The new metaPost provider for the DNN Forums module allows you to:

• Manage your forums from Windows Live Writer.
• Easily include images and other media with posts.  Images can be added with drag and drop.
• Use metaPost professional edition features such as tabs, the auto image expander and the auto footnote expander (See the home page at itcrossing.com for demos).
• Save time! Offline editing clients like WLW are much faster and more reliable than managing content through web-based editors.

Check out this video or the metaPost product page for more details.

For Module Developers Interested in the metaPost SDK

We've updated our SDK, making it easier than ever for third party module developers to take advantage of the offline editing capabilities metaPost brings to DotNetNuke.  Contact us if you're interested in using the SDK.

I've been finding the metaPost module very handy, and for a bit more than what Don mentions.

For example, for a couple of website clients (non-tech's too!) I've used the DNN blog module as a gallery, quick change of the terms used and with this a non-tech can fairly easily create a gallery page just dropping photos on it - they resize, pop-up nicely, drop-shadows etc all so easily.

The other thing I've used it for is with the text/html module.  A non-tech doesn't even need to log into the website to manage content easily, just use WindowsLiveWriter similar to Word to edit the content, add images and so on.

I'm just someone that finds it a very handy tool.