Visual Basic example program using the Tortuga Movable Type ActiveX Component to assign an additional category to an existing post.
The Tortuga Beta ActiveX can be downloaded from
Tortuga ActiveX
The download contains an ActiveX DLL that needs to be registered using regsvr32.exe. You may then import the "Tortuga ActiveX" into your VB project.
The DLL contains objects for RSS, Atom, Blogger 2.0, Blogger 1.0, MetaWeblog, Technorati, Yahoo! Site Explorer, and Web Search.
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' Use the Blogger 1.0 API to get the Blog ID
Dim b1 As New Blogger1
b1.Login = "admin"
b1.Password = "***"
b1.ServiceUrl = "http://www.someblog.com/blog/xmlrpc.php"
b1.GetUsersBlogs
blogId = b1.GetBlogId(0)
Dim mt As New MovableType
mt.Login = "admin"
mt.Password = "***"
mt.ServiceUrl = "http://www.someblog.com/blog/xmlrpc.php"
' Get all the possible categories for this blog.
mt.GetCategoryList blogId
' Assume there is a category named "movies". Get the category ID...
categoryID = mt.GetCategoryIdByName("movies")
' Get the categories for the post with the post ID = "4"
postId = "4"
mt.GetPostCategories postId
' Add the "movies" category to this post.
isPrimary = 0
mt.AddPostCategory categoryID, "movies", isPrimary
' Now update the server with the new categories.
mt.UpdatePostCategories postId