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.

[via: Coding Horror]

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.

The week number depends on 4 variables:

1. The date you're interested in,
2. The calendar you use (e.g. Gregorian, Julian, Hebrew etc.)
3. The first day of the week
4. The week you count as 1 (e.g. the week containing Jan 1, the first 4 day week etc.)

All these parameters are included in the Calendar.GetWeekOfYear method, as shown in the following code snippet:

// instantiate the calendar used in the Netherlands
Calendar calendar = new GregorianCalendar();

// get the current week for the Netherlands
calendar.GetWeekOfYear(DateTime.Now, CalendarWeekRule.FirstFourDayWeek, DayOfWeek.Monday);


// and for the USA
calendar.GetWeekOfYear(DateTime.Now, CalendarWeekRule.FirstDay, DayOfWeek.Sunday);

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

My current development reading list:

JavaScript: The Definitive Guide

Programming Windows, Fifth Edition

Debugging Microsoft .NET 2.0 Applications

Practical Common Lisp

Applications = Code + Markup: A Guide to the Microsoft Windows Presentation Foundation

Developing More-Secure Microsoft ASP.NET 2.0 Applications