Announced today: the Microsoft Web Application Gallery. Combined with the WebPI 2.0 it's a single click experience for installing popular and free applications on IIS, where the tool takes care of all dependencies.

For example use this button to install the most recent (2.3) version of dasBlog:

More info @ScottHanselman.

In anticipation of a big announcement on Wednesday we decided to do an interim release of dasBlog 2.3.9074.18820. This is a service release containing only bugfixes. Until Wednesday you can get this release on the daily build page (scroll to the bottom) or on CodePlex, after Wednesday there is an additional distribution and installation method.

Yesterday dasBlog 2.2 (2.2.8279.16125) was released on CodePlex. This release adds OpenID for comments (and admin login), support for IIS 7 and support for custom 404 pages.

As always you can download the web- and the full install from CodePlex or get the source from repository.

Yesterday I moved this blog to IIS 7 in integrated mode on Windows 2008 and the fact that you can still read this shows it worked without a problem. This is Scott Hanselman’s guide for the migration, but the only thing you’ll have to change is the httpmodule- and httphandler mapping in the web.config, which is something the “appcmd.exe” tool can do for you (the errorpage when running your site with the old web.config shows you how).

Yesterday the official build for dasBlog 2.0 was released.

Biggest improvements are the move to .NET 2.0 and the ability to run in Medium trust. For more information about: upgrading, getting help and medium trust, see Scott Hanselman's blog.

You can use the BlogML importer to migrate any blogengine, which supports BlogML, to dasBlog.

With the release of dasBlog 2.0 very close, I updated my dasBlog importer for BlogML files. You can now specify the source and destination of the import and export, instead of having to make changes in the sourcecode.

The actual code to import and export the content is not changed since the previous release. Use at your own risk and always make a backup.

[update:] Replaced the zip with a new version using the final dasBlog 2.0 binaries.

I posted a new build of the 1.9 branch of das blog to the daily builds location at http://www.paulvanbrenk.com/blog/bits. 

The following fixes were added by John Forsythe from the 2.0 branch:

1. Removed Scott's custom "make money from blogging" project from the Solution :)
2. Added Pauls "#" category fix and updated the assembly version + copyright date (rev 683)
3. removed the root AjaxDelegate.js and md5.js references from the newtelligence.DasBlog.Web.csproj after they were moved to /scripts subfolder 

If you want to make a contribution check out this article by Scott Hanselman, about contributing a patch to dasBlog.

"Always-fresh" releass of dasBlog are available from http://www.paulvanbrenk.com/blog/bits. These builds are made from the subversion head hourly. The current move to .NET 2.0 means the tree is in heavy development, so these may not be the most stable, but are the most recent.

If you want to make a contribution check out this article by Scott Hanselman, about contributing a patch to dasBlog.

Read about this release at Scott Hanselman's Computer Zen and download the new version of dasBlog.

Highlights:

• Fixed a metric buttload of bugs
• Category and Home Page Paging Macros
• Windows Live Writer Custom Integration
• Support for Blogging directly from Word 2007
• DHTML Timeline of Posts from the MIT Simile project

Thanks to everybody supporting the project...

Omar Shahine, Clemens Vasters, Tom Watts, Ken Hughes, Paul Van Brenk, John Forsythe, Nick Schweitzer, Kenneth Lefebvre, Ben Scheirman, Tim Sherrill, Alexander Gross, James Snape, Raymond Llewellyn, Tony Bunce, Josh Flanagan, Aaron Fischer, Anthony Bouch, Ayende Rahien, Ben Taylor, George V. Reilly, Greg Hughes, Mike Schinkel, Marc Mercuri, Rajiv Popat, Tim Sherrill

...and the many patch contributors!

Testing the latest build for the final .net 1.1 relase of dasBlog.

Get your copy at http://www.paulvanbrenk.com/blog/bits