This is essentially a supplement to Scotts articles on how to write a Windows Live Writer plugin. In this article I'll show you how to implement a simple Amazon Web Service lookup and take that information to create a simple layout for a book review blog post.
Live Writer plugins basically fall into a number of categories but the one in this simple example to get you all started is probably the easiest one to start coding with and is based on the CreateContent API. Windows Live Plugins work in essentially the same way for each type of plugin that you create. You have a main cs (or vb) class file that instantiates any windows forms that you want to use, gather the information then plonk that information into Windows Live Writer. The basic example we'll start coding is a book review template. To make things slightly easier, we use Amazon web services to look certain information about the book and also to get a picture of the front cover of the book.
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