So, I seem to have finished upgrading the blog to BlogEngine.NET 1.6.

As usual, there were some problems caused by the way BE.NET loads everything into memory, instead of reading it from the app_data when needed. This causes some problems, especially with the users/roles and my widgets.

Easily solved though, but it IS a problem that there is no way to force a reload of e.g. settings.

Actually, that is not entirely true, it is possible, but you have to upload the web.config file again, then IIS restarts the application and thereby forcing a reload of settings. It just seems cumbersome.

So, my wish for the next version of BE.NET is a way to force a reload of everything. It is a bother the other way.

Other than that, the upgrade went very smooth.

I just realized that there is a new release (1.6) of BlogEngine.net available.

So, now I need to find some time for upgrading my blog.

Nice...

I discovered BE.NET some 3 or 4 months ago. It looked very nice, and I have successfully deployed it in 3 blogs as of this writing.

Once I had gotten the hang of it, I wrote my first widget. I have a craving, you might say, for random quotes. But I can't make do with a single new quote every day. I want one whenever I refresh. So I wrote one myself.

It was ok, but the quotes supplier I had found didn't really have a lot of quotes, so it cycled fairly quickly through them.

Then I discovered http://quotes4all.net/. And it even supplies a xml feed. So a few hours of coding and testing, and voila: Random Quotes v2 for BE.NET. I fully intend make it configurable, as quotes4all allow a great deal of customization.

Right now, it has no configuration, so it just conforms to my basic wishes.

RandomQuote.zip (1.96 kb)