BlogEngine.NET Christmas update

by Mads Kristensen 18. December 2008 00:06

Some exiting things have been going on with BlogEngine.NET lately.

Theme-pack

13 new and very slick looking themes have been cleaned up, bundled and released on CodePlex. Since we decided not to include more than a couple of themes with BlogEngine.NET 1.4 we knew a theme-pack was necessary. Thanks to Janko for gathering the themes and cleaning them up. Download the theme-pack.

.NET 3.5 and Visual Studio 2008

The current version 1.4.5 is the last official version on .NET 2.0 and in Visual Studio 2005. Right now the team is already working in Visual Studio 2008 and will upgrade to .NET 3.5 during Christmas. A lot of people asked for this, so now we are giving it to you.

Windows Live Writer 2009

Al Nyveldt has been in contact with the Windows Live Writer team to ensure that the BlogEngine.NET will support the new features of WLW 2009 and vica versa. Only BlogEngine.NET and Wordpress has been given special attention by the WLW team which we are very proud about. Read more on Al’s blog.

TinyMCE upgrade

For those of us who don’t use Windows Live Writer, but prefer the online HTML editor, there is good news. We are upgrading the TinyMCE implementation to the newest version and it should work much smoother. It’s not only prettier, it’s also better. Hopefully, this will happen over Christmas as well.

* Only $4.95/month ASP.NET & Windows 2008 + IIS 7 Hosting! FREE SQL Included

Tags:

BlogEngine

Comments

12/18/2008 2:50:48 AM #

steve

cool looking forward to upgragine my blog

steve Ireland |

12/18/2008 3:54:29 AM #

Davide Espertini

Great information Mads!! Thanks!

Davide Espertini Italy |

12/18/2008 6:12:31 AM #

Marwan

happy to here about Blogengine.NET Smile
it is a long time since the last updates!

Marwan Tunisia |

12/18/2008 6:15:30 AM #

trackback

BlogEngine.NET Christmas update

You've been kicked (a good thing) - Trackback from DotNetKicks.com

DotNetKicks.com |

12/18/2008 1:30:30 PM #

Nicholas

This is great news. Do you, by any chance, happen to know how to fix the syndication.axd causing "Object reference not set to an instance of an object" exceptions?

Nicholas United States |

12/18/2008 3:40:07 PM #

Bryan Avery

Looking forward to the updates.

So, So please to see my Theme (Triathlon) making it in to the Theme pack  Smile

I'm hoping to work on an Extended Newsletter subscription system over Christmas

Bryan Avery United Kingdom |

12/18/2008 4:41:01 PM #

david

Thanks for this great news

david France |

12/18/2008 6:37:49 PM #

Juan

Will you start using .NET 3.5 features? Or can I recompile it targetting 2.0?

I ask because my hosting provider does not have .NET 3.5 installed yet

Juan Argentina |

12/18/2008 8:05:33 PM #

Mads Kristensen

@Juan,
The 1.5 release will not use 3.5 features so you should be safe with your hosting provider for now.

Mads Kristensen Denmark |

12/18/2008 11:39:25 PM #

Lee


Awesome news to see development moving on Smile

Lee United Kingdom |

12/19/2008 5:36:51 AM #

trackback

New Theme!

New Theme!

Another Tech Blog |

12/19/2008 5:49:01 AM #

Scott Wade

That fantastic.  Look forward to the post-Xmas .NET 3.5 SP1 update...and support for the latest LiveWriter builds!

Scott Wade United States |

12/19/2008 2:38:40 PM #

Janko

I'm glad I could help, can't wait to see it live!

Janko Serbia |

12/20/2008 7:35:24 AM #

Anthony Grace

Great work!

Is there some way we can preview the themes without having to download everything?

Anthony Smile

Anthony Grace United States |

12/21/2008 5:47:38 PM #

jame_peng

Good work

jame_peng |

12/26/2008 1:34:12 AM #

Joe

not seeing the big deal with 2008 upgrade if there are no 3.5 enhancements planned yet - get the source and open it in VS 2008 - the conversion wizard will upgrade it for you in a few minutes.
I am .NET developer but am trying wordpress out because of all the plugins. Most (i'm finding out) are garbage but a few gems out there. I would rather go .NET - maybe we can make equivalent functionality for the most popular wordpress plugins????

Joe United States |

12/30/2008 12:19:34 AM #

PWills

Seconding Anthony's comment: in the v1.3 days, this page -- http://dotnetblogengine.net/page/themes.aspx -- had screenshots of all the themes. Are there plans to update the screenshots to include the new ThemePack themes?

PWills United States |

1/23/2009 8:48:20 PM #

Dan

Great to hear that BlogEngine development continues. I've just moved my blog from Subtext to BlogEngine 1.4.5. Aside from not all tags showing up in the tag cloud, it's all working great so thanks for all your work and I hope you like the Dark Neon theme I've adapted your standard theme into.

Dan United Kingdom |

3/14/2009 9:28:50 PM #

Toni

...also curious and waiting!
When will it be released?

I love blogengine.net - you´re doing a great job!

Toni Austria |

3/30/2009 1:44:01 AM #

Heath

Just curious if there is any word on the next release of Blogengine.net?  Great work...

Heath United States |

4/23/2009 6:31:05 PM #

pingback

Pingback from pimp.webproasp.com

Web Pro ASP - Active Server Page Development News

pimp.webproasp.com |

Comments are closed

About the slave

Mads Kristensen Mads Kristensen
Web developer at ZYB and founder of BlogEngine.NET. More...

LinkedIn ZYB Facebook Last.fm Twitter View Mads Kristensen's profile on Technorati

The Lounge

Disclaimer

The opinions expressed herein are my own personal opinions and do not represent my employer's view in anyway.

© Copyright 2008