HOWTO: Get current PostApiUrl from ContentSource plugin

Question

Is there way to get currently selected blog PostApiUrl from ContentSource plugin?

Answer 1

Unfortunately not, at least, not in ContentSource plugins. You can get the url if you're using a HeaderFooterContentSource or a NotificationHookPlugin type, but not ContentSource.

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SL - Windows Live Platform MVP
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Answer 2

Here is a hack that works on the 14.0.8xxx version of WLW, but you have no promise that Microsoft won't change things.  Set a reference to the WindowsLive.Writer.BlogClient.dll (in the same location the api reference was located) then you can call:

var blog = new WindowsLive.Writer.BlogClient.Blog( WindowsLive.Writer.BlogClient.BlogSettings.DefaultBlogId )

which will give you a Blog object and from that you can call:

blog.PostApiUrl

 

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matthew Hintzen

Answer 3

Interesting. I haven't tried this so can't answer my own question as yet. Does that method work if you have multiple blogs configured? I notice that it calls the DefaultBlogId, which I'm guessing would be the one that gets loaded when Writer is opened. Can that BlogSettings class call a different blog?

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SL - Windows Live Platform MVP
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Answer 4

Actually, the DefaultBlogId is changed if you change blogs in WLW.  Which of course makes me suspect that it will be renamed in a future revision of WLW, because you are right "DefaultBlogId" is misleading, it would have been better if they named the property "CurrentBlogId", because that is how it acts. 

The Id is actually a Guid, that corresponds to key contianing settings for the registered WLW blog, stored in the registry under HKCU\software\microsoft\windows live\writer\weblogs.

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matthew Hintzen