Corey Schuman » windows live writer http://www.85turns.com Silverlight Consultant Tue, 26 Apr 2011 20:57:07 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.1 Testing Silverlight from Windows Live Writer http://www.85turns.com/2009/07/14/testing-silverlight-in-windows-live-writer/ http://www.85turns.com/2009/07/14/testing-silverlight-in-windows-live-writer/#comments Wed, 15 Jul 2009 02:39:53 +0000 Corey http://www.85turns.com/2009/07/14/testing-silverlight-in-windows-live-writer/ 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:

Install Microsoft Silverlight

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

]]> http://www.85turns.com/2009/07/14/testing-silverlight-in-windows-live-writer/feed/ 6