.NET Blog - Chris Frazier Style

So, mainly because of my comment problems with dottext 0.95, I decided to go ahead and take the plunge. Here's how I got CS installed in less than an hour:

• Used the web installer. This was pretty useful as I'm very prone to error with just the sql scripts ;) . Just set  bool INSTALLER_ENABLED = true; in the default.aspx of the /installer folder and got the base community up and running. Thanks Dan for your walk thru that outlined basically the same thing.
• Ran Kevin Harder's DotText-CS-Converter. I tried to download CSVerter, but got a resource not found error from the download location. This one worked well, and very quickly for me.
• Followed Ken's outline of How to configure CS::Blogs for a single blog
• Added the latest version of the MetaBlog API implementation so I can post w/ PostXING

That was it. My only gripe so far is the MetaBlog API doesn't return fully-qualified urls like the dotText implementation did. I can't believe they'd introduce a regression like that, but maybe there's a reason for it. It totally breaks some features of PostXING tho - like the view blog feature. I guess I could code around it (or, maybe I should code around it :) but I'd like to see if it's addressed first. Another thing that I should probably address is the fact that one user can have many blogs in Community Server. The way PostXING works now, it would only grab the first one returned b/c that's the way that I've always worked with it.

Another thing that irked me was that Community Server broke an nGallery vdir I had running up here. Funny thing is, it only broke one that was version 1.6.1. I have a v1.0 (I think) nGallery up as well, and it works just fine afaict. Weird.

Anyways, that's my story and I'm stickin to it.

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