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Live Writer – Open Source Insert Tag Snippet Plugin

Coskun SUNALI — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 13:34:40 +0000

I felt like developing my first Live Writer plugin last night then I checked this page to see if someone requests any useful plug-in that I would like to spend my time developer. There were a few ideas about

 tag. I thought that it was a good idea to develop such a plugin to insert any tag snippet at anytime because I also need  and  tags to share code parts on my blog.
I used an XML file as the data store so it might be a good sample of you seeing how to store settings data of your own plugin.
If you need to see how to develop a Live Writer plugin using C#, you can see its code on CodePlex: http://www.codeplex.com/InsertTagSnippet
If you just want to download and install the plugin, you can do that here: http://gallery.live.com/liveItemDetail.aspx?li=[...]



Windows Live Writer
Coskun SUNALI — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 16:01:30 +0000
Martin has told me a lot about Windows Live Writer and I wanted to give it a try. The UI looks perfect, it supports a lot of blog types and most importantly, it doesn’t need you to make a lot of experimental settings.
What I did to set it up was just writing my blog’s URL, username and password. I could not believe that it was all!
You can click the screen shot of the UI above to see the bigger version of it so you can have an idea what it really looks like.
When you look at the screen shot, you will see that it is not just a basic Rich Text Editor replacement of your blog’s admin panel. It download the CSS files that your blog uses and you write your post like you are editing the content directly on the post page.