Blog engines for ASP.Net (maybe MVC) web sites

Question

I've built a web site on ASP.NET MVC and one little section of it should be a blog. I'm looking for a blog to integrate. In the worst case scenario it'd be a WordPress with a custom skin and RSS integration to the rest of the site. The best would be to have an ASP.NET MVC add-on, but I can live with ASP.NET WebForms.

Do you have any recomendations on the engine? I've been checking out BlogEngine.Net and I'd like to have some other ideas to compare. Anything in particular you can point to regarding this integration?

Answer 1

Scott Hanselman contributed to DasBlog and is using it as his blog engine - it was created with hosting in mind, so works under medium trust and doesn't use a DB.

It is an WebForms app, not MVC, however. He runs his blog with it.

Answer 2

Three most famous are those:

Classical Asp.Net

• dasBlog
• Subtext

Asp.Net Mvc

• Oxite

Answer 3

Check BlogEngine.NET, it is easy to understand and extensible.
It is build using ASP.NET Webforms.

Answer 4

I've recently been playing with N2CMS - it's more of a CMS than just a Blog Engine (which is the main reason I've been playing with it), so might be overkill for your requirements.

It has both Medium Trust support, and an MVC example - I've basically taken the Medium Trust sample and mixed that with the ASP.NET MVC example to produce something that the client's very happy with.

Answer 5

atomsite - not mature enough, but promising

Answer 6

Just for the record, I ended up using WordPress. Applying the "skin" was not hard, probably as hard as with any .Net blog and although it will probably be harder to maintain in the long run, in the short term is probably the most stable and featureful blogging solution.