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Windows Live Writer is a desktop blog-publishing application that is part of the Windows Live range of products. It features WYSIWYG authoring, photo-publishing and map-publishing functionality, and is currently compatible with a range of blogging platforms.

From its Wikipedia page:

Windows Live Writer ... is a desktop blog-publishing application that is part of the Windows Live range of products. It features WYSIWYG authoring, photo-publishing and map-publishing functionality, and is currently compatible with [a wide range of blogging platforms].

External resources

  1. Wikipedia Article
  2. Microsoft Windows Live website
  3. MSDN
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How to connect Live Writer to Orchard CMS

I have followed the instructions found here and here. Also: I am using Orchard Orchard v.1.7.0.0 I am hosting in a Windows Azure Website I have setup Remote Blog Publishing and XmlRpc. I have tried the all three domain names that point to the…
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Allow admins to publish html via Windows Live Writer and/or Word

Currently I have a WYSIWYG editor for admins to post HTML pages on an MVC3 website (with forms authentication.) However I saw this video (~4:45 mins in, if it doesn't take you there,) where a person is able to publish to the MVC3 site by clicking…
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When creating a custom Blog CMS, what should one implement to be able to use it with LiveWriter?

I am currently building my own small scale Blog CMS with ASP MVC C#. I was just curious if anybody out there made such a thing connect with LiveWriter,and could point me in this direction?
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joomla scribfire and windows live integration

i am trying to use live writer of scribfire in my joomla 1.7.3 neither solution detects automatically. i have installed the joomler.net solution. enabled all plugins. api adress i put in is: Enabled SEF …
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Windows Live Writer Automation

I would like to be able to open Windows Live Writer from my (C#) application and have the beginnings of a blog post filled out. This should be very simple. Windows Live Writer defines an Application API that exposes a COM interface called…
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Where can I get wlWriterEditableSmartContent?

I've found a bunch of web sites that use wlWriterEditableSmartContent to show source code in a pretty-print sort of way. Where can I get that class to use on my own web sites?
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Windows Live Writer 2011 embed YouTube video sends a black image to my site instead

I'm developing a blog app, and using windows live writer 2011 to embed a YouTube video is pretty straight forward, but I've encounter a strange issue. Here is what I did, I copy a link from the YouTube site, for example,…
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Paste Special in Live Writer breaks links on Windows 10. Can we workaround it?

We use Windows Live Writer as an interface to standalone WordPress sites behind a firewall. After upgrading to Windows 10, we see a problem using 'Paste Special: Keep Formatting' when copying a table from Microsoft Word or Excel into LW. The HTML…
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Why are there extra and unrelated texts below the code block in wordpress

I insert some bash codes into a blog using windows live write with a code plugin and post it. However, there are a lot of unrelated texts below the code in the blog. Here is: .csharpcode, .csharpcode pre { font-size: small; color:…
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wp_set_object_terms not working when post saved from Windows Live Writer

I have a function attached to a save_post post in the following method function save_post_fn( $post_id ) { wp_set_object_terms($post_id, 'Videos', 'category', true); } add_action('save_post', 'save_post_fn', '1000' ); When I create / update a…
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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…
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How to connect Microsoft Live Writer to write blogs on IBM Connections 4.5?

Using this description from IBM Connections 4.5, I try to get Microsoft Live Writer (from the Windows Essentials 2012 package) to connect to Connections 4.5. My Connections blog does have the BlogClient API setting activated, but I can't seem to get…
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Orchard blog with Live Writer

I'm using Orchard 1.8 and I want to manage a blog with Windows Live Writer 2012. Is there any simple solution to add a field image to the blog post content type and let the user fill it in Writer? My idea is show a widget like [image - title - some…
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About rename upload images in windows live writer

I have visited Hanselman's blog entry and set the upload path to But I do not want to use the path that live writer generated.Is there a way to generate folder and filename with datetime. …
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Error connecting to wordpress blog from Windows Live Writer

I am trying to connect to my wordpress 3.4.1 hosted web blog to Windows Live Writer to make blog posts from WLW instead of web interface provided by wordpress. However i am getting the errors as shown in screenshot: Also attached is xmlrpc.php…
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