Virtual Realm

Blog Migration DasBlog to Community Server

Tuesday, October 17 2006

In the beginning I started using Community Server which was hosting my www.ircomm.net web site (Which is now Inactive). Then due to some unforeseen reasons I had to register a business and get a Domain to match, at that time I chose to go with Dot Net Nuke and DasBlog for my blog. Over the last few weeks since the release of the XNA Framework system I have returned to Community Server.

To complete the task I have started the migration of the content to the new www.virtualrealm.com.au site, this includes the article and blog content. To do this I was looking for an easy way to move the blog content over, what I found was BlogMl. In the first stages there was no tools that could be used for the conversion on CS 2.1 so I tried to integrate the 2.0 tools for BlogML... They sort of worked in the dev environment. But just before I was ready to move the tools for CS 2.1 were released.

The next stage was to get the content out of DasBlog. To do this I came across some other users who had attempted the move and got a copy of there tools, but this still only worked for BlogMl 1 and the CS tools where for BlogMl 2. In the end I recompiled the tools I had to convert the DasBlog Content directory and then used the XML Notepad to make the final changes to the XML Document.

For now most of the content has been migrated but I still need to go over the code and change the links... might jump into this over the weekend. If any one does want to talk more on what I did to convert the code drop me a line and I will try to help.