So, after realizing that Windows Live Writer is written largely in .Net (and has an SDK available for download (.msi)), combined with the fact that I can't sleep, I decided to hack out my first WLW plugin...append a "Currently listening to" block to the end of posts made in WLW (currently it only supports Winamp, but I will extend it to support all major media players in the very near future).  There's really not much to it right now; just drop the assembly into your WLW plugins directory and it will add a menu entry to the Insert menu named "Winamp Now Playing...", click it and whatever you're listening to in Winamp will be appended to your post (this option is also available via the Insert block on the right hand sidebar).  Easy enough.

The WLW API is dirt simple, but is also lacking in a few areas...of course I'm sure it's far from complete, but it's quite elegant in its simplicity.  I'm diggin' it.  You can download my WinampNowPlaying WLW plugin from here (to be considered alpha quality, but it does indeed work...also, it's compiled against .Net 2.0 so if you don't have 2.0 installed, you're SOL).  I plan on enhancing this plugin quite a bit over the coming weeks, but wanted to be the first cool kid on the block to post a WLW plugin ;-).  I'm also starting a new post category for all of my WLW endeavors, which hopefully will be many.

Currently listening to: DJ Bolivia - Hunt The Wumpus - downloaded from www.djbolivia.ca

---

Posted Tue, Aug 15 2006 5:48 AM by Jayson Knight