DZone PlugIn for Windows Live Writer

    Thursday, June 05 2008 - All

    I had a good response to my DotNetKicks plugin for Windows Live Writer. One of the requests that came along was to write a Live Writer plugin for DZone, too. DZone is another one of the aggregating sites … they state on their site “fresh links for developers”.

    Anyway … I created the plugin today and will post it on codeplex when I get a chance. For now though, you can grab it from these links, below:

    DZone plugin source code

    DZone plugin dll.

    If you just want to use this plugin, simply download the dll and drop it in your Live Writer plugin folder.I only added a single option: the style of the link. The style can either be tall or wide.

    This is Tall dzone_tall  and this is Wide dzone_wide

    Here is the options page. Yes, very simple :)

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    Again … a short disclaimer here … you need the June 2008 Technical Preview of Windows Live Writer and the SDK for this code to work. Also, this is a technical preview and the team’s blog states that at this time you cannot upload plugins made with it to the Windows Live Gallery. The downloads come with some sample applications, a new features quick start and a help file.

    If you have any feature requests, let me know. Feel free to grab this plug in and blog away! Enjoy!

    Oh, and don’t forget to click the links below for me :-)

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    #1 DZone PlugIn for Windows Live Writer on 6.05.2008 at 5:42 PM

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    #5 Derek Lakin on 6.09.2008 at 11:32 AM

    Hi John,

    Thanks for the plugin; I use this one and your previous one for DotNetKicks and find it so much easier to use. I like the way it goes into a post footer nwot hat the WLW SDK has changed, too.

    However, do you know if there's any way to format the contents of the post footer? With two different plugins adding content to the footer I end up with one below the other and I'd prefer to have them side-by-side, which I have to do manually after I've published at the moment.

    Thanks,

    Derek.



    #6 ScottIsAFool on 6.10.2008 at 11:07 AM

    To answer Derek's question: no, you can't have the different plugins' content line up next to each other. Each plugins' code goes in its own <div> element and so they end up one on top of the other. It's a good idea though and I would recommend leaving some feedback on it in the Writer Beta forums: forums.community.microsoft.com/.../threads

    SL



    #7 John Papa on 6.10.2008 at 11:24 AM

    Derek & Scott,

    Right, you can't put 2 on the same line unless they are both in the same plugin. The footer that is created by a plugin is wrapped inside of a DIV. So each plugin gets its own DIV for the footer, thus they each get their own line.

    Submitting a feature request is the best way to go. Barring that, the next best step is to create a single plugin that allows the user to choose which links they want in the footer. You could have a DIgg, Rediit, DNK, and DZone tag, for example, all in the same plugin.

    JP



    #8 Colin Jack on 6.13.2008 at 5:31 PM

    Slightly unrelated question, I notice in google reader your blog entries have links like "Save to del.icio.us" at the bottom of them and I was wondering how you get them in?



    #9 John Papa on 6.13.2008 at 10:51 PM

    Colin ... FeedBurner allows you to customize the RSS feed. I chose to have it add these items.



    #10 Colin Jack on 6.14.2008 at 11:20 AM

    Ta, I'm a total idiot for not thinking of looking at my feed! :)



    #11 DZone Plugin for Windows Live Writer on CodePlex on 8.06.2008 at 5:29 PM

    Earlier today I posted the DotNetKicks plugin for Windows Live Writer up on CodePlex including all of its source. Just now I created a CodePlex project for the DZone PlugIn for Windows Live Writer , too. I uploaded all of the source code and the latest



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