March 1012

Upgrade to BlogEngine.Net 1.6

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I have just finished upgrading the site to use BlogEngine.Net 1.6. The new version was released on 1st February 2010 and includes some nice new features. To be honest I wasn’t really expecting any new features, just some security updates, but its always nice to have new toys to play with.

I have to say that I’m pretty pleased with the Automated comment spam filtering and am giving that a go for the moment. For some reason I don’t seem to get reliable emails when comments are added, so sometimes they go unapproved for months. As I’d like to engage with people that’s really not very helpful!

The upgrade process was pretty painless, I have modified a few of the files (because I don’t like the mark-up they’ve used) and so I used Beyond Compare to check what changes I needed to keep. I decided it would be easier to download the latest version of BlogEngine then merge my changes back into that. About the only things that needed  more than a moments thought were the web.config (no surprises there, and more on this in a second), the Comments page (because I don’t like the mark-up there one bit) and a slight bit of customisation I’d done to one of the modules.

So anyway the web.config file – they provide you with a brand new version, really all you need to do is migrate your connection string over. But I’ve plugged ELMAH into my site and have used Danny Douglass’s Flickr photo integration (Note this seems to be down at the time of writing). I have also enabled xhtml mode="strict" and uncommented some of the enhancements because they seem to run on my server. The only thing that’s not 100% as I’d like it at the moment is that I’ve had to use SqlMembershipProvider whereas the default web.config is using the newer DbMembershipProvider – but for some reason I don’t seem to be able to login when changing between the providers, I can’t see where the DbMembershipProvider is storing its data… It looks like it should be in one of the beXXX tables but the values there don’t let me log-in… Any ideas anyone?

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    Awesome post, thanks for the info.

  4. Chung Scallan Canada Chung Scallan (Wednesday, April 07, 2010) #

    I just love this BlogEngine platform, it makes a blog look and act like a blog if you ask me. Do you prefer it over WordPress and Blogger?

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