Creating a blog with the BlogEngine.NET it’s very easy. I only spend 2 hours to setup this blog. I will explain how to install, modify and use it in very simple steps.

First thing you have to do, is to get all requirements needed:

1.       Microsoft Visual Web Developer 2005 Express Edition (free) or Visual Studio 2005 Professional (used in examples)

2.       BlogEngine.NET 1.1 source code

3.       An ASP.NET 2.0 webhost

4.       An Ftp client

With the source code you have the advantage to modify some parts of the blog, but it could be very hard or you can get a very different branch of the original blog, then when new versions appear you will have an extra difficulty to modify again the code to maintain your previous modifications.

Figure 1: Opening the project file in visual studio 2005

Now to verify that everything is all right you can rebuild the entire solution and test it locally with the Visual Studio.

Figure 2: Rebuilding the entire solution

Ok, If you could run and test the blog locally you probably are capable to install the blog online in the ASP.NET 2.0 server, but you have to do a little tweak first:

In the Web.Config file you have to modify the value <customErrors mode="RemoteOnly" /> to <customErrors mode="Off" />.

Figure 3: Modifying Web.Config file

TODO continued …