Last week the Windows Live Writer Team released the new Windows Live Writer CTP. The most important improvement, the new SDK 1.1. The new SDK gives the developer the instrument to create a new sort of plug-in. I’m calling them self-running plug-in because they run in the background. After you have set them up, everything works automatically and for every blog separately.

Even if the Windows Live Writer was release only a few days ago, the Windows Live Writer developers already create several plug-in to demonstrate the new SDK. The CTP is not an official version (no update through the Windows Updates) and this is why the plug-ins will not be available in the Windows Live Writer Gallery. The developers published their plugins on their blogs. Let’s do a tour together to see the all plug-ins available till now.

Scott Lovegrove was probably the most diligent. He created 6 simply plugins which demonstrate the different base classes of the new SDK.

Emotify Plug-in

Scott took his first plug-in and added an automatic to emotify your post. After you have pressed the “publish” button the plug-in will transform all text smiles into the Windows Live smiles.

This plug-in uses the PublishNotificationHook base class

Now Playing

This plug-in adds to the end of every post the title and the artist of the song you listen to while you wrote the post.

Windows Media Player: You have to install the Media Player blogging plug-in for Windows Media Player

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This plug-in uses the HeaderFooterSource base class

Capitalize Title

The capitalize Title, capitalize the title of you post from “This is my new title” to “This Is My New Title”

Signature Plug-in

This plug-In adds a signature (you can use HTML as well) to every post.

Bold Hyperlink Plug-in

This plug-in changes every hyperlink to bold.

Profanity Checker

The profanity checker checks your blog post for forbidden words. If the plug-in finds a word from the black list, the post won’t be published. There is a password protection, too. If you child want to switch the plug-in off it can’t do it without the plug-in.

This plug-in use the PublishNotificationHook base class

All plugins (download and source code) are available on codeplex as usual.

Codeplex: http://www.codeplex.com/NewLiveWriterPlugins

Download: All Plugins

Installation: c:\program files\windows live\writer\plugins

Sample plug-ins from the Windows Live Writer SDK 1.1

Twitter

This plug-in inform all you the people who follow you on twitter that there is a new post.

DiggThis

This plug-in adds a diggthis badge to every post. The position is selectable through the plug-in options.

Download: Windows Live Writer SDK 1.1

Download: DiggThis & Twitter Plug-in

Copy the *.Dll to C:\Program Files\Windows Live\Writer\Plugins\

Creative Commons footer Plug-in by Tim Heuer

Creative Commons footer plug-in

This plug-in by Tim Heuer adds a Creative Common Link to every blog post

Download: Creative Commons Attribution Plug-in

DotNetKicks Plug-in by John Papa

DotNetKicks Plugin

The plug-in by John Papa is very similar to the DiggThis badge plug-in. Instead of using DiggThis it uses ne .Net clone DotNetKicks.

You can change the appearance by the plug-in options

Download and Open Source: http://www.codeplex.com/wlwplugin4dnk

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