If you see this post it means that BlogEngine.NET 1.6.0 is running and the hard part of creating your own blog is done. There is only a few things left to do.

Write Permissions

To be able to log in to the blog and writing posts, you need to enable write permissions on the App_Data folder. If you’re blog is hosted at a hosting provider, you can either log into your account’s admin page or call the support. You need write permissions on the App_Data folder because all posts, comments, and blog attachments are saved as XML files and placed in the App_Data folder. 

If you wish to use a database to to store your blog data, we still encourage you to enable this write access for an images you may wish to store for your blog posts.  If you are interested in using Microsoft SQL Server, MySQL, VistaDB, or other databases, please see the BlogEngine wiki to get started.

Security

When you've got write permissions to the App_Data folder, you need to change the username and password. Find the sign-in link located either at the bottom or top of the page depending on your current theme and click it. Now enter "admin" in both the username and password fields and click the button. You will now see an admin menu appear. It has a link to the "Users" admin page. From there you can change the username and password.  Passwords are hashed by default so if you lose your password, please see the BlogEngine wiki for information on recovery.

Configuration and Profile

Now that you have your blog secured, take a look through the settings and give your new blog a title.  BlogEngine.NET 1.4 is set up to take full advantage of of many semantic formats and technologies such as FOAF, SIOC and APML. It means that the content stored in your BlogEngine.NET installation will be fully portable and auto-discoverable.  Be sure to fill in your author profile to take better advantage of this.

Themes and Widgets

One last thing to consider is customizing the look of your blog.  We have a few themes available right out of the box including two fully setup to use our new widget framework.  The widget framework allows drop and drag placement on your side bar as well as editing and configuration right in the widget while you are logged in.  Be sure to check out our home page for more theme choices and downloadable widgets to add to your blog.

On the web

You can find BlogEngine.NET on the official website. Here you'll find tutorials, documentation, tips and tricks and much more. The ongoing development of BlogEngine.NET can be followed at CodePlex where the daily builds will be published for anyone to download.

Good luck and happy writing.

The BlogEngine.NET team

Before reading this post you have to know what IHttpHandler intaface does.

Basically, the IHttpAsyncHandler interface allows you to serve content asynchronously from a HTTP handler. This is great when you need to free up the worker thread to do processing like IO work etc. ASP.NET actually uses fewer threads when it runs asynchronously, which is great for performance and scalability. That’s because each thread is returned much faster to the thread pool.

There you are a simple example.

I have found very helpful article that you would like also about performance of Linq to SQL. These optimizations will bring us to ADO.NET SqlDataReader performance.

There you are the article. 

I won't talk about how regex is useful. You know regex patterns are ugly and hard to understand then I saw Josh Flanagan's Readable Fluent Regex Api, there is another thing to like LINQ rigth now.

Very nice example to see how the api is cool. 

Download source and binaries.

Enjoy!

If you don't know Live Alert SDK, you don't know how to alert your users in a cool way ! Then you want to see it. There are some cool articles that you would like to see;

Alerting Your Users with Live Alerts and ASP.NET AJAX

Building ASP.NET 3.5 AJAX Extender Controls

 

Twitter is the telegraph of the Web 2.0. If you don't use it you should, It is great way to find out what's happening in programming world. I have found a list of some Guru programmers and their Twitter URL. Now you can follow them and you might learn usefull things. And you can follow the up to date list on the original post.

Don Demsak
http://twitter.com/donxml

Keyvan Nayyeri
http://twitter.com/keyvan

Phil Haack
http://twitter.com/haacked

Miguel de Icaza
http://twitter.com/migueldeicaza

Shawn Wildermuth
http://twitter.com/TheADOGuy

Andrew Badera
http://twitter.com/andrewbadera

Michael Palermo
http://twitter.com/palermo4

Jeff Atwood
http://twitter.com/codinghorror

Scott Hanselman
http://twitter.com/shanselman

Jessy Libertry
http://twitter.com/jliberty

ALT.NET
http://twitter.com/altdotnet

Gavin Joyce
http://twitter.com/gavinjoyce

Sam Gentile
http://twitter.com/SamGentile

Dare Obasanjo
http://twitter.com/Carnage4Life

Chuck Boyce
http://twitter.com/chuckboycejr

Justice Gray
http://twitter.com/justice_gray

Rory Blyth
http://twitter.com/rory_blyth

John Lam
http://twitter.com/john_lam

Jason Massie
http://twitter.com/statisticsio

aspnetmvc
http://twitter.com/aspnetmvc

Paul Nielsen
http://twitter.com/PaulNielsen

Scott Koon
http://twitter.com/lazycoder

Rob Conery
http://twitter.com/robconery

Jon Galloway
http://twitter.com/jongalloway

Chad Myers
http://twitter.com/chadmyers

Jeremy Miller
http://twitter.com/jeremydmiller

Brad Wilson
http://twitter.com/bradwilson

Chris Bowen
http://twitter.com/chrisbowen

If you want to start learning about .NET 3.5 Enhancements, there is a free training kit available from Microsoft that you can download to learn these cool new features :

• ADO.NET Data Services
• ADO.NET Entity Framework
• ASP.NET AJAX History
• ASP.NET Dynamic Data
• ASP.NET MVC
• ASP.NET Silverlight controls

Also to check these MIX 08 Videos will show you some of the features :

• ADO.NET Data Services with Pablo Castro - MIX08 Session Video
• MIX08 Video Presentation - ADO.NET Data Services Framework with Mike Flasko
• ASP.NET Dynamic Data Websites Presentation at Mix 08
• Unity IoC - Dependency Injection in ASP.NET MVC Framework Screencast

I was reading the post (Mix08 Session Overview: Building Great AJAX Applications from Scratch Using ASP.NET 3.5 and Visual Studio 2008) from Brad Abrams then I have seen very cool feature to combine the scripts into a single request that saves the round trip and compresses better.

The text is from his post;

Download the completed sample or just the starter files to play along at home. 

We can use the new ScriptCombining feature to combing the scripts into a single request that saves the round trip time and compresses better.

But first we need to know exactly what scripts are being loaded.  To see this let's look at the ScriptReference debugging tool.

Just drop it on your page

	    <cc2:ScriptReferenceProfiler ID="ScriptReferenceProfiler1" runat="server" /> 
	

and you see exactly what is loaded.

We also, have both the debug and retail scripts ready to download in case we want to share this across several pages.

Then cut and past that into ScriptManager.

			<asp:ScriptManager runat="server" ID="sm">
	<CompositeScript>
	<Scripts>
	<asp:ScriptReference Name="MicrosoftAjax.js" />
	<asp:ScriptReference Name="MicrosoftAjaxWebForms.js" />
	<asp:ScriptReference Name="AjaxControlToolkit.Common.Common.js" 
	Assembly="AjaxControlToolkit, Version=3.0.11119.25533, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=28f01b0e84b6d53e" />
	<asp:ScriptReference Name="AjaxControlToolkit.ExtenderBase.BaseScripts.js" 
	Assembly="AjaxControlToolkit, Version=3.0.11119.25533, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=28f01b0e84b6d53e" />
	<asp:ScriptReference Name="AjaxControlToolkit.TextboxWatermark.TextboxWatermark.js"
	Assembly="AjaxControlToolkit, Version=3.0.11119.25533, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=28f01b0e84b6d53e" />
	<asp:ScriptReference Name="AjaxControlToolkit.Rating.RatingBehavior.js" 
	Assembly="AjaxControlToolkit, Version=3.0.11119.25533, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=28f01b0e84b6d53e" />
	<asp:ScriptReference Name="AjaxControlToolkit.Compat.Timer.Timer.js" 
	Assembly="AjaxControlToolkit, Version=3.0.11119.25533, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=28f01b0e84b6d53e" />
	<asp:ScriptReference Name="AjaxControlToolkit.Animation.Animations.js" 
	Assembly="AjaxControlToolkit, Version=3.0.11119.25533, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=28f01b0e84b6d53e" />
	<asp:ScriptReference Name="AjaxControlToolkit.Animation.AnimationBehavior.js" 
	Assembly="AjaxControlToolkit, Version=3.0.11119.25533, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=28f01b0e84b6d53e" />
	<asp:ScriptReference Name="AjaxControlToolkit.PopupExtender.PopupBehavior.js" 
	Assembly="AjaxControlToolkit, Version=3.0.11119.25533, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=28f01b0e84b6d53e" />
	<asp:ScriptReference Name="AjaxControlToolkit.AutoComplete.AutoCompleteBehavior.js"
	Assembly="AjaxControlToolkit, Version=3.0.11119.25533, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=28f01b0e84b6d53e" />
	<asp:ScriptReference Name="AjaxControlToolkit.ConfirmButton.confirmButtonBehavior.js"
	Assembly="AjaxControlToolkit, Version=3.0.11119.25533, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=28f01b0e84b6d53e" />
	</Scripts>
	</CompositeScript>
	</asp:ScriptManager>
	

Now, let's go back to firebug...

This time, we have two request 118KB and 4.39s... Much better!

 

As you know, ASP.NET Web Administration Tool works locally only.  In this article you will know how to get it working with the remote websites too. It recommends 2 option for that.

So lets read it. 

There is a project ready to run for hosting video on the web.

The project uses Silverlight streaming that makes broadcasting easier and Linq to Sql for data access layer.

For details : Click

CodePlex project page : http://codeplex.com/videoshow 

Enjoy!