I was going to get crazy because of hundreds SPAM comments per week I was receiving on this blog. Literally ! So today I decided to install a SPAM blocking extension for BlogEngine.NET. I read about a few of them being available. Then I got aware that BE v2.0 RC was out and I thought to take the big jump !

I had a few problems because this website runs on VistaDB and it looks like support for that database was discontinued (bad choice !) so I had to try to manually upgrade my existing database which posed some little problems because of strange errors when using SQL Server upgrade code. VistaDB is supposed to be T-SQL compatible but maybe my version is a bit old and thus I had some troubles using the very same code. Anyway, after applying a few changes manually and compacting my database, everything was quite straightforward.

So now this blog runs BlogEngine.NET v2.0 RC which seems very neat and well-organized. I hope new features will pop out soon but as a general rule, BlogEngine.NET seems to be best blogging platform for .NET. And runs very quick on our VaiSulWeb shared hosting packages !