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1. Picture Upload Not Supported By Blog Issue in Live Writer 2009

   I seem to have stumbled across another bug in Windows Live Writer where you may get an error when posting an entry that contains an image. This error does not always occur. 

   Fortunately, there is a simple workaround. If you see the error, open the Blogs menu and choose Edit blog settings. Proceed through all the steps of wizard clicking Next then click OK to close the settings. You should now be able to post images again.

   I posted this bug to the Windows Live Writer Forum.

   Update : newer versions of AtomSite 1.0+ have a permanent workaround for this bug.

   Posted by JarrettV on January 13 at 4:29 PM

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2. New Windows Live Writer Usage Guide

   Since Live Writer is currently the best way to manage your blog, I created the Live Writer Guide. The guide shows you how to setup your blog, create, edit, and delete posts. It is easy to learn how to perform the basic tasks in Live Writer (except maybe for deleting posts).  However, we will be updating the guide to help with some of the more complex tasks in the future.

    

   On a side note, I created and edited the guide within Live Writer.  I love switching back and forth between Edit and Source views to get things just right.

    

   Please leave a comment if you have any questions.

   Posted by JarrettV on January 13 at 2:05 PM

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3. Category Issue with Windows Live Writer 2009 RC

   There is a problem with categories and AtomPub in the latest Release Candidate of Windows Live Writer. Unfortunately, there is no straight forward way to reproduce the "Null category scheme not supported" error.

   System.ArgumentException: Null category scheme not supported
      at WindowsLive.Writer.BlogClient.Clients.AtomProtocolVersion.Atom10ProtocolVersion.CreateCategoryElement(XmlDocument ownerDoc, String category, String categoryScheme, String categoryLabel)
      at WindowsLive.Writer.BlogClient.Clients.AtomClient.Populate(BlogPost post, Uri documentUri, XmlElement node, Boolean publish)
      at WindowsLive.Writer.BlogClient.Clients.AtomClient.EditPost(String blogId, BlogPost post, INewCategoryContext newCategoryContext, Boolean publish, String& etag, XmlDocument& remotePost)
      at WindowsLive.Writer.BlogClient.Blog.EditPost(BlogPost post, INewCategoryContext newCategoryContext, Boolean publish)
      at WindowsLive.Writer.PostEditor.UpdateWeblogAsyncOperation.DoWork()
      at WindowsLive.Writer.CoreServices.AsyncOperation.InternalStart()
   

   I contacted Joe Cheng about the problem and he replied with:

   Can you try adding scheme="" to your <categories> element? I know that is a little weird.

   If you'd rather not do that, you can create a wlwmanifest.xml file with the following contents:

   <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
   <manifest xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/wlw/manifest/weblog">
    <options>
     <categoryScheme />
    <options>
   </manifest>
   

   I've added this to the wlwmanifest.xml file that is available for each collection.  I believe it has fixed the problem but I won't be sure until I've done more testing.

   I just wanted to get this out there in case others are having the same issue.

   Posted by JarrettV on January 08 at 1:17 PM

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