Testing Silverlight from Windows Live Writer

Posted by Corey on July 14, 2009 at 9:39 pm.

Today SmartyP (did you get that Roger, I didn’t use your name) was letting me know what Grinds his Gears which is: Why do Silverlight bloggers not embed Silverlight applications into their posts. Admittedly, I don’t have a single post that has an embedded Silverlight app.

The root of the my problem is the lack of support for embedding Silverlight into Windows Live Writer (WLW). It’s possible, with Wordpress, to embed Silverlight through the web interface, but WLW’s features outweigh what the web dashboard can do (namely pasting in screen shots without having to save them to the file system and then upload).

After a little digging tonight, I came across this post by Erno de Weerd. It details how to embed Silverlight apps into Windows Live Writer. FWIW, this method uses Tim Heuer’s Silverlight Wordpress Plugin.

Without further ado…drum roll…here’s the test:

Finally, completely unSilverlight related, I always reference Grinds his Gears. It’s such a great line, you can complain without complaining.

6 Responses to “Testing Silverlight from Windows Live Writer”

Corey Says:
July 14th, 2009 at 10:18 pm

Two tweaks:

1.) The WLW plug-in makes the xap file name lower case. This is a problem on hosts that are case sensitive.
2.) Since my blog instance is not in the root, rather it’s in the directory “/blog/”, I had to modify the Wordpress plug-in to have the root directory be “/blog”.