Windows Live Writer beta 2

Just noticed that WLW beta 2 is out, and I'm trying it out right now..

As far as I understand, it should support Blogger labels, and that has been one of the IMO biggest limitations with the previous beta.

Hopefully this works out properly, and this will be the blogging application of choice when I'll be blogging random stuff from TechEd. Yay!

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Add blogger Labels to Windows Live Writer

It seems that the "Insert Tags..." thing in Windows Live Writer is customizable enough that it is possible to add support for blogger labels by doing the following:

• Insert tags ... -> Choose (Customize Providers...) in dropdown list
• Add...
• Set provider name appropriately so that you know it e.g. blogger
• Set template to:

  <a href="http://obviously-your-blog-name.blogspot.com/search/label/{tag-encoded}"
  rel="tag">{tag}</a>

  
  
• Set tag separator to ", " (without the quotes)
  
• Set htm caption to "<span class="post-labels">Labels: {tag-group}</span>" (without the quotes)

If you do that, and add tags using that provider, the tags should work exactly as when blogging via web-ui.

EDIT: it seems that the labels do not show up on the edit posts page in the web ui. I wonder if that matters?

EDIT2: it looks correct but does not work... (

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Windows Live Writer - I18N not complete

After performing the usual* test when getting a System.FormatException it seems that the I18n has not yet been done properly in Windows Live Writer. Basically (it seems like) the code assumes . (dot) as a decimal separator somewhere, but gets a , (comma) since the Swedish (Finland) locale (sv-FI) uses comma as decimal separator.

Workaround: Change the decimal separator to a dot.

Usual test: Change the regional settings to use English (United States)

 

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Hello World from Windows Live Writer

After installing the latest version of Windows Live Writer and applying the workaround for beta.blogger I'm now successfully posting from Windows Live Writer running on Vista x64 (5728)

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Update: Did not work on first try...

 

System.FormatException: Input string was not in a correct format.
   at System.Number.StringToNumber(String str, NumberStyles options, NumberBuffer& number, NumberFormatInfo info, Boolean parseDecimal)
   at System.Number.ParseDouble(String value, NumberStyles options, NumberFormatInfo numfmt)
   at System.Double.Parse(String s, NumberStyles style, NumberFormatInfo info)
   at WindowsLive.Writer.BlogClient.Clients.AtomClient.ParseRfc3339(String dateTimeString)
   at WindowsLive.Writer.BlogClient.Clients.AtomClient.Date(XmlNode node, String xpath, DateTime defaultValue)
   at WindowsLive.Writer.BlogClient.Clients.AtomClient.Parse(XmlElement entryNode)
   at WindowsLive.Writer.BlogClient.Clients.AtomClient.NewPost(String blogId, BlogPost post, Boolean publish)
   at WindowsLive.Writer.BlogClient.Blog.NewPost(BlogPost post, Boolean publish)
   at WindowsLive.Writer.PostEditor.UpdateWeblogAsyncOperation.DoWork()