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BlogX is getting no love right now, and I'm craving some new features and more polished blogging tool. The folks at newtelligence did an amazing job taking the BlogX code base and making dasBlog out of it.

Their goal was to completley replace the features found in Radio Userland, and IMHO they sucedded.

Migrating from BlogX to dasBlog was pretty painless but did require some work. I had to make the following changes:

1. Modify the dasBlog source code to handle the BlogX style PermaLink and Categories urls. You see, BlogX handles a permalik like so: http://www.shahine.com/omar/PermaLink.aspx/6258ada1-e5e6-4af8-a8c3-824abf472302 wheras dasBlog expects http://www.shahine.com/omar/PermaLink.aspx?guid=6258ada1-e5e6-4af8-a8c3-824abf472302 . So I added support for this to the dasBlog source tree. See this post for details. You'll need to enroll in the workspace and checkout the current source tree.
2. Move the contents of the /contents/ folder to your new dasBlog folder
3. Delete all your cookies. If you don't the BlogX cookie will mess with the dasBlog and you won't be able to login to your site
4. Configure the siteSecurity.config and site.config files

That's it.

PS - if you want a great, inexpensive ASP.NET host try http://www.gearhost.com. This is where I host my dasBlog site.