New Features and Improvements

• Included caching to reduce load times (see #33)
• Refactored and simplified pagination (see #34)
• Smaller cleanups and refactorings

This is the new 2.0 release. It brings a lot of new features and improvements

Features

• Comment section added. Based on giscus. See #30
• Components and images are lazy loaded when outside current view window. See #28

Improvements

• Uses .net 6 RC1 - which also made same smaller refactorings possible

Breaking changes

• .net 6 RC1 disabled long-pooling connection as fallback . If you deploy to Azure Web Apps make sure ARR-Affinity and WebSockets are enabled. More information here and here

This is the second preview for the upcoming 2.0 release

New Features

• Update .net 6 to rc1
• StorageProvider has to be defined via the appconfiguration (default: SqlServer)

Bug-Fixes

• Fixed a bug where RavenDb Provider couldn't be used

This is the first release of the new 2.0 version.

Improvements

• Update to .net6 (preview 7)
• Performance Improvement
• Increased test coverage and smaller bug-fixes
• Removed Blazored.LocalStorage dependency and use LocalStorage from .NET

This release focuses on some bugfixes and smaller improvements

Bug-Fixes

• Fixes #24

Improvements

• Dashboard for Analytics responsive and working better on mobile
• More information displayed on the table including link to the blog post itself

New Features

• Analytics Platform implemented - You can now see how your blog was clicked

Migration

To migrate to the latest version (when using SQL database) please apply the following migration:

CREATE TABLE [dbo].[userrecords]
  (
     [id]                 [NVARCHAR](450) NOT NULL,
     [useridentifierhash] [INT] NOT NULL,
     [datetimeutcclicked] [DATETIME2](7) NOT NULL,
     [urlclicked]         [NVARCHAR](max) NULL,
     CONSTRAINT [PK_UserRecords] PRIMARY KEY CLUSTERED ( [id] ASC )
  ) 

New Features

• Experimental Slide-Show added

Improvements

• Removed some obsolete code / cleanup

New features

• About - Me Page (optional):
  • Short profile overview
  • Skill-Table to show the proficiency of a skill you have

Improvements

• Refactored better Repository pattern (now open type repository instead of one repository per type)
• Some CSS tweaks

Migration

To migrate the SQL database from an earlier version to v1.5:

CREATE TABLE [dbo].[Skills](
	[Id] [nvarchar](450) NOT NULL,
	[IconUrl] [nvarchar](max) NULL,
	[Name] [nvarchar](max) NULL,
	[Capability] [nvarchar](max) NULL,
	[ProficiencyLevel] [nvarchar](max) NULL,
	CONSTRAINT [PK_Skills] PRIMARY KEY CLUSTERED
	(
		[Id]
	)
)
GO

EXEC sp_rename 'dbo.Tag','Tags';
GO

New features:

• Option to not update publish date when updating blog posts
• Navbar now responsive and collapses on mobile

Improvements:

• Started using color palette to have unified experience and enable theming
• Exchange library for setting SEO tags so that those tags are set while prerender
• Overall improvements in responsiveness and layout improvements

New Features

• New search input to let users search for specific blog posts (by title / tags at the moment)
• New DummyAuthentication for easier local testing and setup

Improvements

• More responsive design
  • On mobile blog posts use more space and therefore better readable
  • Font scales better with the width of the screen
  • Better transition effects
• Default assets changed
• Pagination size is configurable in appsettings.json

New Features

• Added Pagination (see #13)
• Admin Actions under one menu entry

Improvements

• Smaller SEO optimizations (Tags are used as keywords for meta attribute)
• Improvements in responsive design for Introduction Card
• Updated Packages

New Features

• Posts can be set to draft mode so that they don't have to be published directly
• Likes per Blogpost
• Way more test coverage
• Smaller adaptions of the UI and fixes

Known Limitations

• New fields for the SQL database were introduced and there is no migration available right now. To migrate from an existing SQL database, apply the following SQL script:

ALTER TABLE [dbo].[BlogPosts]
ADD 
    IsPublished BIT,
    Likes INT

UPDATE [dbo].[BlogPosts]
SET IsPublished = 1, Likes = 0

This is the initial release of the Blog.

Current Features:

• Create Blog Posts in Markdown
• Display Blog Posts (Markdown to HTML)
• Delete or Update Blog Posts
• Syntax Highlighting of C# code
• Some SEO optimizations
• Authorization via Auth0