So its been almost a month since I’ve uploaded my Windnows Live Writer Plugin (Sharper Photo) and I see that i’s been downloaded about 250 times, which perhaps is not a big number but its more than I would have expected, the pluging is cool and I think I still can inprove it a little more but for now I don’t have much time, anyway its nice to see some people have at least check it out. I don’t plan on making any updates to the pluging anytime soon but I might post a link to the WIX installer file that I used to create the MSI installer file.

I finally finish developing the first version of a windows live writer plugin which I ended up calling “Sharper Photo” with the idea is that the plugin will help you modify you post photos to make them sharper (better).

It took me a while to get the pluging finished because I needed to create an installer package (.msi) but since I was using c# express i was out of luck so i had to learn a little bit of WIX and with the help of the SharpDevelop .NET editor I was able to use the WIX tools to create the installer for the pluging. I submitted the plug-in to the Windows Live Gallery and now I am waiting for approval, hope it gets approved soon so it can be available soon.

So far I am not very happy with the look of my blog, its almost the way i want it but I am still missing  a nice image header and perhaps some thing that looks a little bit more pro. if you know of a cool blogger template let me know i really like the colors that I have specially the red post tittles.

It’s been a while since the last update to the windows live writer plugin that I am developing so I’ll give a quick update about the progress: so far so good :) it is coming along very nice, and very slow because I usually get to work on it on my “spare” time.

The plugin is looking pretty cool I added some cool icon, refactored some code and now the “quick fix” feature works for reducing the image quality, pretty much now I need to work on the integration with the major picture editing programs out there.

 

So I’ve been working on a pet project of mine, a windows live writer plugin, and I figure I would like to share the organizational structure of my Visual C# express edition project that I use to create the plugin. I’ve called it Jplug for now (short for Jose’s pluging)

Can you tell what is wrong with this picture?

What about this one:

The first picture is the new project dialog of visual C# 2008 Express Edition, and the second one is a C# project in Visual C# express, which I am working on, if you are very good at spotting missing things you would know by now that in both cases, the picture is missing the unit test projects.

Unit test is as important in SDLS as it is debugging and as well as requirement and analysis, but luckily there are Unit testing frameworks that can be used with the Express editions of visual studio, such as NUnit.

Here is an example about Setting up NUnit for C# Unit Testing with Visual Studio C# Express 2008

While I was looking at the code from the zemanta plugin for windows live writer, I found a like of code that seemed rather funny to me, but I would take this any day over no comments at all :)

Also got to love the naming of the function (fixTheFocusBug) right to the point :)