Tuesday, August 29, 2006

Windows Live Writer integration

Last night I was chatting online with a colleague of mine, JD, and he pointed me in the direction of this blog post from Mikael Runhem (may need to scroll down the page to find the post I'm referring to). It was quite weird timing actually as we were discussing the possibility of creating this ourselves. Looks like we got beaten to it!

The cool thing about this post is that it has apparently been posted directly from Windows Live Writer (WLW), directly to the EPiServer blog template. Michael writes:

Not to my surprise, Ruwen has made an excellent job, creating a " blog server emulator" that makes EPiServer pretend it is a Metablog compliant blog server! With this approach we can not only support the new upcoming blog program from Microsoft, Microsoft Live Writer, but also other Metablog compliant blog programs. This opens up for people using Macs, Linux, cell phones etc to create content in EPiServer!

If anyone is interested in WLW, I have been working on a plug-in that integrates the online file storage site Box.net. I have the plug-in ready for initial beta testing and am trying to get a project space on CodePlex to store it. If your interested in this plug-in then read more about it here.

2 comments:

Unknown said...

Hi

Im interested in trying this out but I can't seem to find this blog server emulator, is it available?

Jeremy said...

You will need to get the emulator off one of the Research guys, Mikael Runhem (m@episerver.com) or Ruwen Jin (rj@ep.se).

I'm not sure if they have publically released the emulator yet but they are ususally willing to give out their test stuff for review.