So far I've shown you how to create basic plugins for Windows Live Writer, in this next guide I'm going to show you how you can use settings in your plugin to make things easier for your end user, you can create default options (that they can customise if you allow them). I'm going to show you how to do exactly that, have the user be able to change the default settings that are applied everytime the plugin is called. I will be carrying this on from my last guide so if you haven't got that already, download the source now.
First thing's first, what options does your plugin need? This is still going to be a simple plugin, so anything you put in can't be changed once inserted, so the options and settings need to be something that the user would want. The simple plugin we have been using so far in this series has been to insert some simple text into the blog entry, so the option I'm going to use is to make it default to use a bold style for the text.