BlogEngine.NET

New Post: Is Blog Engine Dot Net still alive?

jsmorris — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 22:49:59 GMT

I would either update the http://www.dotnetblogengine.net site or 301 redirect search hits to this location (codeplex). Most of the search indexed links go to the http://www.dotnetblogengine.net/ site, which looks like it is missing some CSS or something. Look at this way, every hit you get from a search engine shows an old, broken site. This reflects upon a user's potential interest; "This is what blogengine is all about. Pass."

Also, to developer the codeplex site appeals to expected genre: developers. What would a Web producer, web designer, blogger think? Probably that this product is designed for developers (i.e. more hardcore skills). Make the main site show off the product and link to the codeplex site for the programmatic details.

By the way, the reason why I am writing this is because I like blogengine, but think that it could be more and attract more attention. I am also a happy user :), but am losing confidence because the visibility is decreasing.

New Post: Is Blog Engine Dot Net still alive?

DavidMiles — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 22:27:34 GMT

I think having the last release on the homepage of CodePlex dating back to April 2009 makes the project look stalled - the homepage external to CodePlex looks abandonned - albeit the soource code may be being updated, but that is for developers not those that wander into the project, their first impression is not going to be a good one and I doubt that they would look at the source code tab - they will assume that there has been no action since April 2009

New Post: error when adding widget

woahjones — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 22:22:30 GMT

Just started getting yellow exclamation point in browser status window, and adding widget doesnt work, when clicking the "add" button for any widget

Any ideas?

thanks!

New Post: Is Blog Engine Dot Net still alive?

woahjones — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 22:20:46 GMT

what are your suggestions for better marketing, just update the home page more frequently?

New Post: Is Blog Engine Dot Net still alive?

jsmorris — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 21:18:08 GMT

I would agree, my initial reaction after going to the old blogengine.net site was that the project was orphaned. In fact i was perusing around looking for another oss blog too use on my site since I am still on 1.03 and the main page made the project look dead. It's cool if it's still alive and kicking, but market your work a little better and you'll get a larger user base.

Commented Issue: Running 1.5.0.7 against Case Sensitive SQL Server fails.. [10950]

OhmegaStar — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:35:16 GMT

Theres some errors in the casing for the column names in the DbBlogProvider.cs, DbMembershipProvider.cs, DbRoleProvider.cs

I've corrected the casing errors, but i still am having trouble changing the default admin password and navigating to these pages;

/admin/Pages/Users.aspx
/admin/Pages/Profiles.aspx
/admin/Pages/Add_entry.aspx

Anybody have this running agains a case sensitive SQL Server ??

How do i submit the changed .cs files ??

Regards,

Henrik Ohm

New Post: Is Blog Engine Dot Net still alive?

jamolina — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:33:42 GMT

While there seem to be a fair amount of source checkins, I think KodiakMx was talking about the Releases, there haven't been any since April. In this business you gotta move faster.

New Post: Limit the rss text size

ikaran — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 09:11:27 GMT

I wanted to achieve this as well.. I end it up modifying the SyndicationGenerator.cs in the core logic. Following places you have to edit:
Line number: 525

//------------------------------------------------------------
//    Modify post content to make references absolute
//------------------------------------------------------------    
            string content = ConvertPathsToAbsolute(arg.Body);
//ikaran - ShowExcerpt
            content = Utils.StripHtml(content);
            if (content.Length > 200)
                content = content.Substring(0, 200) + "...";

Line number: 789

//------------------------------------------------------------
//    Modify publishable content to make references absolute
//------------------------------------------------------------
    string content = ConvertPathsToAbsolute(arg.Body);
            
//ikaran - ShowExcerpt
            content = Utils.StripHtml(content);
            if (content.Length > 200)
                content = content.Substring(0, 200) + "...";

You will need to recompile the project.

New Post: Limit the rss text size

jha_jee — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 06:44:56 GMT

Is there any way to limit the rss that BE creates in Subscribe page.

I want it to set 200 chars or something.

Thanks

New Post: BlogEngine 1.5 RC1 not displaying my theme

deepusurana — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 06:44:25 GMT

I'm unable to post the comment in to my blog ( http://www.blogbzz.com )

so please help me

Created Issue: Widget problem? Unable to cast object of type 'ASP.widgets_newsletter_widget_ascx' to type 'WidgetBase' [10975]

bdp973 — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 05:05:01 GMT

About once or twice a day on my web site, I notice an error message in my widget bar for each individual widget saying,

Unable to cast object of type 'ASP.widgets_newsletter_widget_ascx' to type 'WidgetBase'.

I've attached a screenshot. What happened? Is this a hosting issue? Do they need to restart IIS?

GoDaddy hosts one of my web sites using BlogEngine 1.5.0.7. I'm using shared hosting (economy) so I don't have much control over the IIS configuration. I have not modified the Web.config file. I am using a customized theme but my site.master uses the blog:WidgetZone in a side bar. It's very intermittent. When I do discover the problem, I actually move out and back in the bin folder (BlogEngine.Core.dll and BlogEngine.Core.XML) and it seems to correct the problem until the next time. Just curious if others have experienced this too and whether it's a problem with GoDaddy or shared hosting in general.

New Post: Is Blog Engine Dot Net still alive?

ckincincy — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 05:03:14 GMT

You know that isn't an ignorant question.

While DNBE is still alive it has stalled this year from my perspective.

New Post: Getting 'BlogEngine' is undefined

cubangt — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 04:49:46 GMT

I found a solution to my issue in this post.

http://blogengine.codeplex.com/Thread/View.aspx?ThreadId=54245

the error is no longer there and so far changes are working.. now to get the pages to match the rest of my clients site..

thanks for the help and suggestions..

New Post: Is Blog Engine Dot Net still alive?

karstenj — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 04:16:41 GMT

No doubt -- look at all the check-ins under "source code". This is a very active project...

New Post: Is Blog Engine Dot Net still alive?

woahjones — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 02:42:24 GMT

are you serious lol?

New Post: Unexpected node type Element

adigerati — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 01:19:00 GMT

I'm able to get BlogEngine.NET 1.5 up and running using XML (I'm using the source version). Where I'm running into problems is when I try to switch to a SQL database. I switched out the SQLServerWeb.Config with the XMLWeb.Config. I put in the connection string and boom, it breaks. I have been able to get it to work by changing the defaultProvider="DbBlogProvider" to defaultProvider="XmlBlogProvider". Of course that kind of defeats the whole purpose, except my original reasoning for going SQL was so I could integrate accounts with YAF (Yet Another Forum) and with the defaultProvider set as XmlBlogProvider it does populate the user table with accounts that I create in the control panel.

Here is a little more information.

Line 32: 			WidgetSettings ws = new WidgetSettings("be_WIDGET_ZONE");
Line 33: 			ws.SettingsBehavior = new XMLDocumentBehavior();
Line 34: 			XmlDocument doc = (XmlDocument)ws.GetSettings();
Line 35: 			return doc;
Line 36:

Any help would be greatly appreciated and if I need to post more info, let me know.

Thanks In Advance.

New Post: Garbage characters when going to settings page

jmitch47 — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 16:29:22 GMT

Found this article related to that error: http://blogengine.codeplex.com/Thread/View.aspx?ThreadId=24456

Made the necessary code changes and republished the code, hopefully this will fix the issue.

New Post: Garbage characters when going to settings page

jmitch47 — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 16:03:21 GMT

LOL, the error is back, but this time I am seeing the error in the log... I am guessing it is a data issue, probably doesn't like some of the data in one of the settings I am guessing:

System.Web.HttpUnhandledException: Exception of type 'System.Web.HttpUnhandledException' was thrown. ---> System.ArgumentException: Culture name 'zh-TW\_vti_cnf' is not supported.
Parameter name: name
   at System.Globalization.CultureInfo.GetCultureInfo(String name)
   at System.Globalization.CultureInfo.GetCultureInfoByIetfLanguageTag(String name)
   at admin_Pages_configuration.BindCultures()
   at admin_Pages_configuration.Page_Load(Object sender, EventArgs e)
   at System.Web.Util.CalliHelper.EventArgFunctionCaller(IntPtr fp, Object o, Object t, EventArgs e)
   at System.Web.Util.CalliEventHandlerDelegateProxy.Callback(Object sender, EventArgs e)
   at System.Web.UI.Control.OnLoad(EventArgs e)
   at System.Web.UI.Control.LoadRecursive()
   at System.Web.UI.Page.ProcessRequestMain(Boolean includeStagesBeforeAsyncPoint, Boolean includeStagesAfterAsyncPoint)
   --- End of inner exception stack trace ---
   at System.Web.UI.Page.HandleError(Exception e)
   at System.Web.UI.Page.ProcessRequestMain(Boolean includeStagesBeforeAsyncPoint, Boolean includeStagesAfterAsyncPoint)
   at System.Web.UI.Page.ProcessRequest(Boolean includeStagesBeforeAsyncPoint, Boolean includeStagesAfterAsyncPoint)
   at System.Web.UI.Page.ProcessRequest()
   at System.Web.UI.Page.ProcessRequest(HttpContext context)
   at ASP.admin_pages_settings_aspx.ProcessRequest(HttpContext context)
   at System.Web.HttpApplication.CallHandlerExecutionStep.System.Web.HttpApplication.IExecutionStep.Execute()
   at System.Web.HttpApplication.ExecuteStep(IExecutionStep step, Boolean& completedSynchronously)

New Post: Garbage characters when going to settings page

jmitch47 — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 15:35:37 GMT

I got the error checking software installed, but for some reason it was still giving the garbage characters but no error was showing in the ELMH log. However, the permissions thing with IIS7 did fix the issue, so no more garbage characters. Thank you for your help.

Jeremy

New Post: Getting 'BlogEngine' is undefined

cubangt — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 15:26:30 GMT

Welcome to BlogEngine.NET 1.5.0 this is the version.. and i unchecked that option and logged out and back in and still the same error..