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One of the nice things about Windows Live Writer is that lets you edit your blog in the same style your readers will actually see.  However, often times, Windows Live Writer cannot detect a blog theme or it incorrectly detects a user’s theme. ...

Last weekend I took a safety class to get my motorcycle license.  At the end of the class you must take a multiple choice test and a riding test.  The class instructors held back the bar of success in both tests even when asked by other students...

During the very late stages of development for the last version of Windows Live Writer we found a bug on our 'Insert from Web Image' dialog.  Specifically there was a bug that prevented users from inserting images that that were part of libraries...

Sometimes, you can be just in the groove when typing your blog entry, and the last thing you want to do is disrupt your flow by having to use your mouse to do something. Fortunately, Writer has a lot of keyboard shortcuts that make this really easy to...

Users can enable verbose logging in Windows Live Writer which will cause the application to log some extra things that it would normally not.  This is often an important step for debugging problems with blog services because it will log all the traffic...

So you’ve found a great video on YouTube (or SoapBox ) and you want to share that video with your readers. We all know about the option that’s there in Live Writer under the insert section on the right hand side, which will give you the familiar screen...

Like a lot of programs, there are always some things that Live Writer doesn’t do that you’d like it to do. However, Live Writer has it’s own way of allowing other developers to create those missing features and bits of functionality, and create plug-ins...

Sometimes you can be on a webpage and think, this is great, I’d like to blog about this. Well, if you’re using Internet Explorer then when Windows Live Writer is installed, a new button appears on the toolbar . Clicking this button will load up Live Writer...

Recently, I reflected on all the cross team components we depend on for Windows Live Writer.  Then I thought about the ones that have worked out well for us.  I didn't think about platforms Microsoft makes like .NET, GDI, DirectX, etc… Instead...

Today starts a mini series within the Windows Live Writer Tip series where the tips are written by Scott Lovegrove .  Scott is a Windows Live MVP as well as the creator of many plugins you can find on his blog. As a blogger, you will sometimes find...

Its pretty common that bloggers want to link back to an old post. Instead of going to the browser and finding the link to the post, you can find it from inside of Windows Live Writer. Click “Hyperlink…” from the sidebar to bring up the modal dialog. Then...

From inside of Windows Live Writer you can easily add a copyright or registered symbol using typographic replacement.  To insert a © type a (c) and then press space . To insert a ® type a (r) and then press space . If you actually want to type those...

One of the most requested features of Windows Live Writer is ‘find and replace’.  This is the ability to quickly change one string to another string in a document.  Its found in the most complex programs like Visual Studio and Microsoft Word...

Many users have found the word count feature until the “Tools” menu.  It is possible to turn on word count so it will continue to update in the status bar, just as it would in Microsoft Word: This feature can be turned on though: Tools > Options...

It is possible the categories on your blog can get out of sync with your blog.  This will most likely happen if you use a different blogging client then Windows Live Writer, WLW on a different computer, or post through the admin control panel. ...

Michigan State, my alma mater, beat University of Connecticut to advance to the NCAA championship game earlier today.  GO GREEN! Anyways, I was checking today's news on the Huffington Post and saw a new article which referenced the victory. ...

Windows Live Writer has an automatic save feature.  This is different then “Auto-Recover” which is what you find in Microsoft Word.  In Windows Live Writer, there is a timer that triggers every X number of minutes.  When the time triggers...

In the past month there have been 3 reports from users that Windows Live Writer will not start up.  After looking in the Windows Live Writer log file , the following exception was seen: An unexpected error has occurred within the application. System...

In grade school, classroom seating charts always felt so restrictive.  It always bothered me that we had to sit everywhere the teacher told us to.  Looking back there was probably a good reason for this.  Most importantly it keep the classroom...

I like to find out what people are saying about Windows Live Writer , I guess it is a guilty pleasure of mine.  I follow blog searches , forums , Get Satisfaction , and Twitter .  Recently, Robert Scoble posted about Windows Live Writer , and...

Earlier today I grabbed some of the Apple Usage App Store data from Charles Teague . I wanted to see if there was an correlation between popularity and the price of any application.  Popularity is a magic number calculated by Apple and it ranges...

We have released an updated extension for Firefox that lets you launch Windows Live Writer from the browser. We are still in the ‘experimental’ category which means you will have to log into addons.mozilla.org to download the add-on until we get more...

With our last beta release of Windows Live Writer we included a new feature to upload videos directly to YouTube from WLW. This should improve the workflow for many bloggers that create videos and publish them to their blog using YouTube as the distribution...

By the end of reading this post you will either think: Wow, Microsoft really wants a great experience for their users. or Wow, Microsoft just can’t make anything as simple as it really is. I really hope that you think the former, but it appears that some...

I have seen this come up a lot in in my lifetime, long before I got into computers and software development. Often times someone will present a problem, and other people will comment or explain the reasons for the problem instead of trying to find a solution...