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I appear to be a bug magnet. Using the product just a few days and bam…

Ok so you will notice on my blog site I have an entry for interesting changes in E12. At the bottom of it I had a web link to the EHLO blog with the info… Only the link didn’t work.

When I was done writing I just pasted the URL from Thunderbird (my RSS Feed Reader) right into livewriter, saw it turn into a hot link, and then I hit publish. This is exactly what I do with the wordpress software so I assumed it would work fine. I should have looked closer as I would have noticed that livewriter truncated the URL and appended “…” after the truncation.

Basically it changed

http://msexchangeteam.com/archive/2006/08/24/428754.aspx

to

http://msexchangeteam.com/archive/2006/08/24/42875…

thereby saving me an amazing two characters.

 

I am not thrilled that it did that, I am less thrilled I can’t seem to turn that capability off, and it is a bug because not only do they truncate the displayed text but ALSO THE LINK! So basically you post a link and livewriter breaks it. Not very nice.

 

This is what the page looked like when livewriter was done with it, this is what it looks like now that I fixed it (http://blog.joeware.net/2006/08/27/567/)

 

This was the link properties…

 

 

 

Something else that is annoying is that if you click on feedback, it hijacks one of your currently open IE sessions and changes the page you are on. I just lost a paused game of ZUMA. On top of that, I tried to log in with my passport and it wanted to link my passport to my XP account and I didn’t want to do that but it didn’t seem I had a choice to leave the feedback so this blog entry is my one and only attempt at leaving this feedback. I am sick of everyone inside of Microsoft inventing their own feedback mechanisms. Everyone there needs to get together and figure out which ONE method they are going to use and then they all use it. This goes for feedback on the betas, on the productions tools, on the web sites, everything… Alternately, use different methods but don’t expect me to go through specific logon processes for each of them, it should be a case of log on if you want, otherwise you don’t have to like MSDN/Platform SDK feedback. In all honesty, I like the MSDN feedback mechanism the best out of all of them. It is the simplest and I see good useful responses.

   joe