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I try not to "meta-blog", but I recently discovered some neat tools that have really helped me out a lot.

The CopySourceAsHTML plugin for Visual Studio is pretty amazing.  This is certainly useful outside of blogging (e.g. writing documentation, etc) but really shines when wanting to post a code snippet to your blog.  It copies your source code exactly as it appears on the screen in Visual Studio.  Slick.  This free plugin has been updated for Visual Studio 2008 from its original (Visual Studio 2005) version.  Thanks to Colin Coller and J.T. Leigh & Associates for this awesome piece of code.

I’ve also started using Windows Live Writer now that it has full support for the WordPress 2.5+ XMLRPC functionality.  While the WordPress editor is pretty slick, it sometimes suffers from being clunky simply because it’s a web interface.  Having a program on my local machine that lets me copy/paste things (code, images, etc) easily, save drafts, and publish when I’m ready is really helpful.

Hope that helps!

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