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News Blog - For December 2008

1. Wizard Release 0.8

   The eighth release of BlogSvc includes a new setup wizard. Also, this release contains the following new or improved features:

   • Setup wizard will test your installation on your web server
   • Setup wizard will modify your service.config and users.config
   • New green theme called "Settings" (see right)
   • All entries are cleansed from html to xhtml
   • Comments allow html only from a whitelist of tags
   • Authorized comments can use any tags
   • New support for wlwmanifest.xml
   • Entries can now be split in live writer or with <!--more--> comment
   • Collection page now only shows first part of post when split
   • New ExtendedEntriesOn setting for each collection which alters wlwmanifest.xml
   • Feeds now only show first part of post when ExtendedEntriesOn
   • Updates to jQuery rater plugin based on community feedback
   • Updated Search to use render partial
   • Updated views and partials to use strongly typed models
   • BaseController and BaseModel greatly increase view potential
   • Updated all existing entries to Xhtml
   • Remove emails from annotation feeds (to prevent spam)

   Visit the release page on codeplex to download.

   
   Posted by JarrettV on December 24 at 1:38 AM

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2. New Setup Wizard

   The next release will make setting up BlogSvc.net very simple.  You won't even need to manually edit the config files as they are done as part of the wizard.

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   Wizard Steps

   The wizard currently has 3 steps:

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   Posted by JarrettV on December 22 at 11:29 AM

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3. Extended Entries Support

   I added extended content support for people who like to only show part of the post on their feed and listing pages.

   There is a new setting on each collection called "ExtendedEntriesOn" which will alter the wlwmanifest.xml depending on the setting. Please note that setting this value to false will not disallow the <!--more--> tag. However, a theme designer may alter the display/layout of the theme based on this setting.

   The collection page and simple entry partial were modified to have a "Read More" link whenever there is extended content.

   For feeds, if ExtendedEntriesOn=True then each entry in the feed will not show the extended content (it will only show the content before the split).

   Live Writer has built in support for splitting entries as seen in the picture to the right.

   Posted by JarrettV on December 18 at 6:59 PM

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