Is there a finished ASP.Net based Weblog out there?

[BukHix]

Does anybody have or know of a ready to go ASP.Net based Weblog?

I have considered rolling my own but I don't think I am ready for that type of application yet.

[DevGrp]

http://www.dotnetweblogs.com
http://blog.jjulian.com

[BukHix]

Thanks DevGrp I have been anticipating a software release version of Scott's Weblog. So far he has put most of his effort into fine-tuning the online version, which is a very nice product. I hope it eventually makes it in the wild.

I didn't see an option for downloading Jeff Julian's Blog. Did I just miss it or is it not open to public use yet?

I am basically looking for the ASP or ASP.Net version of Movable Type/Grey Matter etc.

[Cander]

What exactly is a blog? I have one myself, but it occured to me to wonder what is so special about it beyond getting a free website and updating it?

[Cander]

I may take a crack at developing my own, time permitting, if someone would post me some info to what it is exactly and if their is some kind of standard for it, a link to that would be nice too.

[hellswraith]

I was thinking the same thing, what is so hard about it? Just taking stuff you write and storing in a database, or xml file. Then when you go to the site, retrieve that info and display it. Unless I am missing a lot about it... never did it myself.

[Cander]

Yeah. There has to be something special about it, otherwise what is so special about blog beyond what we have had for years?

[BukHix]

I don't think there is anything extra special about a Blog. No more then there is about the vBulleten software that this forum runs on.

In my case I want a Blog for two reasons. One is that Blogs are easy to update and can be done using a browser from anywhere. The second reason is that it allows me to keep my political rants linear, archived and searchable.

I have tried to roll my own a couple of times but have not been able to pull all the great features of the big Blogs into mine. Actually I never even managed to get the not so great features working how I wanted. I eventually started looking for an open source project like MT or GM to work with. ScottW posted yesterday that he is close to making his open source so I have be able to download it soon.

http://aspnetweblog.com/posts/7425.aspx

[ScottW]

Hi Everyone!

Correct. The source code wil be released in the next couple of weeks.

At the moment, it is about 20,000 + lines of C#, so I am not sure this group will be to into it , but it is fairly easy to follow and broken out into a number of different components. My hope is that people will be able to reuse the core framework and simply roll their own UI...although I will be including a couple skins/templates as well.

The basics of creating a blog are quite easy (as others have mentioned). My system does a lot more than the basics though which is why it has taken some time to get it out into the public.

-Scott

[hellswraith]

20,000 lines of code for a web log? Wow, I didn't know they had that much to them. The forum I just created only has about 10,000 total including the actual html of the aspx pages and stored proceedures.

Where can I look at weblogs. I would like to see what is offered as far as features.

[BukHix]

If you are interested in the application part of it Movable Type, Grey Matter and Blogger are the big ones.

If you are more interested in some of the Bloggers sites out there. Here is a short list that I enjoy reading.

http://www.andrewsullivan.com/
http://michaeltotten.blogspot.com/
http://www.littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/
http://www.terpsboy.com/
http://www.instapundit.com/
http://www.reason.com/hitandrun/
http://www.spinsanity.org/

[BukHix]

I did find a very nice XML / ASP based Blog so if anyone is interested you can get it here.

BlogWorks XML v1.1.1

Using XML negates the need for an Access / SQL database which is great for those who can not afford either.

[DevGrp]

Hey, I just finished mine. http://blog.pjwc.com Its still a work in progress though. I'll post the code sometime this week. It was'nt that hard. I just need to tweak it some more.

I'm thinking about adding some of the features ScottW mentioned, if time permits. Right now it only supports MS SQL Server and MSDE. It should'nt be too hard to add Access to the mix though.

Also, if anyone can tell if EhostingBiz.com supports the SQLClient data provider. My whole blog application was built around the SQL data provider, but it would'nt work when I uploaded the application, so I had to use the OLE DB data provider.