Writer

We’re excited to announce that Windows Live Writer Beta is available for download today.    Windows Live Writer Beta (14.0.5025.904) Here’s what you can expect to find in this beta: Image and video publishing enhancements Insert videos from Soapbox and YouTube Upload videos to Soapbox and YouTube Image cropping and tilting Additional border styles for images (such as reflection and rounded c....

For those of you who downloaded the Technical Preview and have used Writer in the last couple of days, you may have seen a notification to upgrade to the new version only to be directed to http://get.live.com/writer to find that there is nothing new to install. On Monday (September 1, 2008) the Technical Preview of Writer started erroneously triggering expiration for October 1, 2008.  We have fix....

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....