Microsoft has released an updated version of their blog authoring tool Windows Live Writer.
Updated features:
- Tagging support
- Support for Blogger Beta
- Categories are sorted by name and support scrolling, plus improved support for reading categories from your blog
- Improved startup performance
- Paste is enabled for Title region and TAB/SHIFT+TAB navigation between title and body supported
- Insert hyperlink added to context menu when text is selected
- Title attribute in Insert Link dialog
- Custom date support for Community Server
- Improved keyboard shortcuts for switching views
- Change spell-check shortcut key to F7
- Add ‘png’ to insert image dialog file type filter
- More robust image posting to Live Spaces
- Improved style detection for blogs
- Fixed issues with pasting URLs and links
- Remember last window size and position when opening a new post
- Open post dialog retrieves more than 25 old posts
Plugins & Extensions:
- Acronyms Plugin
- "Blog This" Extensions for Internet Explorer & Firefox
- Event Plugin
- Flickr 4 Writer
- Ink (TabletPC) Blog Plugin
- Insert Live Spaces Emoticons
Windows Live Writer SDK installs the following directories and files:“Docs” Folder which contains SDK Documentation in Microsoft Compressed HTML Help (*.chm) format.“Examples” Folder which contains sample source code for a “Hello World” plug-in and a companion README text file.APIs: Two sets are provided:Application API – For launching Writer from other applications to "Blog This" for Links, Snippets, Images, or Feed Items.Content Source Plugins – For extending the capabilities of Writer to insert, edit, and publish new types of content, for example:
- Images from online photo publishing sites
- Embedded video or audio players
- Product thumbnails and/or links from e-commerce sites
- Tags from tagging services
Additional Resources:
The Road to Know Where 