BlogEngine.NET 1.4 - Memory usage spike?

  • July 6, 2008
  • James Skemp
Update, July 9, 2008: This update is a little late, but ... Mads was able to determine what the issue was and has provided a fix. I'll be trying another update this week. I recently upgraded to BlogEngine.NET 1.4, from 1.3. While it was, overall, a smooth enough process, while trying to dig into the large memory usage spike, I ran into a number of issues. I've written about BlogEngine.NET in the past, and overall I've been very happy with it.

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BlogEngine 1.3 upgrade issues

  • December 24, 2007
  • James Skemp
There's been quite the party for the last 30 minutes or so. BlogEngine 1.3 was released a couple of days ago, and I finally upgraded. Unlike what I should have done, I upgraded my live installation first. Yikes. For some reason, all of the permissions on the sub-folders and files was lost. Since web.config couldn't be accessed, the site went down - hard. After a bunch of Google searches, and no solutions, I started pressing buttons.

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BlogEngine.NET Theme - MWRT-002

  • October 13, 2007
  • James Skemp
Updated for BlogEngine.NET 1.3! Not a very original name, but I can see how it was created ... Anyways, I'm proud to present another theme for BlogEngine.NET, called MWRT-002. This theme is based upon the template of the same name by MyWebResource, and made available on Open Source Web Design. A zip of the theme can be downloaded from my testing site at JamesRSkemp.net. Download the zip file - for BlogEngine.

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Template changed again (October 2007)

  • October 6, 2007
  • James Skemp
Once again, I've changed the template for the site. This time I'm using Royal Flowers. The name comes from the purple flowers (taken outside of Madison Wisconsin's capitol building (see the Galleries for more shots) and that purple usually signifies royalty, or richness. I'm not sure that the left-side navigation has been done the best it could be, but ... overall I'm pretty happy with it.

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Swan Dive updated for BlogEngine.NET 1.2 release

  • September 30, 2007
  • James Skemp
BlogEngine.NET 1.2.0.0 has been released. In 'honor' of this release, I've updated Swan Dive, using the Standard theme as a guide. Any questions or concerns can be directed to me via the comments on the original post. View the original post, and download Swan Dive.

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Compiling BlogEngine.NET source with Microsoft Visual C# 2005 Express Edition

  • September 5, 2007
  • James Skemp
The follow covers how to compile BlogEngine.NET from the most recently available source code. This was originally posted to the Codeplex discussions for BlogEngine.NET, and will eventually get moved into the wiki. (Update Sept 8, 2007: Added to the BlogEngine.NET wiki, but not yet linked from other pages. Also made a minor change to step one.) Compiling source with Microsoft Visual C# 2005 Express Edition 1) Download the current source code from the Releases tab or the Source code tab on CodePlex.

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BlogEngine.NET 1.1 Theme - Swan Dive

  • July 25, 2007
  • James Skemp
Updated for BlogEngine.NET 1.3! Update 8/16/2008: This theme should work fine on BlogEngine.NET 1.4.5 or lower, using the 1.3 link. I'm proud to present a theme for BlogEngine.NET (tested with 1.1) called Swan Dive. This theme is based upon the template of the same name by Homefront Studios, and made available on Open Source Web Design. While this is technically my third theme for BlogEngine.NET, it's the first for public consumption.

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Helpful Dreamweaver regular expressions for BlogEngine.NET

  • July 21, 2007
  • James Skemp
While looking for posts, in the App_Data/posts directory, I needed a find and replace for the title of the posts.  It's a simple query, and here it is: <title>[\s\S]*</title> Note: This post is probably more for me than anyone else ;) 

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BlogEngine.NET 1.1 released

  • July 16, 2007
  • James Skemp
I'm really excited about this (since it fixes a few bugs that have had an impact on me). Find out more at www.dotnetblogengine.net/ Now that 1.1 has been released, I'm going to be actively looking at theme creation; I've got mine, of course, but I've got some ideas for others as well.

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BlogEngine.NET Theme - StrivingLife (almost done)

  • July 14, 2007
  • James Skemp
I've almost completed converting the WordPress theme to a BlogEngine.NET theme. The only hard part is when BlogEngine.NET (or ASP.NET) restricts write access to the CSS file. In these cases I have to tweak the CSS file using Firebug. It's a bit of a chore, since BlogEngine.NET compresses the CSS file so much (which is a good thing, in the long term), but since I'm also changing the file locally in Dreamweaver, it's just a matter of copying and pasting (over the Firebug CSS content).

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