
Windows Live Spaces, WordPress, and TypePad had all taken advantage of this API to expose additional service-specific features within Windows Live Writer. Windows Live Writer introduced the Provider Customization API that enables both rich customization of Windows Live Writer's behavior as well as the opportunity to add new functionality to the product. The software featured WYSIWYG authoring, photo-publishing and map-publishing functionality, and was compatible with Windows Live Spaces, SharePoint blogs, Blogger, LiveJournal, TypePad, WordPress, Telligent Community,, JournalHome, the MetaWeblog API, the Movable Type API, Blogengine, Squarespace, and all blogs that supported Really Simple Discovery. Īn open-source fork of Windows Live Writer was released as Open Live Writer on December 9, 2015. The last major release of Windows Live Writer came out in 2012 ( end-of-life), and the software was completely discontinued in January 2017. Windows Live Writer is a discontinued desktop blog-publishing application that was developed by Microsoft and distributed as part of the Windows Live suite of apps. It is one of the best code editors which runs only in Windows environment, and it uses a GPL at the Wayback Machine (archive index) It uses pure win32 API which provides more execution speed and smaller program size.

1) Notepad++ Notepad++ is a popular free-to-use code editor written in C ++. Although pre-.NET Visual Basic is no longer supported or updated by Microsoft, the VBA programming language was upgraded with the introduction of Visual Basic for Applications 7 in Microsoft Office applications in 2010. Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) is an implementation of Microsoft’s event-driven programming language Visual Basic 6, which was declared legacy in 2008, and is an associated integrated development environment (IDE).
