Creating a Blog from scratch with ASP.NET MVC
Why "re-invent the wheel" when there are so many off-the-shelf solutions available? Many web sites offer a free blog service, and there are numerous open-source blog engines available to download. The explanation is simple. If it can be done in less than 60 minutes with ASP.NET MVC, why not try it?
Is one hour an exaggeration? Don't take my word for it; try it yourself. (An un-edited video showing the whole process will be posted later.) There may be some extra features that we would want to add to the basic blogging functionality. But it can all be done in about an hour, without rushing anything.
I created my blog as an experiment.
10 January 2009
Tags: asp.net mvc blog engine open source free tutorial blogmaster walkthrough weblog
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A colleague forwarded me a link to an outstanding blog post which resonates with the philosophy of this website. It also strikes a chord with my sense-of-humour, in a way that I suspect many experienced web developers will appreciate. A group of web enthusiasts who are more accustomed to working with traditional technologies like Ruby on Rails are currently evaluating ASP.NET MVC by building an open source test app and blogging about it:
where is this 1 hour video of how you made your blog please?
Hello Andy, thanks for your interest, and please accept my apologies for the delay. I'll embed the video on this page ASAP.
In the meantime, if you're looking for a good tutorial, I highly reccomend this ASP.NET MVC quick-start tutorial video. Follow this simple live demo and you'll have a basic web app up and running in less than 10 minutes. (It was this tutorial that inspired me to produce my own video.) I'm embedding the video in my next comment, below.
Alternatively, if you just want to get a blog up and running ASAP using ASP.NET MVC, I reccomend Oxite. If there's something about my website that you like, email me and let's talk in more detail -- I could always just send you the whole Visual Studio solution to give you an instant blog. I consider it open-source.
P.S. I had the raw AVI file (output from CamStudio) on an external hard drive drive, which broke. (Any computer I connect the storage device to now reports that the disc isn't formatted and prompts me to format it.). I need to perform a recovert for this and other temporary files I was storing on there. Admittedly, I hadn't made this video high priority because nobody has asked about it (until now).
Video: live demo tutorial, build your first ASP.NET MVC website in under 10 minutes