While BlogEngine.net(BE) has a nice feed import/export mechanism, I wanted complete control on my .Text blog data was pulled into BE.  Additionally, I wanted to be able to redirect my old .Text permalinks to the new guid driven BE permalinks.  This required that I add the integer post and category IDs from .Text into the BE database.  In order to accomplish all this, I wrote some TSQL to do the conversion.  Here it is:

.Text to BlogEngine.net SQL Script

I’ve spent the last few weeks evaluating some site upgrades.  My primary focus was getting my blog engine upgraded from an old version of .Text that I have been running for years.  So here it is!  I’m now running on BlogEngine.net version 1.5 and have customized it quite a bit to suite my needs.  Let me know what you think!