ASP.NET Weblog (Blog) Software: .Text

I just installed .Text, which is a free ASP.NET weblog (blog) tool available on GotDotNet. It took a little playing around, but I successfully got it up and running. .Text was very simple to install, aside from 2 pieces of information that are not mentioned in the installation walkthru.

If you choose to add a new user directly into SQL Server as opposed to using the dottexthelper console application, make sure you set the following flags:

Flag = 55 (no password hashing) or 63 (password hashing)
GroupID = 1

If you don't, the information will not be aggregated, even though you have set the field IsAggregated = 1 (true). What's happening is that the Flag is being manipulated bit-wise:

[Flags()]
public enum ConfigurationFlag
{
Empty = 0,
IsActive = 1,
IsAggregated = 2,
EnableServiceAccess = 4,
IsPasswordHashed = 8,
EnableComments = 16,
PublishAsNew = 32
};

As you can see, the total sum of above is 63. No password hashing is 63 - 8 = 55. You get the idea.

There is a help forum available for .TEXT if you try to install it and have any questions.

posted on Monday, February 09, 2004 11:02 AM

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