New Windows Live Writer Beta available
December 15, 2008 – 12:47 pm | One Comment

Within the Windows Live Essentials the Windows Live Writer was release as the build 14.0.8050.12012 with a pretty new logo.

But didn’t get only a little restyling, it gets some new features too.
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The tag field has …

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Overwrite images problem
March 13, 2009 – 7:21 am | No Comment

Geoffrey had the problem that every time he uploaded an image by posting a post the image overwrite the previous uploaded one. He asked the Windows Live Writer Developer team and they provided him with a workaround to fix the problem temporary.

Open HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows Live\Writer\Weblogs\{blog-id}\UserOptionOverrides\, where {blog-id} is a GUID. You will have several of these, but should be able to tell the right one by looking at the contents of the key.

Add a new String value with name “fileUploadNameFormat” (case matters!!) and the value e
{WindowsLiveWriter}/{PostTitle}/{Randomizer}/{AsciiFileName}

source: Windows Live Writer Image Posting Error

Windows Live Writer Backup RC released
March 7, 2009 – 6:42 am | No Comment
Windows Live Writer Backup RC released

One of the most important and useful addons for the Windows Live Writer was released in a new version by Scott Lovegrove, WLWBackup. With one click you backup all your Windows Live Writer posts and …

Heavy bug found in the Windows Live Writer
January 28, 2009 – 9:23 am | One Comment

There is the possibility that the XML files that store a list of the tags can get corrupted and the Windows Live Writer isn’t starting anymore.
Joe Cheng form the developer team of the Windows Live …

Incompatible: InsertVideo Plugin and Live Writer Wave 3
October 3, 2008 – 9:34 am | No Comment
Incompatible: InsertVideo Plugin and Live Writer Wave 3

Scott has confirmed on his blog that the InsertVideo plugin doesn’t work hand in hand with Live Writer Wave 3. According to his statement, the Live Writer team had changed something in the API the …

Windows Live Writer wish list
August 26, 2008 – 5:56 pm | One Comment

The Windows Live Writer Team did a great job and provided us a great blogging tool, the Windows Live Writer. I thought it would be a good idea to start a wish list about function …

Server Error – 32700 Occured part 2
August 23, 2008 – 12:05 pm | No Comment
Server Error – 32700 Occured part 2

We supposed till now that the error message “Server error -32700 occurred" shows that the Windows Live Writer tried to publish on a corrupted Wordpress installation.
But there is another less dangerous possibility, a wrong character …

Link to a previous post
August 13, 2008 – 2:04 pm | One Comment
Link to a previous post

Your probably open your blog with your browser, search for the post and copy the URL when you want to link to a previous post you . It doesn’t take much time doing it but …

Windows Live Writer Wordpress and the XMLRPC Issue
August 2, 2008 – 4:21 pm | 5 Comments
Windows Live Writer Wordpress and the XMLRPC Issue

Sometimes when you try to set up a new blog account with the Windows Live Writer the installation process might be interrupted by an error message:

Invalid Server Response – The response to the blogger.getUsersBlogs method …

How to write a Windows Live Plugin: Charles Teague interview
July 1, 2008 – 11:39 am | No Comment

“Scott Lovegrove is the outside/community the god of writer plugins; the inside god is Charles Teague”

by Angus Logan 7/1/2008
In this video Charles explain his position at Microsoft and how to write a hello World …

Wordpress 2.6 doesn’t support Live Writer out of the box
June 23, 2008 – 9:52 am | One Comment

The Wordpress developer team tries to secure Wordpress. Hence, they deactivated the XML-RPC and the Atom API.
Without these APIs it is not possible to post to your blog using a desktop blogging software like WIndows …

Live Writer on Eee PC
June 5, 2008 – 12:53 pm | One Comment
Live Writer on Eee PC

How to run Windows Live Writer on an Asus Eee PC?
flickr user Irregular Shed shows us how:

This is Windows Live Writer running on Windows XP, running virtually on Ubuntu 8.04 running virtually on Asus Eee …