Roman Clarkson

I wanted to share with everyone that I created a new online magazine using BlogEngine.Net. I made use of all the existing features of of Blogengine along with a few new widgets and extensions.  I even created a new theme to go along with it.  I don’t know if I will share it at this time because it is specific to my site.  But the odds are it will show you some new ways to use the software.

Take a look at it and let me know what you think.

I will get into the specifics of the site in a later post.  

Just an update for everyone.  You can now visit the site at http://www.ichoosetofeel.net.  Please take a look and review it.  It's ad free and we don’t ask for money.

.Net, BlogEngine.Net, Book, Essays, General, Looking Back, Music, Peace, Religious Science, Reviews online magazine, contributors, editor, new, theme, blogengine

We have been working away on features.  Myself, I have been working on migrating some code to approve comments, code highlighting, and xmlroleprovider.  I have found some on CodePlex and elsewhere.  They are all wrapped around two or three other classes and I have to integrate them.  I have been looking for the smallest, easiest to expand, etc....  Will keep you posted.  I found out that some of the code I have been working on still needs a little tweak here or there.  I will get that done soon.  This is a test run for the Live Writer using my new categories code.  The categories did not show up.  I have to fix that now.  Yeah :(

blogengine, syntax highlighting, code highlight

I am publishing a first draft of my idea on using an HTML Editor provider of the BlogEngine.Net. 

Essentially, I added an html provider to the web application.  I got a little frustrated with tinyMCE.  So, I decided that I wanted an easy way to interchange html editors.  I prefer Telerik and FCKEditor over tinyMCE any day.  However, the motto for BlogEngine.Net is no third party assemblies.  I like that idea.  No supporting third party assemblies.  Period. 

I am still working on the provider for tinyMCE.  The issue that I am running into is the having the js files load and execute on the textbox that is being rendered.  It can be fixed but I haven't finished it yet. 

The code is pretty well organized and you should be able to review it with much confusion.  Here is what I did...

1. I added a Control.Textbox class in the App_Code/Controls directory
2. Removed the reference to the tinyMCE web user control page
   <%@ Register src="~/admin/tinyMCE.ascx" mce_src="~/admin/tinyMCE.ascx" TagPrefix="Blog" TagName="TextEditor" %>
3. I left the <Blog:TextEditor runat="server" id="txtContent" TabIndex="4" /> extactlly the same.
4. I added this to the App_Code
    
5. I added this folder to support the two html editors that require external files
   
6. I added this to the <BlogEngine> Section
<BlogEngine>
  <blogProvider defaultProvider="XmlBlogProvider">
    <providers>
      <add name="XmlBlogProvider" type="BlogEngine.Core.Providers.XmlBlogProvider"/>
      <add name="MSSQLBlogProvider" type="BlogEngine.Core.Providers.MSSQLBlogProvider"/>
    </providers>
  </blogProvider>
  <htmleditorprovider defaultProvider="FCKEditorHTMLProvider">
    <providers>
      <add name="TextboxHTMLProvider" type="BlogEngine.Core.Providers.HTMLEditors.TextboxHTMLEditorProvider" height="200" width="500"/>
      <add name="FreeTextBoxHTMLProvider" type="BlogEngine.Core.Providers.HTMLEditors.FreeTextBoxHTMLProvider" height="200" width="500"/>
      <add name="FCKEditorHTMLProvider" type="BlogEngine.Core.Providers.HTMLEditors.FCKEditorHTMLProvider" height="300" width="800"/>
      <add name="tinyMCE" type="BlogEngine.Core.Providers.HTMLEditors.tinyMCEHTMLEditorProvider" height="300" width="800"/>
    </providers>
  </htmleditorprovider>
</BlogEngine>
7. Run the solution and it works.

Take a look and tell me what you think.  I know how I am voting.

BlogEngine.NET.zip (2.62 mb)

.Net, Reviews, Visual Studio, BlogEngine.Net blogengine, ideas, provider