I am thinking about switching my blog away from Community Server to something that is simpler and focuses more on just being a good blog.
What are the different .NET blogging engines and which one do you recommend?
I think Subtext is a pretty good blog engine.
metanaito
2009-01-02 23:15:26
As of version 2.1 it lacks a key feature that stopped my from using it; multi-author capabilities.
Nick Josevski
2009-10-21 23:57:29
Looking at readme file for version 2.3, it has a section for "Security and Multi-User", which looks like it is for multi-author capabilities. Apparently you set it up through the web.config.
Adam Nofsinger
2010-04-15 13:16:41
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The best .NET blog engine I've seen is BlogEngine.NET. It's open source and well supported and documented. It has (in my opinion) a pretty decent design that makes it easy to "jump into" the code and start changing things if you need to do that. It also has a great plug-in engine to extend features that it doesn't have.
Dan Herbert
2009-01-02 22:47:33
I use BE, but the recent security flaw (downloadable password file/saving passwords in cleartext) made me a bit uncomfortable, to say the least. I like the xml-file based storage system, however.
Will
2009-01-02 23:01:31
The security flaw Will is talking about was resolved a long time ago and is no longer present in versions greater than 1.4. At the time this comment was posted, BE is at version 1.6
PhantomTypist
2010-04-07 03:23:49
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Not to forget: dasBlog.
dasBlog is an ASP.NET blogging application. It runs on ASP.NET 2.0, (all versions 1.9x and prior run on ASP.NET 1.1 & ASP.NET 2.0) and is developed in C#. dasBlog is an evolution of the BlogX weblog engine initially written by Chris Anderson and contributors.
The initial conversion from Blogx was created by Clemens Vasters. dasBlog adds lots of additional features like Trackback, Pingback, Mail notifications, and over 50 other major modifications some unique only to dasBlog.
Here is a comparison between DasBlog and BlogEngine.NET:
splattne
2009-01-02 22:56:08
It's worth pointing out that the comparison article is from October 2007.
Matt Olenik
2009-05-02 15:28:23
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I have tried a BlogEngine.net, Subtex and dasBlog.
My goal was to set a blog engine to be up & running with minimal effort, while I can set mandatory things (to select a proper theme, configuration, ...).
Among those three blog engines it came up, that the best "out of the box" blog engine is dasBlog. How it is easy maintainable and upgradeable I have yet to figure out.
If you are using an ISS I recommend you to try out a Microsoft Web Platform Installer 2.0 Beta. It is really easy to install an application from Windows Web App Gallery (where you can find blogs engines too) on your IIS.
Peter Stegnar
2009-05-02 15:22:50
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AtomSite is an ASP.NET MVC option that looks quite attractive.
Matt Olenik
2010-02-20 06:01:16