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BlogEngine.NET 1.6 Released

Tue, 02 Feb 2010 03:08:59 GMT

This evening, the BlogEngine.NET team released version 1.6....

Welcome to the new DotNetKicks

Mon, 11 Jan 2010 15:00:14 GMT

Welcome to the new DotNetKicks - Lots of improvements and even more on the way!

Exploring Spark View Engine for ASP.NET MVC - Part 1

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 15:56:23 GMT

If you are working with ASP.NET MVC and you haven't taken a look at the Spark View Engine, you owe it to yourself to spend a few minutes exploring Spark. While it might not be for everyone, Spark View Engine offers a different option to the standard WebForms View Engine used in MVC and it has a lot going for it.

SociableBE-Extension for BlogEngine.NET

Sat, 21 Feb 2009 18:46:12 GMT

Social bookmarking sites allow websurfers to save, catalog, and share interesting pages they find online. The SociableBE-Extension appends links for your readers to use those sites to the end of each of your blog's posts, increasing your potential audience. While Sociable is originally developed as a Wordpress-Plugin in PHP, SociableBE is based on the main idea but re-developed for BlogEngine.NET in C# and with a simple copy'n'paste installation.

Nested/Threaded comments for BlogEngine.NET

Fri, 16 Jan 2009 23:31:52 GMT

One of the big updates for 1.5.0 is nested comments as seen in other tools like WordPress 2.7, IntenseDebate, and Disqus.

Back to Basics: Delegates, Anonymous Methods and Lambda Expressions

Sat, 29 Nov 2008 00:46:10 GMT

Great article on .NET basics

Back to Basics: Generics

Tue, 25 Nov 2008 21:01:12 GMT

Introduction There are language features that are nothing more than syntactical sugar. For example, C#'s coalesce operator (??) is a short-handed and specialized if-else. Object initializers make it easier to set properties on a newly created objects. Some features though go beyond mere convenience and add real value. I know it seems like we constantly have to learn new things, while at the same time actually produce code to pay our bills. It can be hard to pick and choose what to learn and what can wait. Let me be straight up though: if you haven't mastered generics yet, you're starting to fall dangerously behind.

Introducing SemanticEngine.NET

Fri, 26 Sep 2008 07:16:15 GMT

Technologies or formats such as FOAF, APML, SIOC, XFN tags and microformats are some of the building blocks of the social aspects of the semantic web. They are used to create cross-site profiles of people and also represent relationships between them. XFN and microformats are somewhat easy to start using, but FOAF, APML and SIOC are a different story. Here's a new class library to make it easier..

Visual Studio Theme Generator

Thu, 07 Aug 2008 19:16:02 GMT

A fun little ASP.NET MVC Application I wrote to generate Visual Studio themes based off of 3 given colors. I have always felt that selecting every color to make a decent theme is way too repetitive. This web application automatically chooses complements / contrasts based off your initial color selections (and uses jQuery to let you preview your theme before creating). Check it out and let me know what you think.

SubSonic v2.1 Controller and Utilities

Tue, 05 Aug 2008 04:16:02 GMT

Recently, SubSonic v2.1 was released and we upgraded the code we've previously published to support this new version.

Learning Ruby via IronRuby and C# Part 6

Tue, 05 Aug 2008 14:01:03 GMT

In part 6 we look at Hashes (or Associative Arrays) and how they are used in the Ruby language. We also look at how you can use them in place of explicit method parameters.

How to migrate dasBlog to BlogEngine.NET

Mon, 04 Aug 2008 23:46:04 GMT

Reasons and migration steps from dasBlog (old and handy) to BlogEngine.NET (new and shiny)

BlogEngine.NET 1.4.5 Upgrade Guide

Mon, 04 Aug 2008 21:31:03 GMT

Al Nyveldt: BlogEngine.NET 1.4.5 Upgrade Guide

Get country from a browser in ASP.NET

Thu, 31 Jul 2008 21:31:07 GMT

A simple and pretty accurate method of retrieving a visitor's country and language from the browser.

subsonic 2 1 released

Thu, 10 Jul 2008 02:46:02 GMT

the title says it all

Using VistaDB Express with BlogEngine.NET 1.4

Thu, 10 Jul 2008 17:01:13 GMT

Now that the latest version of BlogEngine.NET is out, it is easier than ever to get your blog running with VistaDB Express. I've been using VistaDB Express with BlogEngine.NET for a little while now and just love it....

Creating widgets for BlogEngine.NET 1.4

Mon, 07 Jul 2008 20:01:02 GMT

The new BlogEngine.NET 1.4 let's you easily create and distribute widgets like the ones you see on the right hand side on this page. Widgets are basically just small pieces of content and you can leverage the entire .NET Framework to create them. They can pull data from BlogEngine.NET itself or from external sources like web services or remote XML files. Everything is allowed and possible.

MVC Membership with Preview 3

Wed, 02 Jul 2008 20:01:03 GMT

The MVC Membership Starter Kit has been updated to work with Preview 3 of the ASP.Net MVC framework.

Blog Engine.NET1.4 Released

Tue, 01 Jul 2008 23:01:03 GMT

Blog Engine.net 1.4 has been released. more...

Blog Engine.NET1.4 Upgrade Guide

Tue, 01 Jul 2008 14:01:04 GMT

The upgrade process is fairly easy but there are a few things to be aware of. more....

BlogEngine.NET 1.4 released

Tue, 01 Jul 2008 04:14:14 GMT

BlogEngine.NET comes with many new exciting features and possibilities for developers. It has taken some time, but now version 1.4 is finally available for download.

Ninject 1.0 Goes Gold at Discord&Rhyme

Tue, 17 Jun 2008 20:46:16 GMT

Ninject, an excellent Dependency Injection Framework with support for Silverlight, the compact framework, and all regular flavors of .NET just hit 1.0.

Guide to the semantic web

Fri, 09 May 2008 05:01:02 GMT

The calm after the storm: Mads explain what is semantic web and why it matters. And how we can get ready for it when Web 3.0 arrives.

New features in the next BlogEngine.NET

Fri, 28 Mar 2008 11:46:02 GMT

Mads Kristensen describes many of the features coming in the next release of BlogEngine.net. "This is by far the biggest release in BlogEngine.NET history"

Sound of one man testing

Thu, 21 Feb 2008 17:16:02 GMT

Recently I was chatting with a friend of mine and he asked if a single developer could be successful following TDD on a team that does not follow TDD. My simple answer was YES, they can. But there are a few things you must consider.....