Live Writer crashing when adding hyperlinks

For a while I have had a problem that when I tried to add a hyperlink via the toolbar in Live Writer I get a dialog that Live Writer has stopped working, it doesn’t exit, it just des not open the modal window for adding a hyperlink. It was irritating, but as I could edit the HTML source and put in the link by hand I could not be bothered to work out how to fix it.

Well today I wanted to add a new pluggin to Live Writer and it seem the options dialog suffers the same problem, so I had to fix it. I searched with Microsoft Live Search and it found nothing, so I tried with Google and found the solution on Tom Soisoonthorn’s blog , it is missing text in linkglossary.xml file.

Update 5 Mar 09 – On checking the file linkglossary.xml again I think the reason Live Writer stopped working was the due to the installation of fiddler2, I can’t see why they are related, but it is in it’s configuration section the error lies.

Beyond the fact that this fixed my problems, it is interesting to note this is the first time a good few months where I have not found what I wanted via Live Search – it is much improved, but Google still seems to get just that bit more.