Introduction
I love technology blogging, now a days it's become my passion. Since the inception of my blog (www.ASPDotNetChamp.com), I have lot of
troubles to write my articles, to show my output of my demo, convert code from VB.NET to C# and vice-versa, etc. So here is some useful stuff and utilities needed for
me which simplify my day to day blogging activities. In this post, I am going to share some of the tools that may simplify blogging.
Windows Live Writer
This tool
is from Microsoft, comes as a rescue for me while writing blog posts. You can
freely download this from this here. This post for my blog, also drafted using this awesome
tool.
Snipping Tool
Built in
tool with windows, used to fetch screen shot of your screen. I always prefer
this tool for this kind of purpose. Not much complicated simplicity makes this
tool more compact and easy to
use.
Cropper
This is a open source
project which can be found at Codeplex site, developed in C#. This is the tool I
expect since the beginning of this blog. The main purpose of this tool is that you can
capture your screen activities as animated GIF files. This kind of stuff is
really useful for me to show the output of my demo program.
HTMLEntities.net
It’s a
website, used to encode/decode your entire HTML code snippets. When you publish
your code snippets inside a blog post (especially when you use Syntax High
Lighter), it should be in an encoded format. At this time, this site comes as a
good choice. Find this site here.
Syntax High
Lighter
Syntax
HighLighter is a JavaScript library, used to display code snippets in a
proper way. I am really thankful to the man Alex, who developed and maintains the
syntax highlighter. You can download it and upload the files in your own place,
otherwise you can just get the URLs from the respective site and include them on
your post.
Code Converter
In
this type, I prefer to use DeveloperFusion’s version, it is also a website. You
can convert the code as your choice like VB.NET to C# or C# to VB.NET, etc. You
can find the site here.
What do you
think?
Readers, the above are all my personal learning
in my blogging journey. The list may grow in future. Have I missed some
essential tool? Let me know your thoughts through comments.
