If you are upgrading your BlogEngine from 1.4.5 to 1.5, you are bound to have read this post: http://www.nyveldt.com/blog/post/BlogEngineNET-15-Upgrade-Guide.aspx

At first I thought it’s going to be a very simple & smooth sailing process… perhaps I didn’t follow the steps properly. Anyway, here are some tips & tricks to ease your upgrading process.

1. Backup your site first!

2. Overwrite the new BE 1.5 files over the old ones

3. In doing so, some of the settings will be overwritten. For eg., About the author, users accounts, your settings, etc.

4. To restore the following, copy the following files from your backup & replace the new ones.

i) About the author - App_Data\datastore\widgets\1ef27b78-0218-420c-bfda-038163510def.xml

ii) Users accounts - App_Data\users.xml

iii) Categories – App_Data\categories.xml

iv) Settings – Do not copy as there are new things added. Open up in text editor and copy over your previous settings

v) Blog Roll – App_Data\blogroll.xml

5. As stated in Nyveldt’s article, there are some additions to the comments css. If you use your own custom theme, remember to add the additional css in so that the nested comments will look better

That’s it! Good luck ;)