Yesterday I migrated my blog to a new server. In the process I decided it would be nice to upgrade to the new version (1.4.5). So I discovered a couple of things.

BlogEngine.Net does not support SQL Server 2000, yeah I now  it's a old version of SQL but this new server has it. Why? Well I try to keep all my stuff licensed when this server was setup SQL 2000 seemed like the right thing since the 2000 license are much less expensive. The down side is that nvarchar (max) is not supported, so you need to use NText, which was fine until many other statement are not supported either.

Then the right thing seemed to go back to XmlDataSource. Al Nyveldt offered a BlogEngine.NET Provider Migration. I needed to bend it a couple of way to use the new version to make it happen but I succeeded. So now I'm fully XML!

I had this blog for about a year now and I thought it was also time to change the style a bit. My good old Standard theme did seemed a bit doll after this time. So Today I embarked on the quest to change the palette. Mads Kristensen does pretty good job creating themes, which made my quest an easy job. I'm pretty happy with the result. For those that do not remember what it used to look like here's the screen shot:

Let me know what you think of this new style. I appreciate the comments.