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[Peter Morris]

Hi all

I want to move my blog away from blogspot.

<Rant part, skip if you don't care>
I find it annoying because

01: I have to enter a stupid code to post a new entry. Put it on comments,
sure, but on new blog entries too? If I were just spamming my own blog then
nobody would read it anyway!
02: I end up writing my blog in notepad, then HTML escaping it all, adding
<pre><code> to my code snippets, and &nbsp;&nbsp; in front of every indent.
Eventually pasting the html into the browser and posting.

Generally, I find it annoying!!!


<The question>
My host is an ASP.NET one, and I have access to a MS SQL Server DB on that
machine too. So, which blog engine should I go for?

 

[Peter Macej]

Just small info regarding your rant part. Microsoft did an excellent job
and created free Windows Live Writer
(http://windowslivewriter.spaces.live.com/). It's great tool which
removes all your troubles. It works with blogspot perfectly.

 

[Hillbilly]

There's no such thing as Microsoft Community Server, its actually a product
developed by others.

[...]
<The question>
My host is an ASP.NET one, and I have access to a MS SQL Server DB on
that machine too. So, which blog engine should I go for?

I am not qualified to answer that question, not having any relevant
breadth of experience in the matter. But, the msmvps.com web site uses
Microsoft's Community Server, and I find it mostly works well and is
reasonably feature-rich.

Pete