My blog now is powered with the latest version of BlogEngine. I used version 1.1 before, didn't bother to upgrade to 1.2. Well, actually I wanted to but due to various reason I decided not. But since now I'm in the United States (that's another story that I want to share later) and most of the time I have nothing to do except working on weekdays and crawling the malls or sight seeing to some tourist site on weekend, I think this is the perfect time for me to upgrade. It was also because BlogEngine just released new version on Dec 22, 2007.
Upgrading from version 1.1directly to version 1.3 was very easy. Well, there were steps that needed to take, since I'm using the SQLBlogProvider instead of XML one and also the fact that I've added custom control in it, but it was flawless. For you who also have the same situation like me, maybe this steps can help you out (Thanks, to Al Nyveldt who provided SQL Script and instruction for upgrade)
- Upgrade the SQL Script from 1.1 to 1.2 first. This is necessary since 1.2 has added some new fields. Instruction and script can be found here
- Upgrade the SQL Script from 1.2 to 1.3. Again 1.3 has added fields. Instruction and script can be found here
- Replace all the 1.1 files with 1.3 files except the APP_DATA folder, because your post pics and users database are there.
- Change the web.config, 1.3 doesn't have SQLConfig anymore. SQL server credential has been move to web.config
- (optional, specific to this blog) Update some syntax in my template and also update some code in BlogService and BlogProvider, for recent comment with gravatar.
And, that's it. Everything only took me less than 1 hour. Now what I need to do is putting some post in it. A friend of mine commented that I done more on the engine than putting some posts.
Well he's right. I'm (or was) a developer, so ?