Posted by Al Nyveldt on Jan 27, 2008
I finally finished up my customizable BlogEngine.NET theme. I started it long ago to see how easy it would be as well as how much you could actually do within a BlogEngine.NET theme without changing the code base. I ended up taking the theme much further than a theme should go and decided to scale it back to what you see here. A customizable theme to me is a theme that has options to change the look and display without requiring the user to work with the co...
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Posted by Al Nyveldt on Jan 17, 2008
I love quotes. I enjoy seeing new quotes and I like to save them if it is handy. I used to have a text file of quotes I collected, but it was lost in the great hard drive crash of 2007. As I do enjoy quotes, I made a BlogEngine.NET widget for use in themes for collecting quotes and displaying a new one everyday. I've been using it for a few months now and I'm finally getting around to sharing it with the BlogEngine.NET community. "Uhhhh, ok, Al....
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Posted by Al Nyveldt on Jan 09, 2008
While I've very biased, I do really like BlogEngine.NET. It is a fine blog software and handles my simple blog well enough. However, there are a few features that are extremely nice and I wanted to take a moment to highlight them and make sure you are taking advantage of them if you are a BlogEngine.NET user.
1. Extensions Rock
When Mads Kristensen first introduced Extensions, I thought it was a cool idea, but I didn't really appre...
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Posted by Al Nyveldt on Jan 07, 2008
The third screencast in my recent series is a walk through of setting up the SQL Membership and Roles providers in place of the default XML versions. These SQL providers are built-in to the .NET 2.0 framework and are not BlogEngine.NET components. BlogEngine.NET was designed to allow using these providers however and is fully supported.
This screencast is a bit longer than the previous two as I start without the membership and roles services in a...
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Posted by Al Nyveldt on Jan 04, 2008
My second 1.3 screencast is a walk through of setting up the SQL Server provider from BlogEngine.NET. It starts where the Installation screencast leaves off and takes you through database setup and updating your web.config.
The SQL Provider setup changed a bit between versions 1.2 and 1.3 making the old screencast incorrect. I hope to be writing a more detailed post about SQL provider setup in the day ahead.
Anyway, this is a very short vi...
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