Windows Live Writer (my first post)

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This is my first post on my MSDN blog using the new Windows Live Writer released today by J.J. Allaire and his team (download the .msi here).

I took me around 2 minutes (including the download and setup) to get it talking to the MSDN blog (using the Metaweb API). Wow.

The code is clean (can view source and can see there are no funny / weird schemas being forced in) - at least that I have seen.

Links to check out:

  • J.J. Allaire introducing Windows Live Writer on the new team blog
  • Liveside has an interview with J.J. Allaire talking about the history of the tool and some of its features
  • Developers can extend the capabilities of Writer to publish additional content types using Windows Live Writer SDK (.msi)
  • Nathan @ Inside Microsoft walks the the setup process for getting Live Writer working on his blog - lots of screenshots including this one (I'm using to test the 'Intert Picture' feature):

 Congrats to the team!!

Comments

  • Anonymous
    August 13, 2006
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  • Anonymous
    August 14, 2006
    Danny, thanks for the comments. I will pass these on to the team.
  • Anonymous
    August 14, 2006
    Danny, we are planning to support APP in our next release. Anyone who wants to work with Blogger is going to have to since they are shutting off their Blogger API endpoint later this year.

    It may take one day to implement but it takes a lot longer to verify it works with all the cranky blog platform implementations out there (although less so for APP if hardly anyone is implementing it yet!).
  • Anonymous
    August 14, 2006
    PingBack from http://blogs.msdn.com/alexbarn/archive/2006/08/14/700096.aspx
  • Anonymous
    August 15, 2006
    Thanks Alex.

    Joe - great news!

    Er...but - "it takes a lot longer to verify it works with all the cranky blog platform implementations out there" - that's the whole point in having a decent spec, so you only have a single validation point.
  • Anonymous
    August 15, 2006
    And as usual, it only takes a few seconds before Danny Ayers pops up and posts yet another trivial variation of his third-rate advocacy stuff. The guy's a complete loser; the Atom community would be a lot better (and a lot more successful) without him.

    I suggest doing what everyone else already does: ignore everything he says, and listen to your users instead.
  • Anonymous
    August 16, 2006
    Anonymous: that was brave.