What’s new in the LSSaver next release?

LSSaver is initially created to satisfy my personal needs, it is basically tested with several LiveSpace blogs and it works quite well on these small to medium-sized blogs. However, when it comes to a blog with lots of posts and the posts contain lot of pictures, flash or other special tag such as iframe, the performance is seriously degraded. One has to wait for very very long for LSSaver to load all the blogs and sometimes, LSSaver will never be able to load all blogs because there is not enough memory.

In the next release, these problems will be addressed. You will be able to select a starting month and a ending month and load only the blog posts between these two values. This will give you the flexibility to save your blog part by part, which is more efficient and you will have less chance to run out of memory.

Features planned in the next release of LSSaver.

In the next release of LSSaver, I will add some new features:

One important thing is to support older .NET platforms, for example, .NET 2.0, 3.0 and 3.5. This will let more people be able to use the LSSaver.

Another feature is a more friendly GUI. Currently, for example, when getting the blog index, there is no indication of when the operation ends, same for the Save button. So in the next release, I will add progress bar or dialog indicating when an operation ends.

There is another planned enhancement on the blog preview, that is, currently the display refreshes regularly when getting the blogs. This makes preview during the get very difficult. I will try to let fix the display even the content in the preview is updated, letting the users be able to stay at a certain place.

So with the next version, LSSaver will be able to serve more people in a more friendly way.