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I'm trying out Windows Live writer to post content to my blog.  I was wondering if anyone here has used it before and how popular it's becoming.  I've wanted a tool to blog direct from my mobile, I know that a couple of years back, MSN live spaces allowed you to do that from your mobile. You would email the blog to a special email address generated for you and the content would get posted to your blog.

Pretty neat!

Well here goes .........

I had the pleasure of playing around with one of these this Friday. It's basically a copy in terms of look and feel of the Motorola Razr V3.

I will post up images of the phone , once I'm sure we're allowed to.  

First impressions were the screen could have been bigger as there seems to be a lot of "dead space" around it.  The Micro SD card slot is not plug and play - it's under the SIM slot - even worse!!! Why can't HTC learn from Nokia and have a slot that allows you to remove storage cards without turning the phone off, removing the battery and now removing the SIM?

There would be plenty of space for a normal mini SD card, changing it to a micro SD card just seems senseless.

They have changed the usb connector to a much thinner connector type - so you can't use existing chargers.  What also seems to be the case is the same jack is used for headphones - so you won't be able to charge the phone while headphones are connected.

The clam shell design / look and feel are really nice, but under the covers they have got it wrong. 

Watch this space for photos

I know most of the guys and gals will know this already, but I came accross this while working on a project.  I've been trying to get around this in previous projects.

When you have pre-compiled assemblies (such as Microsoft Application blocks) that are used in your solution and other developers get latest from SourceSafe for the first time, they have to get the assemblies as well. If they are not part of the solution they will get compile errors and have to add the references in again manually which is a pain.

The way around this is to add a folder to your solution called something like "Solution Items" and put all the pre-compiled DLLs in there.  That way they are all kept in one place and in Source control..  Also when you want to update them to latest versions then other developers will just have to get latest from SourceSafe and they don't get the nasty "missing reference to assembly errors"