Members of the Writer team will be at BlogHer ‘08 in San Francisco this Friday through Sunday.  In addition to roaming around the sessions, we’ll be presenting and leading round-table discussion about Writer at the Microsoft-hosted breakfast series on Saturday from 8:15 – 9:15 AM.  We’re told that in addition to breakfast (of course) attendees will receive SWAG bags that include a bunch of fun s....

Catherine Heller (Channel 9) interviews Charles Teague (our Dev Lead) on Windows Live Writer. Charles discusses the Windows Live Writer SDK which includes a managed API for extending Live Writer. He demonstrates the Polaroid Picture Plug-in and also shows how to build a "Hello World" plug-in in Visual Studio. Charles Teague: Building Windows Live Writer Plug-ins....

You can now install the latest technical preview of Windows Live Writer.  Here's what you’ll find in this release: SDK Updates This release is largely about updates to the Writer SDK, which now includes hooks for pre- and post-publish events. PLEASE NOTE: These updates are experimental and the APIs are not final--we may make changes based on your feedback that break plug-ins that use these new m....

The Picasa Data API newsgroup has reported they have fixed the issue that was causing posts that contain images to not publish on Blogger (thanks Jeff Fisher for the quick response!).  We have verified that the fix does addresses the issue Writer was having publishing to Blogger. If you continue to have problems with Writer please post on our newsgroup. Thanks to everyone for their patience and so....

Today, the Writer team learned of changes to Blogger that cause Writer to fail when publishing posts that contain images.  When attempting to publish a post that contains images, Writer will show the following message:   We're currently investigating a fix for this issue and will post an update as soon as we have more information. Thanks to everyone who reported this issue.....