Questions tagged [blogengine.net]

BlogEngine.NET is an Open Source blog based on ASP.NET.

BlogEngine.NET is a simple and light weight, but extendable, ASP.NET blog. Features include:

  • Multi-author support
  • Pingbacks and trackbacks
  • Event based for plug-in writers
  • Theming directly in master pages and user controls
  • Gravatar and coComments implemented
  • Live preview on commenting
  • Comment moderation
  • BlogML import/export
  • Extension model
  • Code syntax highlighting
  • Mono support
  • Full editing and creation of pages that are not posts
  • Extended search capabilities
  • Tag cloud
  • Self updating blogroll
  • Runs entirely on XML or SQL Server. Your choice.

More information

http://www.dotnetblotengine.com - Introduction, Roadmap, Themes, Videos etc http://blogengine.codeplex.com/ - Project home page

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Does ASP.NET's BlogEngine.Net Stack Up to Wordpress?

I'm somewhat familiar with Wordpress and I've used it a little. There is a huge community with tons of plugins and themes etc. Does the BlogEngine.Net compare favorably? Is there another .NET CMS that you would recommend? Thanks for your help.
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.Net 4.0 System.Web.Security.MembershipProvider ambiguous reference?

I have recently upgraded my BlogEngine.Net installation to 1.6 and .Net 4.0, however, I did not build BlogEngine.Core when I performed the upgrade. However, when I try to build the BlogEngine.Core project now, the compile fails because it cannot…
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How to install downloaded BlogEngine.Net Theme?

I have downloaded a new theme from web to use it for my locally hosted blogengine website. I want to use this theme. I tried extracting the downloaded theme and putting it into ..\MyBlog\themes folder. It still does not show up as available theme…
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How do you manage asp.net SQL membership roles/users in production?

How do you setup an asp.net sql membership role/membership provider on a production machine? I'm trying to setup BlogEngine.NET and all the documentation says to use the ASP.NET Website Administration tool from Visual Studio but that isn't available…
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Integrating my website with BlogEngine.Net

I am developing a site (ASP.Net based) that, besides other features enables the users to blog as well. I am thinking of integrating BlogEngine.Net to my portal. From whatever little I have analyzed, integrating at presentation layer will be far more…
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How to adapt WordPress theme to BlogEngine.net

Do you know any guidelines on how to create a new BlogEngine.net theme having source code of a WordPress theme?
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Blogging Software - Wordpress vs BlogEngine.NET vs Anything else

Basically I need to choose one so that, I can get familiar with it quickly and then customize it to my needs. I'm a .NET developer and know classic ASP too. But I think understanding PHP will not be a problem for me and also think that it won't be…
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How do I Extend Blogengine.Net to collect statistics of visitors?

I love BlogEngine. But from what I can se it does not collect the standard information about the visitors I would like to see (referrer, browser-type and so on). When I log in as Admin I have a menu item named "Referrer". I can choose a weekday and…
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Change MySql Case sensitivity with phpMyAdmin?

I am running Blogengine.Net and have noticed that the tables are all created lower case (table name be_settings) but a lot of the queries are written mixedcase (Select * from be_Settings). This works fine if your MySql instance is running on…
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Is there a stable ASP.NET blogging control (designed for integration within existing site)?

I saw dotnetblogengine.net and from forum posts I got the impression that it's not so easy to integrate it into existing site. Is there a modern blogging/news solution which is meant to be used just like any other ASP.NET control?
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Running BlogEngine.NET with ASP.NET MVC under same website?

Can anyone please help me with this? I have a Windows 2008 server and MVC 2.0 site is hosted under IIS 7.0 root directory. The site works fine. I want to use the BlogEngine.NET with my site. For example if my mite name is http:// mysite.com (which…
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Who is using BlogEngine.Net for their blog? Does it run well? Will it scale? :P

I'm thinking about using BlogEngine.NET to launch my blog. I'm a C# programmer and was wondering was BlogEngine.NET has in the belly. Does it scale well? Is it caching properly? Is it memory intensive? Can you easily add/remove functionality? I also…
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Difficulties in migration from BlogEngine.Net to WordPress

I have to move a clients BlogEngine.Net site to WordPress. I have had people ask why would I want to that, I just am doing what has been requested of me. I have managed to get the BlogML file exported out of BlogEngine.Net. I have gone over it and…
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Adding a counter for number of blog post views - BlogEngine.net

I am setting up a new blog and looked for a widget I could add that would give me the total number of views for a blog post (and it would be nice to find out the number of views in the last X days) and didn't find any. Is there a quick way of…
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How do I configure this IIS 7.5 child application properly?

I have a parent application hosted in the root folder of my website. It's a .NET 4.0 application and the application pool is obviously set to 4.0. I want to configure a child application at: /blog This is a .NET 2.0 application (it's…
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