Windows Live Writer 1.0 (Beta) Update with Windows Live Gallery

Windows Live Writer is a desktop application that makes it easier to compose compelling blog posts using Windows Live Spaces or your current blog service. 

 

The following is a summary of the changes in the Writer 1.0 (Beta) Update:

• Tagging support
• Support for Blogger Beta
• Categories are sorted by name and support scrolling, plus improved support for reading categories from your blog
• Improved startup performance
• Paste is enabled for Title region and TAB/SHIFT+TAB navigation between title and body supported
• Insert hyperlink added to context menu when text is selected
• Title attribute in Insert Link dialog
• Custom date support for Community Server
• Improved keyboard shortcuts for switching views
• Change spell-check shortcut key to F7
• Add ‘png’ to insert image dialog file type filter
• More robust image posting to Live Spaces
• Improved style detection for blogs 
• Fixed issues with pasting URLs and links
• Remember last window size and position when opening a new post
• Open post dialog retrieves more than 25 old posts

Download Windows Live Writer 1.0 (Beta) Update

 

 

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visionapp Remote Desktop (vRD 1.4)

vRD is a tool which allows the management of RDP connections to servers. vRD is ideal for administrators who need to maintain simultaneous connections to multiple servers. Connection-specific settings and login credentials can be organized in folders and subfolders for quick access.

The new version 1.4 further extends the ease of use. Coming, amongst others, with a dynamic overview tab page over all established connections, the ability to choose the session window size through a drop down field and providing the option to set the RDP port, vRD offers many new features for hassle-free handling of multiple RDP connections.

 

Download visionapp Remote Desktop 1.4

Memory Management

Automatic memory management is one of the services during Managed Execution that makes a developer's life a bit easier. Developers do not have to worry about freeing objects when they are no longer used, since the garbage collector takes care of that. The garbage collector determines which objects have no references and can therefore be released from memory. This prevents many problems such as forgetting to free objects from memory, causing memory leaks or attempting to access memory that has already been released.
The problem with automatic memory management
The automatic memory management technique is not perfect. As explained above, an object can be collected by the garbage collector when the object has no more references. It's logical that a button will not be collected when a form still knows it's there, but there are other references that a programmer might not expect, that also keep an object alive.
An eventhandler can be such a reference that it will prevent the object from being collected. Another example is using a static collection object to register certain object instances. These instances will never be collected since the collection always has a reference to them. An IMessageFilter to handle window messages also has the same collection problem.
The solution
To prevent this kind of problems, qios has created a system that uses WeakReferences to attach to events, collection members, and IMessageFilters. A WeakReference is a reference to an object that will allow it to be garbage collected.

To read more about our solution to these problems, check out a free and open source sample and libary available for download.You are allowed to use the MemoryPack library in your own applications without any costs.