BlogEngine.Web–Web Application Project

Converting BlogEngine.NET to Web Application Project has been a popular exercise ever since Microsoft introduced WAP project template for Visual Studio. Without getting into nitty-gritty of arguing about advantages one has over the other, converting from web site to web application is easy enough for BlogEngine.NET community to have both models.

BlogEngine 2.5 - quick overview

BlogEngine 2.5 final release is [ready for download](http://blogengine.codeplex.com/releases/view/69117), and most anticipated new feature is obviously ability to run multiple blogs on single code base. It's been a [top request](http://blogengine.codeplex.com/workitem/2716) for a while, so hopefully it'll make lots of people happy

Hosting BlogEngine.NET 2.0 on GoDaddy

Go to hosting dashboard/content/IIS management and click “create” link. This is an interface GoDaddy provides you to create virtual directory for your ASP.NET application. Give a name for directory and don’t forget to check “set application root” – this is akin to “configure virtual directory as application” in IIS world

Using BlogEngine.NET 2.0 with .NET 4.0 framework

BlogEngine 2.0 is .NET 3.5 application, but you can use it with .NET framework 4.0 with little effort by compiling source code as .NET 4.0 assembly. You can do it with free [Visual Web Developer Express](http://www.microsoft.com/express/Web/) 2010 which can be downloaded as stand alone or installed with MS web platform installer, whichever you prefer. Here is short walk through.

Custom Filters in BlogEngine 1.6

Spam comments are annoying and sometimes looking at comment allowed by Akismet or some other anti-spam service you think – I’m sure I would do better. It is just so hard to get the plumbing in or I would made my very own solution. With [BlogEngine.Net](http://dotnetblogengine.net/) 1.6 it is not, you can easily implement your own anti-spam filter

BlogEngine.NET now at version 1.6

After few delays new version of [BlogEngine.Net](http://dotnetblogengine.net/) has been released. Although this release is mostly incremental with minimum breaking changes, there are quite a few improvements, enhancements and bug fixes to make it worthwhile for those stuck on previous versions to upgrade

Some Thoughts on Poll Results

One real surprise for me was that not many people use [BlogEngine](http://dotnetblogengine.net/) as their sandbox and playground. To me as a developer from the beginning it was mostly a toy and only over time it grew up into something bigger with responsibilities attached, so I’m sort of impressed.

BlogEngine.net and where YOU want it to go

This [poll](http://www.micropoll.com/akira/mpview/774137-223959) is not official and may be a little early, but it will provide [BlogEngine](http://dotnetblogengine.net/) team with some ideas on where we all, as a community, want to move. Are we looking for Wordpress.net? NewCrazyCool.net? Something in between? Please share your opinions and thoughts, it's all greatly appreciated.

How to email posts to BlogEngine

Thanks to the magic of [Metaweblog API](http://blogengine.codeplex.com/wikipage?title=MetaweblogApi) and [BlogMailr](https://www.blogmailr.com/) service, you can email posts to [BlogEngine](http://dotnetblogengine.net/) just as easily as publishing them from [Windows Live Writer](http://www.nyveldt.com/blog/post/Windows-Live-Writer-Customization-for-BlogEngineNET.aspx), [Word](http://rtur.net/blog/post/2008/06/07/Publishing-to-BlogEngine-from-Word-2007.aspx) or [iPhone](http://rtur.net/blog/post/2009/10/04/Publishing-from-iPhone-to-BlogEngine.aspx).

Using ELMAH with BlogEngine.NET

Few days ago I’ve noticed that “error.aspx” becomes quite popular destination on my site. What’s going on? I never run into errors, how do I know what others do to break in? [Elmah](http://code.google.com/p/elmah/) to the rescue! This little utility specifically designed to run in the background and record any ASP.NET errors so you can review them later at your convenience.

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