Roman Clarkson

Here is a fix for the Cannot use a leading .. to exit above the top directory issue on Codeplex.  Just add the folder and contents to the root of your BE installation.  I ran it for a full day and had no errors with GoogleBot or Slurp.  However, as soon as I removed it, error after error after error.  We worked a couple of coding overrides in the default.aspx, which is still there in the download as of this post, but it did not take care of the issue.  We will do something different.  This is not going to be the long view fix.

App_Browser.zip

BlogEngine.Net, General

I went fishing about a week ago and had a little bit of luck.  I caught one and my buddy limited out early.  He was using a Prince Nymph.  He easily caught a dozen fish before he found his last one.

General

I was serious when I said I liked this blog software.  I got accepted onto the team!  I am working on the html text editor portion of the project.  I spent some time reviewing the exiting code and how it all works together.  There are several opportunities to improve.  Isn't there always?  I have had a lot of experience with DotNetNuke and I hope to port some of that experience over. 

Initally, I am trying to determine how to make the html editor, now TinyMCE, to be a interchangable with other html editors.  Then existing html editor needs so many improvements, image gallery, file manager, upload, etc.  I know that I don't want to spend much of my time customizing an editor that works for some of us and not all of us.  I like to use RADEditor, and I have used others, because there is little I need to configure. 

Anyone else like to see an interchangable html editor in BlogEngine.Net?  Let me know.

General, BlogEngine.Net

Here's the deal.  I have been looking for a blog engine that I could finally make my own.  I have explored many of the blogs out there and found that all of them lacked something.  I needed to have a variety of features.  I needed tagging, categories, MetablogAPI, additional pages, tracking, mulitple users, themes, and the ability to add additional modules if necessary.  I finally found BlogEngine.Net on CodePlex.  There are many reasons for the choice, one is that it meets all of my needs.  From a developers point of view it has a temendous potential.

I have been wanting to use DotNetNuke for the longest time since I host it and advocate it.  However, I could not use third party tools to blog.  Many blog applications do not allow you create additional pages, eg. dasBlog, but BlogEngine.Net does. 

I am going to be doing software tutorials that deal with CSLA.Net and the implementation of them.  The additional pages will allow for a psudeo article type functionality.  I may even find time to contribute to it.

I have been wanting to give back to the open source community that has given me many of the tools that I need to succeed in bussiness.  I cannot give to them all but I can give to some.

I look forward to publishing more now that I finally found a blog home. 

General blogengine.net, dotnetnuke, csla.net

I am trying out the CS2007 for a while.  I have been wanting a "one" site solution for my publishing and family stuff.  So far it is hard to find any themes that people offer for download.  I will keep looking.  Let me know if you find any.

General

If you ever get stuck burning an ISO image to DVD here is the trick.

"I found however that the dvdburn.exe utility that is included with the Windows Server 2003 Resource Kit Tools did the trick.

I installed the resource kit tools under Vista, and then just had to open a cmd prompt and type:

 dvdburn d: {imagefilename} /erase

where {imagefilename} was the fully qualified path to the iso image I wanted to burn."

Courtesy of ....

One Man Shouting - How To Burn an ISO DVD Image under Windows Vista (5308)

General, Microsoft, Tips and Tricks, Visual Studio

If you see this post it means that BlogEngine.NET is running and the hard part of creating your own blog is done. There is only one thing you need to do from this point on to take full advantage of the blog and that is to set up the first author profile.

Setup

Find and open the users.xml file which is located in the App_Data folder. Edit the default user and provide your own name as the username and a password of your choice. Save the users.xml file with the new username and password and you are now able to log in and start writing posts.

Write permissions

To be able to log in to the blog and writing posts, you need to enable write permissions on the App_Data folder. If you’re blog is hosted at a hosting provider, you can either log into your account’s admin page or call the support. You need write permissions on the App_Data folder because all posts and comments are saved as XML files and placed in the App_Data folder.

On the web

You can find BlogEngine.NET on the official website. Here you'll find tutorials, documentation, tips and tricks and much more. The ongoing development of BlogEngine.NET can be followed at CodePlex where the daily builds will be published for anyone to download.

Good luck and happy writing.

The BlogEngine.NET team

General blog, welcome

Having problems with finding time servers? 

General, Tips and Tricks

"There are no great acts; there are only small acts of great love."

Durward W. Owen

Mr. Pi Kappa Phi 2006

General religous

Not a bad popup window make.  It's amazing that in the fifteen years of working on websites there are so many people still looking for it and commenting on it.  Go Figure? 

Link to The JavaScript Source: Code Generators: Popup Window Maker

General, .Net, Visual Studio