Adding a C# REPL Script to Windows Live Writer

Let’s give Windows Live Writer 'Copy and Paste of images' feature a test-drive by documenting how to inject a C# REPL script into it

Signs of a well Designed Feature

A well Designed Feature (i.e. that works) is one that, for a particular task (like coping and pasting images on this blog) gives its user the feeling that:

• initially the new workflow just seems simpler and a little bit faster (when compared with the preview one)
• after a while, how it worked before goes kinda misty
• but, if the previous one has to be used again, it will seem REAAALLLLY slow and cumbersome!

Of course that in reality, the change is never that big, but once the user feels/understands the new version, using the old one is just painful.

Why does trying some Windows Live Writer Plug-ins expose me the total system compromise

As you can see on the Trying a couple more Windows Live Code Formatters post, I tried a number of Live Writer Plug-ins before I found one that I liked.
But if you notice (just to try a couple plug-ins!) I had to install a bunch of MSIs and give them full access to my box! And after installing those plug-ins run with Full Trust (again being able to do whatever they want to any of my windows processes)
This is crazy, this is faith-based security.

Trying a couple more Windows Live Code Formatters

As you can see at the end of the  Failing to use Windows Live Writer 2011 (and going back to 2009) the highest ranking (and recommended by default) code formatting plug-in didn’t work. So let’s try  a couple more:

Failing to use Windows Live Writer 2011 (and going back to 2009)

As you can see at the end of Using Window Live Writer to write Blogger posts I originally started using the 2009 version, so I tried use the 2011 and it failed miserably because, Copy and Paste doesn’t work anymore!!!! This is crazy!! Why???

Using Window Live Writer to write Blogger posts

As per this @shanselman reply https://twitter.com/shanselman/status/277514388376784896 (following a question I asked @troyhunt) I’m giving Windows Live Writer 2009 a try, and it seems to support Blogger, and (more importantly  copy and past of images (with auto upload to Picassa) which is exactly what I wanted (see The 'Sync Design Problem' of adding images to this blog for a description of the problem I had)