windows-live-writer

Weblog from Live Writer with Live ID authentication

I'm currently developing a weblog engine. I use Live Id for authentication when logging in online. I'm building support for Live Writer thru the MetaWeblogAPI. Is it possible to check Live ID authentication from within Live Writer? Does anyone know if this it is possible to do this myself? or do I have to create an alternative authenti...

Why isn't Windows Live Writer working with my MetaWebLog API provider?

I'm developing a Web site that, amongst other things, provides blogging via Metaweblog API. I've gotten the API working quite well with several blog clients, but Windows Live Writer is killing me. I've done a network trace to capture the actual back-and-forth traffic. Here's the results: WLW asks for my blog URL, user name, and passwo...

Loading a Type Library via PowerShell and scripting Windows Live Writer

I'm very new to COM and Windows programming/scripting in general. What I was trying to do is scripting Windows Live Writer; according to the documentation before I can call $o = New-Object -c WindowsLiveWriter.Application I need to load the TLB first, so I should call the add-type command, unfortunately it fails: PS C:\Users\NoWher...

Windows Live Writer plugin with .NET 4

Has anyone written a plugin for Windows Live Writer that runs against .NET 4? I've read the .NET 4 introduces side-by-side running, so one part of the app can target .NET x and another part can target .NET 4. I thought WLW would be a good starting point to try this as previously it only supported plugins up to .NET 2. But my .NET 4 pl...

Windows Live Writer: Additional information via XMLRPC or post metadata

Is there any way to specify additional information about a post/category/tag over XMLRPC? Or is there any way other way to provide/receive metadata about a post? ...

Windows Live Writer Webpreview and Weblayout

I'm working on implementing a blogging engine and want to make it compatible with windows live writer. I found an excellent post on this, but what I can't find is documentation on the placeholder tags used in the weblayout and webpreview templates. The only page I can find referring to this files on MSDN is this one that doesn't mention ...