• Utilize all of the popular features of Windows Live Writer
• metaPost allows you to publish to your site directly from your desktop
• Adding pictures can take forever using a web-based editor. You have to save each image to your hard drive. Optionally, resize the image. Upload the image. Include the uploaded image in the content and set the size. With WLW, it's just drag and drop or copy and paste.
• Ability to add image galleries and video to your blog posts
• Inline spellcheck as you type
• Integrates with poular DotNetNuke and third party modules
• Allows techies to integrate formatted code examples to their posts
• This module allows you to integrate Windows Live Writer with the DNN Blog module, Ventrian News Articles, DNN Text/HTML module, Faqs module, ZLDNN DNNArticle, Magic Content, DNN Announcements, DNN Help,  and the DNN forums module.
• A free trial version is available that integrates with the DNN Blog module

• Access to full range of Windows Live Writer features for all providers written on top of the metaPost infrastructure.
•  Copy and paste images into your blog entries!
• Works across multiple parent portals, just point Windows Live Writer (WLW) to http://www.portaldomain.com/metaPost.ashx.
• Utilizes the amazing set of features available for publishing with Windows Live Writer
• Inline spellcheck as you type
• Integrates with poular DotNetNuke and third party modules

Buck's Summary:

I have to admit that when Don Worthley, developer of metaPost, first brought the product to my attention, I did not pay much attention to it.

At the time, it was promoted as a bridge between Microsoft Word and DotNetNuke.

I did not have much use for all of the superfluous meta tag code that Word renders to the HTML code and, looking back, I wrongly ignored this product.

But, with the integration of Windows Live Writer it drew my attention.

Kelly Ford, developer of Xmod, Tony Harrison from the FatGeorge Company, and I were discussing a way to integrate code examples into our blogs.

Tony had suggested that we look at Windows Live Writer.

That day we discovered a solution using Windows Live Writer directly and began posting to our blogs.

I began to think why stop at the blogs module, I use the Ventrian NewsArticles module in all of my sites and I wanted to also have this publishing ability for the Ventrian module as well.

Tony then suggested that I look at metaPost. I sson discovered that it not only had the ability to integrate with Scott mcCulloch's Ventrian module but also had the ability to make direct desktop publishing available for other popular modules as well.

I then contacted Don and asked him to send me metaPost for testing.

I was impressed at the ease of installation and the documentation that he provided.

The next day, Kelly Ford then Skyped me and said, "Buck, you gotta see this. I found a method to integrate Syntaxhighlighter and the PreCode Snippet plugin for Windows Live Writer into my blog module!"

I decided to configure metaPost on my blog and here is an example of the result of the integration.

Next, I configured metaPost for the Ventrian module and soon discovered that all integration points for the NewsArticle module were available to me through the metaPost proider for the module.

How to Setup Windows Live Writer and metaPost for Use with Ventrian News Articles Module

I am looking forward to implementing the additional metaPost providers and I am finding this product a time-saving and useful tool for my production work.

Buck