Phone SharpMT - the SmartPhone version (requires the SmartPhone 5.0 SDK or greater installed)
\Release - the released bits of 4.0 (used by the VSInstall project)
\Pocket SharpMT - the Pocket PC version (requires the devices options from with VS 2005 or the PPC SDK)
\Release - the released bits of 4.0 (used by the VSInstall project)
\SPOpenFileDialog - used by Phone SharpMT, to make up for the lack of common dialogs
\SharpMT - the desktop version (requires .NET 2.0)
\Help - the compiled chm and raw HTM files
\Release - the released bits of 4.0 (used by the VSInstall project)
\SharpMT - source code
\SharpMTPlugIn2 - the interface used by ExamplePlugIn
\VSInstall - VS-based installer bits

Source code checked in

RandyRants — Sun, 18 Nov 2007 01:05:17 GMT

Forgot the Help files!

Source code checked in

RandyRants — Sun, 18 Nov 2007 01:00:18 GMT

Initial version: 4.0.0.0

UPDATED WIKI: Home

RandyRants — Sat, 17 Nov 2007 21:58:37 GMT

UPDATED WIKI: Home

RandyRants — Sat, 17 Nov 2007 21:58:25 GMT