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BlogEngine Multi-Blog Dog Food

by BizTron 8. March 2010 07:00

Current Multi-blog enabling LINQ to SQL BlogEngine.NET Provider. (Updated 3/12/10)

I have been asked for this code so that we can share the multi-blog solution that has been working for me for almost a year now. This is the time to check it out and help make it work for yourself and others. I’m going to continue to “dog food” this here. Current version of BlogEngine.NET supported by this provider, as of this post, is 1.6.0.3. Although I need to update my own site(s) from 1.6.0.1.

How will I update?

Mine is easy. Drop in the new DLLs.

If I do a code “diff” and find the Web code to have changed recently (which I’m sure it did) I will copy those specific files to the Web folder.

How do you update from a clean BlogEngine.NET 1.6.0.3 code base?

You should download the latest BE.NET code from codeplex and create a folder for the solution.
Extract the code from the zip into your solution folder. (…and follow the directions for setting up a stand-alone SQL Server Blog)
Copy and unzip the
BlogEngine.Linq2SQL.3-12-10.zip
folder into the solution folder with the Core and Web projects.
Add an existing Project to the solution, select the BlogEngine.Linq2Sql project.
Verify the References (to project “BlogEngine.Core”)
Add a reference to “BlogEngine.Linq2SQL” from the “BlogEngine.NET” Web site.
Change Target Framework on BlogEngine.NET Web site to “.NET Framework 3.5”
Execute the SQL build script “Linq2SqlUpdate.sql” to add schema to support Multi-Blogs.
- Make sure to run against the Database you created in Step 2.
Assuming you are using the correct connection string, modify the Web.Config
- blogProvider, membership, roleManager
- See: Web.Config.xml

For those who like pictures to verify what you’re doing, here are a couple. I’d rather have an installer but I’m not quite there yet.

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Step 9:

        1: <BlogEngine> 

       2:     <blogProvider defaultProvider="Linq2SqlBlogProvider"> 

       3:         <providers> 

       4:             <add name="Linq2SqlBlogProvider" type="BlogEngine.Linq2SQL.Linq2SqlBlogProvider, BlogEngine.Linq2SQL" connectionStringName="BlogEngine"/> 

       5:             <add name="XmlBlogProvider" type="BlogEngine.Core.Providers.XmlBlogProvider, BlogEngine.Core"/> 

       6:             <add name="DbBlogProvider" type="BlogEngine.Core.Providers.DbBlogProvider, BlogEngine.Core" connectionStringName="BlogEngine"/> 

       7:         </providers> 

       8:     </blogProvider> 

       9: </BlogEngine> 

  

 

  

<membership defaultProvider="LinqMembershipProvider"> 

    <providers> 

        <clear/> 

        <add name="LinqMembershipProvider" type="BlogEngine.Linq2SQL.LinqMembershipProvider, BlogEngine.Linq2SQL" passwordFormat="Hashed" connectionStringName="BlogEngine"/> 

        <add name="XmlMembershipProvider" type="BlogEngine.Core.Providers.XmlMembershipProvider, BlogEngine.Core" description="XML membership provider" passwordFormat="Hashed"/> 

        <add name="SqlMembershipProvider" type="System.Web.Security.SqlMembershipProvider" connectionStringName="BlogEngine" applicationName="BlogEngine"/> 

        <add name="DbMembershipProvider" type="BlogEngine.Core.Providers.DbMembershipProvider, BlogEngine.Core" passwordFormat="Hashed" connectionStringName="BlogEngine"/> 

    </providers> 

</membership> 

<roleManager defaultProvider="LinqRoleProvider" enabled="true" cacheRolesInCookie="true" cookieName=".BLOGENGINEROLES"> 

    <providers> 

        <clear/> 

        <add name="LinqRoleProvider" type="BlogEngine.Linq2SQL.LinqRoleProvider, BlogEngine.Linq2SQL" connectionStringName="BlogEngine"/> 

        <add name="XmlRoleProvider" type="BlogEngine.Core.Providers.XmlRoleProvider, BlogEngine.Core" description="XML role provider"/> 

        <add name="SqlRoleProvider" type="System.Web.Security.SqlRoleProvider" connectionStringName="BlogEngine" applicationName="BlogEngine"/> 

        <add name="DbRoleProvider" type="BlogEngine.Core.Providers.DbRoleProvider, BlogEngine.Core" connectionStringName="BlogEngine"/> 

    </providers> 

</roleManager>

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