Erno de Weerd has released a plug-in for Windows Live Writer that simplifies inserting a Silverlight application into your WordPress blog post. It’s works in conjunction with Tim Heuer’s Silverlight WordPress plug-in.
- Learn more about the Erno’s SL to WordPress plug-in.
It Works for Me
I installed the plug-in today and it seems to work as advertised. I’ve added a animated Silverlight scene to this post via the plug-in. It only took a few seconds to insert the Silverlight app. Nice!
If you have Silverlight 2 installed you should see it below.
The plug-in defaults to placing your XAP file in a folder (on the web server) based on year and month. This location is suppose to be configurable but I haven’t figured out how to show the configuration screen for the plug-in yet.
The Embedded Silverlight Application
This is an example from an future series about Silverlight animation.
I am glad you like it! To edit the options go to the option menu and select settings.
Select Plug-ins and then you should be able to see the plug-in and a button that allows you to configure the default options.
BTW: what version of silverlight did you use to create this xap? I installed version 2 on this machine and it is not showing the animation…
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The problem with the silverlight was due to a relatve path issue. When the post is viewed from the home page, the XAP file is downloaded correctly. When viewed on the permalink page, the relative path is incorrect. Using ../wp-content/uploads works on the permalink page but then the main page is broken. The anwer in my case was to change the URL for the Silverlight plugin to http://blog.wpfwonderland.com/wp-content/uploads/...
I fixed the plug-in. It shouldn’t be necesary anymore to enter an absolute path anymore. See my blog for the update.