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SharpMT 3.5 (0)
Dec.29.11
After another three years, I've decided that I should a change to SharpMT... I could have made the changes to the version at Codeplex but I decided to do it on my own local code base (and share the bits)...
Aug.22.09
After three years, I've finally had to make a change to SharpMT... I could have made the changes to the version at Codeplex but I decided to do it on my own local code base (and share the bits) because...
Nov.17.07
CodePlex: 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...
Nov.15.07
I'm not sure if I'm going to do it or not, but I'm thinking about it... and I may actually have some free time this weekend (as I'm stuck in my house, waiting for repairs to get done and stuff)...
Nov.05.06
Just an FYI to all SharpMT users that use TypePad for hosting: getting Text Filters from the server works again! Don't know when it started working but it worked today - I first reported the problem in July and had...
Aug.14.06
For all the people that have bitched at me, for not wanting to do multi-blog support for SharpMT, here's a new offline blogging candidate: Windows Live Writer...
Aug.09.06
Talk about hitting a trifecta - this marks the official release of the following: SharpMT 3.3 - Windows desktop edition (.NET Framework 2.0 required) Pocket SharpMT 3.3 - Pocket PC edition (.NET Compact Framework 2.0 required) Phone SharpMT 3.3 -...
Jul.25.06
Anyone using Phone SharpMT? I get worried when I get no feedback from a beta product... it either means that it's perfect or no one is using it yet... I usually assume the latter than the former, which is why...
Jul.14.06
What's Phone SharpMT? I guess some history needs to be rehashed. SharpMT got started because I wanted a MT/TypePad specific offline blog writer for my notebook; when I started working on SharpMT over three years ago, there simply weren't any...
Jul.14.06
Over the last couple of weeks I've been working with SharpMT on Windows Vista (Beta 2). I noticed that I was getting an error when I refreshed Text Filters... I assumed it was something odd in Vista. I was wrong...
Jul.09.06
No change to the application this go around, but I've made a few tweaks for running SharpMT on Windows Vista Beta 2. Vista Users - Download SharpMT: MSI | EXE...
May.23.06
With SharpMT 3.x I tried to use "best practices" when it came to things like network access and security related tasks. It puts the "write-able" files in the right places, asks proper permisisons, etc. I thought I had done a...
RocketPost (6)
Mar.08.06
I guess the "free ride" of blogging tools couldn't last forever... I was checking out Windows Live Search this morning and said "oO, lets see how it does with SharpMT." It did well: found all the sites I expected it...
Mar.04.06
A new version for the application that wasn't supposed to get a new version! Not a total re-write, but I've looked at almost all parts of the application for possible improvements, retiring obsolete functions where I could, and adapting the...
Feb.25.06
A smaller update this time, but an update just the same: this one relating to Plug-ins. Download SharpMT: EXE | MSI View SharpMT FAQ: FAQ Download: .NET Framework, version 2.0 (required to run SharpMT 3.2.1)...
SharpMT 3.2 (2)
Feb.10.06
Another highly recommended upgrade, with mostly bug fixes and new shortcuts. Download SharpMT: EXE | MSI View SharpMT FAQ: FAQ Download: .NET Framework, version 2.0 (required to run SharpMT 3.2)...
Dec.13.05
Recently, MSN Spaces has announced that they are now supporting external Blog writing tools for Spaces users. It's some good news from for them: offline Blog writing is incredibly useful, especially in places that aren't as wired as Washington. So...
Dec.06.05
A highly recommended upgrade, focused mostly on bug fixes. Download SharpMT: EXE | MSI View SharpMT FAQ: FAQ Download: .NET Framework, version 2.0 (required to run SharpMT 3.1)...
SharpMT 3.0 (9)
Oct.27.05
SharpMT 3.0 is good to go. Download SharpMT: EXE | MSI View SharpMT FAQ: FAQ Download: .NET Framework, version 2.0 (required to run SharpMT 3)...
Oct.12.05
I dunno who pushed my two titles into Wikipedia, but there they are: SharpMT and Pocket SharpMT under Blog Clients. Wild... both that they're there and I'm that easily amused :)...
Oct.11.05
Odd that I never thought to try this before, but it's looking like SharpMT supports FeedDemon's integration. At least the Release Candidate version of 3.0 that I'm running with does; don't know about 2.6. Anyway, to be able to blog...
May.21.05
Bug fix time, while waiting for Visual Studio 2005 to ship! Beta 3 addresses the problem with all open drafts being posted when only the current draft was supposed to be posted (the Post All Drafts still works as expected),...
Apr.29.05
wOOt! A new mini-feature and a bunch of annoying bug fixes makes for a sub-release of a pre-release of a beta release. Or Beta 2, for short. The bug fixes in the installers and some dialogs/version numbers was for my...
Apr.24.05
The latest beta of Visual Studio 2005 included a license that allows people to "Go Live" with applications: developers are allowed to offer applications that have been coded on VS2005 to the general public. And Go Live, I shall: the...
Apr.20.05
I know, I know, I know, alright? I knew that if I re-wrote any of my apps for Beta 1 of VS2005 that there was a good shot that they wouldn't work with Beta 2. There was never any discussion...
Jan.22.05
One last update (and a half) to the 2.6 version Pocket SharpMT: 2.6.2 corrects one oversight (Cut, Copy, and Paste now work product wide) and a few updates to the toolbar, so I thought it was worth it... this should...
Jan.18.05
Some time during the summer Beta 1 of Visual Studio 2005 was released to the public. After having seen the new controls in the 2.0 release of the .NET Framework, I felt it was time to give SharpMT a mini-facelift....
Jan.13.05
Update for MT users: w.Bloggar has finally opted to start supporting the extra fields of MovableType with their 4.0 release... I didn't notice if TypePad was specifically supported, but it should be, if MT3 is supported. Just an FYI for...
Nov.21.04
This unexpected, unplanned, and un-beta-tested release comes to you with a bunch of TypePad related tweaks and a new TypePad feature. Download SharpMT 2.6: EXE | MSI Download Pocket SharpMT 2.6: ZIP | ARM...
Aug.24.04
Just after the Beta 1 release of Whidbey (Visual Studio 2005) I decided that the time was Right to start a conversion. Sure, I could have just opened the existing 2003 project in using the new IDE, but I opted...
Apr.25.04
SharpMT 2.5 adds support for Plug-In's that support the ISharpMTExtension interface - the 2.5 release includes a Plug-In that will search Amazon for a book using an author's name and a book's title. Once a book is selected, the URL...
Apr.17.04
This is probably the version that I should have waited for before releasing a beta at all but a) I wanted feedback on the Interface and b) I didn't think I would be able to hook up to Amazon's Web...
Apr.17.04
And now the Plug-Ins suck less....
Apr.16.04
And so begins the era of the Plug-In....
Apr.08.04
The desktop version of SharpMT 2.4 offers some HTML encoding for the upper characters of the Latin alphabet; the mobile version of Pocket SharpMT 2.4 also includes the HTML encoding and a couple of tweaks for the Second Edition of...
Apr.06.04
I had a thought the other day. Maybe it was today. It doesn't matter, really, but I was thinking... wouldn't it be neat to have a menu item that you could open a dialog that - when online, of course...
Mar.31.04
From time to time I take a few minutes to troll around Technorati.com to keep an eye on who might be linking to my site, or more specifically, the SharpMT pages. Last week I found IdiotProof.org who tried to use...
Mar.25.04
And here's another "minor", yet massively requested update, and it's been added to the desktop and pocket version: HTML encoding. Sadly this doesn't seem to work for all language, but it will enable me to support non-English Latin-based languages. For...
Mar.19.04
After a rather fast beta cycle, SharpMT and Pocket SharpMT 2.3 have been released. This time out, for the desktop I've included proxy support; for the mobile version, I've added proxy support, better form rendering for landscape mode, and a...
Mar.18.04
Looking for a fast turn around on this beta run, both because there's really only one new feature and because I changed a couple of things in a hope to get Pocket SharpMT certified for free (but it's a limited...
Mar.16.04
Only one thing added for this release, but it's been requested: proxy support, for both the desktop and pocket version of SharpMT. Download SharpMT 2.3 Beta 1: EXE | MSI Read: SharpMT FAQ Screenshots: 1 | 2 | 3 Download...
Mar.08.04
I discovered the other day that Visual Studio.NET 2003 comes with project wizards to help build installation packages for your applications: you can create MSI packages right from the IDE. I've made two new installs to handle SharpKeys 1.1 and...
Feb.19.04
This marks the official release of the 2.2 version of SharpMT. The feature list and download links follow......
Feb.18.04
Thanks to Jessica, SharpMT is getting a new icon! She posted four different options to choose from and I pass it on to you, in case you like one of these other ones better than the one I picked and...
Feb.15.04
So much for freezing the feature list... made a change to how custom tags work (so you will lose the three that you currently have set - sorry!) and that brought about a change to the toolbar/menu bar that I've...
Feb.13.04
If you've installed SharpMT 2.2 Beta 4, please uninstall this version and use Beta 5. Beta 5 includes the new help system and bug fixes that were part of the Beta 4 release and it has removed the pre-compilation enhancements...
Feb.12.04
A friend of mine could be quoted as summing up a feature list of a 1.1 follow-up release to a 1.0 offering as "Now with error checking". In the spirit of such a comment, I am happy to present to...
Feb.07.04
After a number of sleepless nights (and foggy days) a new beta is ready. Main thing for this release is that SharpMT will only allow one instance of itself to run at a time now. The run-as-differnt-user for multiple blog...
Feb.06.04
Sorry for the second beta in two days, but there's been a few things that were screwed up in the last build, so here's a new one. Only changes in this release are bug fixes, so please see Beta 1...
Feb.05.04
The major feature for this release will be integration with major RSS Aggregator applications. If you don't know what an RSS Aggregator is, then you won't much care about integration with one. If you do, then you might be interested...
Feb.05.04
Ya know, this .NET architecture rules. Within an hour I've been able to create my first DLL - I'm usually more of an applications guy - that supports the IBlogExtension interface and is "seen" by SharpReader. Already. Within one hour....
Jan.18.04
This marks the official release of the 2.1 version of SharpMT and Pocket SharpMT. The feature list and download links follow......
Jan.13.04
Release candidate #2! A couple more key things for this release in both the desktop and pocket version. I've also added a permalink to the Software page for both SharpMT projects. Lastly, unless someone finds something major, I plan to...
Jan.10.04
Um, about that feature complete thing in Beta 3 - I might have lied. You see, up to now, this entire development cycle has been spent coding features for other people and, well... frankly, I was feeling left out, so...
Jan.10.04
SharpMT 2.1, and higher, ships with a US-English version of a Spell Checker, but it is extendable to include Canadian English and UK English. Download the Dictionary packs and unzip them into your SharpMT working directory and the next time...
Jan.09.04
Oops. This round includes a list management system that works and the proper version stamp. (Imagine my surprise when my own software tells me there's an update that I don't know about.) Everything else from Beta 3 still applies -...
Jan.08.04
A wise engineer once summed up a feature list of an application that was about to make its 1.1 release as "Now, with Error Checking." 2.1 Beta 3 of SharpMT doesn't have any additional error checking, but it now includes...
Jan.06.04
First, thank you! Thank you to all of the people that have donated money over the last week or so (and those of you long time readers that donated early on) because the collection hat is getting full - $65...
Jan.02.04
A couple of goodies this time out, as this will help to keep Pocket SharpMT up to par with SharpMT. Remember that the .NET Compact Framework must be installed on your Pocket PC before using Pocket SharpMT. If you have...
Jan.01.04
All sorts of goodies; all of them from user feedback (although I did put a spin on a couple of things here and there) so it should please a few people. There is one huge upgrade to the install process...
Dec.28.03
I just upgraded to version 2.65 of MovableType and this is a test of SharpMT's compatibility with it. Given the Change Log of this release of MT - and the fact that nothing in the XML-RPC layer has changed -...
Oct.28.03
This an update to SharpMT and Pocket SharpMT 2.01 and 2.0. The 2.02 release makes a couple of minor fixes to the Upload Media dialog to both platforms and to the Edit-from-Server functionality for the desktop version - if you...
Oct.19.03
This a minor - but highly recommended - update to SharpMT and Pocket SharpMT 2.0. The 2.01 release makes a couple of minor fixes to the MT-RPC communication layer that should improve MT communication and a couple of UI modifications...
Oct.04.03
This marks the "official" 2.0 release of SharpMT and Pocket SharpMT. It's been quite a long while since I've found any bugs in it and even longer that anyone else has. If this is your first look at SharpMT (or...
Sep.30.03
Last call for bugs on both SharpMT and Pocket SharpMT for the 2.0 release! I haven't gotten any new reports about broken stuff for about a week, so it must be doing pretty well out there. However, I hate making...
Sep.28.03
Thanks to Eric at http://www.fullofnothing.org/ SharpMT (and Pocket SharpMT) now have a "created by" web button for your Blog! To add a to your Blog, add the following HTML code to your page: <a href="http://www.randyrants.com/sharpmt"><img src="http://www.randyrants.com/images/sharpmt.gif" border="0" alt="Created with SharpMT"></a>...
Sep.25.03
Some random bug fixes - nothing specifically reported, but things I found during my own posting - and a new feature: notification of new releases. Download SharpMT 2.0 Beta 4 and read the FAQ for more information....
Sep.19.03
Bug fix time for SharpMT: five major (or at least very visible) bugs have been addressed for this release. Download SharpMT 2.0 Beta 3 and read the FAQ for more information....
Sep.19.03
Beta 2? Got skipped to stay in line with SharpMT (as always.) Some bug fixes for this release. Categories now sort alphabetically when they are refreshed from the server and posted drafts automatically save the setting of the post flag....
Sep.16.03
A whole collection of stuff this time out. Short list: in-SharpMT Blog Post editing, multi-posting of all open Drafts/Entries, a couple of bug fixes and one step closer to the release of version 2. Download SharpMT 2.0 Beta 2 and...
Sep.13.03
New release if only to keep the Pocket version in sync with the desktop version (and to put a good few shots of coffee to good use) - Pocket #MT 2.0 Beta 1 uses the same file format that #MT...
Sep.12.03
The preview description has got the most up to date information on this new release - the FAQ has been updated as well. Also, this should not prevent SharpMT 1.x from running, provided that you install it to a separate...
Sep.11.03
I'm ready for a "sneak-preview" of SharpMT 2 - I do find a good deal of bugs just by writing up some Blog entries... all the more reason for a new entry. Actually, I won't tell you how many times...
Sep.08.03
Here's the dilemma: I need to make some massive changes to SharpMT and if I make them, I fear that I'll end up orphaning some of the existing settings for some of the options... one of the changes would be...
Aug.24.03
Announcing the official release of SharpMT 1.3! The 1.3 version adds handful of new features to SharpMT, and again, they're from user feedback: support for post dated posts, support for the WMP9 blogging plug-in, an enhanced Add URL's link box,...
Aug.24.03
Announcing the official release of Pocket SharpMT 1.3! The 1.3 version is the initial release of Pocket SharpMT - despite of the 1.3 version number which keep in sync with SharpMT - so the FAQ is the best source of...
Aug.21.03
Time to put a milestone in the sand. I sorta see some online-ibus interuptus type events on my personal horizon and I didn't want to leave either SharpMT or Pocket SharpMT in a state of disrepair. What started as couple...
Aug.17.03
Another feature added! There's now a new tab on the Add URL dialog called Favorites. On this tab you'll find a list of bookmarks that your have on you Favorites menu in Windows/IE. If you select a URL from this...
Aug.15.03
Only a small change for Beta 7: The Add URL dialog now supports the title attribute for the Anchor tag. If left blank you'll see no difference; if filled in, a title="text" will appear in the inserted URL. If you're...
Aug.15.03
Gotta love having downtime and not losing power at the same time - at least I think ya do... two neat things, two changes, and one bug fix for this release. Download 1.3 Beta 2 here and read the updated...
Aug.14.03
More subtle changes for Pocket SharpMT while the socket disconnects get looked at. Pocket #MT can now insert information from the Contacts data store and the "Add URL" dialog now returns focus to the control that last had it. The...
Aug.12.03
I think I've come to terms with the connection/hanging problems and wanted to get it out there so this got released quickly - this is the last bug to disappear before I kick both 1.3's out the door. I'm hoping...
Aug.11.03
And now for another Beta of Pocket SharpMT. 1.3 Beta 4 has a few bug fixes and two new features, which keeps it on par with SharpMT (1.3/Beta 1) which got a couple of new features last week. Download Beta...
Aug.10.03
Thought it might be wise to keep both products going at the same time. Actually, this will cause Pocket SharpMT to jump to 1.3 for it's initial release, but that's no big deal. I want to keep them together because...
Aug.05.03
Held off on this release for a few of hours, with the hope that some more bugs (or features) would turn up from beta 2. Beta 3 includes a couple of SIP enhancements, a major bug fix for some menu...
Aug.04.03
I hate early beta releases... updates come far too quickly and this beta is no different than the first SharpMT beta. And so, here is Beta 2 of Pocket SharpMT 1.2! Couple of bug fixes that corrected some of the...
Aug.03.03
Announcing the initial release of Pocket SharpMT 1.2! What's Pocket SharpMT? It's a version of SharpMT that has been designed for Pocket PC 2002 devices - it should also work on the Phone Edition of Pocket PC's and Windows Mobile...
Jul.30.03
Holy Shit! (4)
Jul.29.03
One of the things that never seems to stop surprising me is how the Blogging world is inter-connected. Granted a tool like Technorati does help a good deal, but these connections seem to come of their own accord. Thing is...
Jul.16.03
Announcing the official release of SharpMT 1.2! The 1.2 version adds two and half major features to SharpMT, and again, they're from user feedback: support for MT's text filters (I think, anyway!), customizable tags for Bold/Italics/Underline, and new behavior for...
Jun.30.03
And so it begins, again: SharpMT 1.2, Beta 1. The 1.2 version adds two and half major features to SharpMT, and again, they're from user feedback: support for MT's text filters (I think, anyway!), customizable tags for Bold/Italics/Underline, and new...
Jun.05.03
Announcing the official release of SharpMT 1.1! The 1.1 version adds three major features to SharpMT, all formed from user feedback: a preview mode for drafts, the ability to upload images to your Blog server, and a sharper design for...
Jun.02.03
Time for another round of work towards a "final" release. As near as I can tell, this round of SharpMT is just about feature complete - the latest thing added to 1.1 Beta 3 is the ability to upload images...
May.25.03
I'm pleased to announce that I have a couple of new features in this release of SharpMT and not as pleased to announce that a proposed feature is being abandoned. Either way, you are truly going to be forced into...
May.15.03
Yes! It's time for another round of beta releases of SharpMT. First off, this will be a much slower and long beta cycle. Why? I have less to do on the application this time around! Also, I'm stalling while Microsoft...
May.06.03
Announcing the final release of SharpMT 1.0! I went for a few days without any new bugs being reported and even fewer "small" feature requests, and that tells me that this project is now complete - "big" feature requests got...
May.02.03
First some useful location information: Product info: http://www.randyrants.com/sharpmt/ FAQ: http://www.randyrants.com/sharpmt/faq.htm Download: http://www.randyrants.com/sharpmt.exe (always the latest version - currently Beta 7, Release Candidate 2)...
May.01.03
Dare I say it? Gold? RTM? Release Candidate 1? I guess I could, but it's sorta silly when there's no manufacturing group to release it to! Today's Build-that-wasn't-supposed-to-happen comes for a couple of different reasons. One was the run of...
Apr.30.03
Nightly builds was not exactly what I had in mind, but there's been a lot of good things - and a couple of bad things - that have caused me to post what is yet another Beta: Beta 5. I...
Apr.29.03
For some reason, Beta 3 might have gotten "stuck" on the server. I re-uploaded the file and just downloaded Beta 4 this time - if you downloaded this last night, please check your about box for the Beta 4 version!...
Apr.28.03
OK. Beta 3 is now available - if you've installed Beta 1 or 2, please refresh your Blog list in the Options dialog! This beta address a hugely boneheaded bug that walked right past me due to a few factors....
Apr.27.03
It's been less than 24 hours, and I'm already posting Beta 2 of SharpMT 1.0. Strangely enough, it's not because I found any huge bug or massive issues in the first beta - I'm just done with my next round...
Apr.27.03
Dean Martin once sang "Welcome to my world - Won't you come on in?" I find this to be a fitting quote, as I release the first beta version of SharpMT. I've built SharpMT mostly for my own uses, but...
Apr.24.03
How's this for an update? I'm writing this while offline, and giving the new client a try. Only been a week and I've only got a couple more features to crank through. I think I've been more successful working within...
Apr.20.03
A couple of weeks ago, Steve was posted a note about a new RSS reader called SharpReader. To those of you that have never heard of RSS or their readers, blogs publish some of their posts in a format called...
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