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Updated Wiki: Home

scriptstar — Sun, 02 Sep 2012 11:33:00 GMT

Welcome to KiGG

Announcements

KiGG 4.0 is work on progress. Will be a total revamp and there could be breaking changes :(. Sorry for this. But will try to provide migration guide once ready. Not sure when a public beta release will be ready yet.
KiGG 3.0 with MVC 2.0 RTM support on .Net 3.5 SP1-VS2008 released
KiGG 2.6 with MVC 2.0 RTM support demo is online on staging KiGG v2.6 Beta
KiGG code base is upgraded to ASP.Net MVC 2 RTM on .Net 3.5 SP1. Change set 38916
KiGG 2.5 Released Check it out
Documentation page now available -still topics under construction- but you can check the initial Deployment Guide Part 1 for getting started.
For localization ideas and solution discussion followup on this thread

Project Description

KiGG is a Web 2.0 style social news web application developed in Microsoft supported technologies.

Project Bio

MS Tooling:

ASP.NET MVC
Linq To SQL or Entity Framework
MS Patterns & Practices – Enterprise Library (Logging & Caching)
MS Patterns & Practices - Unity
jQuery

Databases

SQL Server 2005 & 2008 all editions
MySQL 5.x

Other Third party:

xUnit.net
Moq
HtmlAgilityPack
DotNetOpenId
jQuery UI & Markitup

External Service Integration:

PageGlimpse, WebSnapr - For thumbnail generation.
Akismet, TypePad and Defensio. - Spam Protection.
reCaptcha
Gravatar
OpenID & Id Selector
Url shrinking services (http://tinyurl.com & http://is.gd)

Open Standard implementation:

hAtom, hReview, hVote, xFolk etc.
OpenSearch
SiteMap (Standard, Mobile, News)
RSS/Atom

It demonstrates how to develop a very loosely coupled application with Microsoft tooling following the domain driven design.

See it in Action
DotNetShoutout.com
sharepoint community site
progg.ru
dotnetomaniak
PimpThisBlog

If you are planning/using this platform, we would really appreciate if you put the above logo in your site which link back to this page

Latest Updates

Kazi Manzur Rashid's Blog : DotNetShoutout News Feed

For Us By Us

Saturday, May 02, 2009 | From Kazi Manzur Rashid's Blog : DotNetShoutout

Script and CSS Management in ASP.NET MVC

Monday, April 27, 2009 | From Kazi Manzur Rashid's Blog : DotNetShoutout

AdRotator for ASP.NET MVC

Monday, April 20, 2009 | From Kazi Manzur Rashid's Blog : DotNetShoutout

KiGG is now upgraded to ASP.NET MVC RTM 1.0

Tuesday, April 07, 2009 | From Kazi Manzur Rashid's Blog : DotNetShoutout

Use Event Aggregator to make your application more extensible

Thursday, March 05, 2009 | From Kazi Manzur Rashid's Blog : DotNetShoutout

Kazi Manzur Rashid's Blog : DotNetShoutout News Feed

Follow us in Twitter

Updated Wiki: Home

mosessaur — Thu, 01 Sep 2011 15:16:09 GMT

Welcome to KiGG

Announcements

KiGG 4.0 is work on progress. Will be a total revamp and there could be breaking changes :(. Sorry for this. But will try to provide migration guide once ready. Not sure when a public beta release will be ready yet.
KiGG 3.0 with MVC 2.0 RTM support on .Net 3.5 SP1-VS2008 released
KiGG 2.6 with MVC 2.0 RTM support demo is online on staging KiGG v2.6 Beta
KiGG code base is upgraded to ASP.Net MVC 2 RTM on .Net 3.5 SP1. Change set 38916
KiGG 2.5 Released Check it out
Documentation page now available -still topics under construction- but you can check the initial Deployment Guide Part 1 for getting started.
For localization ideas and solution discussion followup on this thread

Project Description

KiGG is a Web 2.0 style social news web application developed in Microsoft supported technologies.

Project Bio

MS Tooling:

ASP.NET MVC
Linq To SQL or Entity Framework
MS Patterns & Practices – Enterprise Library (Logging & Caching)
MS Patterns & Practices - Unity
jQuery

Databases

SQL Server 2005 & 2008 all editions
MySQL 5.x

Other Third party:

xUnit.net
Moq
HtmlAgilityPack
DotNetOpenId
jQuery UI & Markitup

External Service Integration:

PageGlimpse, WebSnapr - For thumbnail generation.
Akismet, TypePad and Defensio. - Spam Protection.
reCaptcha
Gravatar
OpenID & Id Selector
Url shrinking services (http://tinyurl.com & http://is.gd)

Open Standard implementation:

hAtom, hReview, hVote, xFolk etc.
OpenSearch
SiteMap (Standard, Mobile, News)
RSS/Atom

It demonstrates how to develop a very loosely coupled application with Microsoft tooling following the domain driven design.

See it in Action
DotNetShoutout.com
progg.ru
dotnetomaniak
PimpThisBlog

If you are planning/using this platform, we would really appreciate if you put the above logo in your site which link back to this page

Latest Updates

Kazi Manzur Rashid's Blog : DotNetShoutout News Feed

For Us By Us

Saturday, May 02, 2009 | From Kazi Manzur Rashid's Blog : DotNetShoutout

Script and CSS Management in ASP.NET MVC

Monday, April 27, 2009 | From Kazi Manzur Rashid's Blog : DotNetShoutout

AdRotator for ASP.NET MVC

Monday, April 20, 2009 | From Kazi Manzur Rashid's Blog : DotNetShoutout

KiGG is now upgraded to ASP.NET MVC RTM 1.0

Tuesday, April 07, 2009 | From Kazi Manzur Rashid's Blog : DotNetShoutout

Use Event Aggregator to make your application more extensible

Thursday, March 05, 2009 | From Kazi Manzur Rashid's Blog : DotNetShoutout

Kazi Manzur Rashid's Blog : DotNetShoutout News Feed

Follow us in Twitter

Updated Wiki: Home

mosessaur — Thu, 14 Oct 2010 01:14:06 GMT

Welcome to KiGG

Announcements

KiGG 3.0 with MVC 2.0 RTM support on .Net 3.5 SP1-VS2008 released
KiGG 2.6 with MVC 2.0 RTM support demo is online on staging KiGG v2.6 Beta
KiGG code base is upgraded to ASP.Net MVC 2 RTM on .Net 3.5 SP1. Change set 38916
KiGG 2.5 Released Check it out
Documentation page now available -still topics under construction- but you can check the initial Deployment Guide Part 1 for getting started.
For localization ideas and solution discussion followup on this thread

Project Description

KiGG is a Web 2.0 style social news web application developed in Microsoft supported technologies.

Project Bio

MS Tooling:

ASP.NET MVC
Linq To SQL or Entity Framework
MS Patterns & Practices – Enterprise Library (Logging & Caching)
MS Patterns & Practices - Unity
jQuery

Databases

SQL Server 2005 & 2008 all editions
MySQL 5.x

Other Third party:

xUnit.net
Moq
HtmlAgilityPack
DotNetOpenId
jQuery UI & Markitup

External Service Integration:

PageGlimpse, WebSnapr - For thumbnail generation.
Akismet, TypePad and Defensio. - Spam Protection.
reCaptcha
Gravatar
OpenID & Id Selector
Url shrinking services (http://tinyurl.com & http://is.gd)

Open Standard implementation:

hAtom, hReview, hVote, xFolk etc.
OpenSearch
SiteMap (Standard, Mobile, News)
RSS/Atom

Kazi Manzur Rashid's Blog : DotNetShoutout News Feed

For Us By Us

02 May 2009 | From Kazi Manzur Rashid's Blog : DotNetShoutout

Script and CSS Management in ASP.NET MVC

27 April 2009 | From Kazi Manzur Rashid's Blog : DotNetShoutout

AdRotator for ASP.NET MVC

20 April 2009 | From Kazi Manzur Rashid's Blog : DotNetShoutout

KiGG is now upgraded to ASP.NET MVC RTM 1.0

07 April 2009 | From Kazi Manzur Rashid's Blog : DotNetShoutout

Use Event Aggregator to make your application more extensible

05 March 2009 | From Kazi Manzur Rashid's Blog : DotNetShoutout

Kazi Manzur Rashid's Blog : DotNetShoutout News Feed

Follow us in Twitter

New Comment on "Deployment Guide Part 1"

jah — Mon, 10 May 2010 18:05:04 GMT

I created a web site following the instructions above, but additionally needed to enable anonymous authentication on the site. Without it, when running the application I was getting a “Story does not exists” HttpException looking for login.aspx and a subsequent 404 on http://localhost:8081/login.aspx?ReturnUrl=%2f.

Updated Wiki: Home

mosessaur — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 15:08:24 GMT

Welcome to KiGG

Announcements

KiGG 2.6 with MVC 2.0 RTM support demo is online on staging KiGG v2.6 Beta
KiGG code base is upgraded to ASP.Net MVC 2 RTM on .Net 3.5 SP1. Change set 38916
KiGG 2.5 Released Check it out
Documentation page now available -still topics under construction- but you can check the initial Deployment Guide Part 1 for getting started.
For localization ideas and solution discussion followup on this thread

Project Description

KiGG is a Web 2.0 style social news web application developed in Microsoft supported technologies.

Project Bio

MS Tooling:

ASP.NET MVC
Linq To SQL or Entity Framework
MS Patterns & Practices – Enterprise Library (Logging & Caching)
MS Patterns & Practices - Unity
jQuery

Databases

SQL Server 2005 & 2008 all editions
MySQL 5.x

Other Third party:

xUnit.net
Moq
HtmlAgilityPack
DotNetOpenId
jQuery UI & Markitup

External Service Integration:

PageGlimpse, WebSnapr - For thumbnail generation.
Akismet, TypePad and Defensio. - Spam Protection.
reCaptcha
Gravatar
OpenID & Id Selector
Url shrinking services (http://tinyurl.com & http://is.gd)

Open Standard implementation:

hAtom, hReview, hVote, xFolk etc.
OpenSearch
SiteMap (Standard, Mobile, News)
RSS/Atom

Kazi Manzur Rashid's Blog : DotNetShoutout News Feed

For Us By Us

Saturday, May 02, 2009 | From Kazi Manzur Rashid's Blog : DotNetShoutout

Script and CSS Management in ASP.NET MVC

Monday, April 27, 2009 | From Kazi Manzur Rashid's Blog : DotNetShoutout

AdRotator for ASP.NET MVC

Monday, April 20, 2009 | From Kazi Manzur Rashid's Blog : DotNetShoutout

KiGG is now upgraded to ASP.NET MVC RTM 1.0

Tuesday, April 07, 2009 | From Kazi Manzur Rashid's Blog : DotNetShoutout

Use Event Aggregator to make your application more extensible

Thursday, March 05, 2009 | From Kazi Manzur Rashid's Blog : DotNetShoutout

Kazi Manzur Rashid's Blog : DotNetShoutout News Feed

Follow us in Twitter

Updated Wiki: Home

mosessaur — Sat, 27 Mar 2010 00:03:11 GMT

Welcome to KiGG

Announcements

KiGG code base is upgraded to ASP.Net MVC 2 RTM on .Net 3.5 SP1. Change set 38916
KiGG 2.5 Released Check it out
Documentation page now available -still topics under construction- but you can check the initial Deployment Guide Part 1 for getting started.
For localization ideas and solution discussion followup on this thread

Project Description

KiGG is a Web 2.0 style social news web application developed in Microsoft supported technologies.

Project Bio

MS Tooling:

ASP.NET MVC
Linq To SQL or Entity Framework
MS Patterns & Practices – Enterprise Library (Logging & Caching)
MS Patterns & Practices - Unity
jQuery

Databases

SQL Server 2005 & 2008 all editions
MySQL 5.x

Other Third party:

xUnit.net
Moq
HtmlAgilityPack
DotNetOpenId
jQuery UI & Markitup

External Service Integration:

PageGlimpse, WebSnapr - For thumbnail generation.
Akismet, TypePad and Defensio. - Spam Protection.
reCaptcha
Gravatar
OpenID & Id Selector
Url shrinking services (http://tinyurl.com & http://is.gd)

Open Standard implementation:

hAtom, hReview, hVote, xFolk etc.
OpenSearch
SiteMap (Standard, Mobile, News)
RSS/Atom

Kazi Manzur Rashid's Blog : DotNetShoutout News Feed

For Us By Us

02 May 2009 | From Kazi Manzur Rashid's Blog : DotNetShoutout

Script and CSS Management in ASP.NET MVC

27 April 2009 | From Kazi Manzur Rashid's Blog : DotNetShoutout

AdRotator for ASP.NET MVC

20 April 2009 | From Kazi Manzur Rashid's Blog : DotNetShoutout

KiGG is now upgraded to ASP.NET MVC RTM 1.0

07 April 2009 | From Kazi Manzur Rashid's Blog : DotNetShoutout

Use Event Aggregator to make your application more extensible

05 March 2009 | From Kazi Manzur Rashid's Blog : DotNetShoutout

Kazi Manzur Rashid's Blog : DotNetShoutout News Feed

Follow us in Twitter

New Comment on "KiGG Entity Framework Configuration"

zeroinfinity — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 08:10:20 GMT

DomainObjects.csdl (This file should be readonly and never be modified) DomainObjects.msl (this file should be readonly and never be modified) DomainObjects.ssdl (default SSDL that tagets SQL Server .Net Data Provider) DomainObjects.SqlServer.ssdl (SSDL that tagets SQL Server .Net Data Provider) DomainObjects.MySql.ssdl (SSDL that tagets MySQL .Net Data Provider "Connector\net" ) Which ones I need If I am using the SQL Server and if I make a change to the database, how I can generate these files and what is the name of the Entity name for the EF to generate. Which name are you using? If you can explain the process that would be great. Thank you so much.

Updated Wiki: Documentation

mosessaur — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 21:30:25 GMT

KiGG Documentation

This page is a documentation index for several sections and aspects of KiGG Project. Here you should find related documentation and guides for deployment and configuration of KiGG. Also you'll find related technical details about KiGG design and architecture. Some resources might link to external sites.

System Requirements

Deployment Server System Requirements

.Net Framework 3.5 SP1
ASP.NET MVC 1.0 RTM
Database (Only one option is required)
- SQL Server 2005 or later any Edition with Full-Text Search Services (Full-Text search is required for search)
- MySQL 5.x
IIS 6.0 or IIS 7.0 (didn't test it on Windows XP IIS 5.5)
Partial Trust is supported if outbound http requests are allowed. Kindly refer to "Medium trust level Problem"

Note: More into Partial trust will be provided in the documentation

Development Workstation System Requirements

Visual Studio.Net 2008 any edition with SP1 (Express Editions should work)
.Net Framework 3.5 SP1
ASP.NET MVC 1.0 RTM
Included reference libraries (xUnit, Moq, DotNetOpenAuth, Enterprise Library etc...) -available with source code download-
Database (Only one option is required)
- SQL Server 2005 or later any Edition with Full-Text Search Services (Full-Text search is required for search)
- MySQL 5.x
IIS 6.0 or IIS 7.0 (didn't test it on Windows XP IIS 5.5)

Deployment Guide

Deployment Guide Part 1. This part covers the following:
- Database creation
- KiGG configuration to use Entity Framework or LINQ to SQL
- KiGG database connection String configuration
- KiGG default -initial- users configuration (automated initial users creation)
Deployment Guide Part 2. This part covers the following:
- Partial trust support (issues and solutions)
- KiGG Configuration Settings. This covers how to set few global KiGG settings/properties such as Site Title, Meta keywords/description, admin/support emails etc...
Deployment Guide Part 3. This part covers the following: UNDER CONSTRUCTION
- Setting up external services such as reCAPTCHA, ping services, twitter integration, PageGlimpse or WebSnapr web thumbnail services etc.....

Entity Framework Detailed Configuration

KiGG Entity Framework Configuratio. This section has detailed information about how to configure KiGG Entity Framework repositories.
Configuring KiGG to use MySQL Database through Entity Framework. How to configure KiGG to use MySQL Database using Entity Framework.

Updated Wiki: Deployment Guide Part 2

mosessaur — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 20:43:26 GMT

KiGG Deployment Guide Part 2

Introduction

In this part of deployment guide I'll go through how to use KiGG under partial trust security policy, what are the issues and suggested resolutions. Also we will look at how to do basic configuration for KiGG. That should include defining default site title, admin/support email addresses, meta keywords and description, number of stories to be shown per page etc... So basically this part will cover

Partial trust support in KiGG
Basic KiGG Configuration Settings

KiGG Partial Trust Support

Partial trust environments are those environments that run under trust level Low, Minimal, Medium or High, most important it is not a Full Trust environment. There is a good old article about How To: Use Medium Trust in ASP.NET 2.0. This article also applies here.

Generally when we choose to run applications under partial trust policy we usually pick Medium trust level and above which include High trust level. KiGG supports High trust level with no modifications. But for Medium trust a modification is required to enable HTTP outbound traffics; so WebPermission should be modified to allow outbound http and https traffic. This requirements due to the use of DotNetOpenAuth assembly which require this permission. You can refer to this thread Medium trust level Problem for more discussion details about this subject.

Modify WebPermission to enable HTTP outbound traffics

This is applicable on local development machines and dedicated web hosting. Shared hosting such as GoDaddy has this configuration made as well.
To apply this modification you should do the following:

Go to %windir\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727\CONFIG folder. or %windir\Microsoft.NET\Frameworkx64\v2.0.50727\CONFIG -for x64 systems-
Under this folder you'll find "web_mediumtrust.config". Take a backup from it then open it to modify it.
Find the following WebPermission settings and change it:

<!--Before-->
<IPermission class="WebPermission" version="1" Unrestricted="true">
  <ConnectAccess>
    <URI uri="$OriginHost$"/>
  </ConnectAccess>
</IPermission>

<!--After-->
<IPermission class="WebPermission" version="1" Unrestricted="true"/>

Partial trust issue with Entity Framework

At the time of writing this my .Net framework 3.5 SP1 is up-to-date with latest August updates to Visual Studio.Net 2008 SP1. I am mentioning this because I will highlight an issue with Entity Framework with partial trust that doesn't exist before this update. This issue is only with Entity Framework, if you choose to work with LINQ to SQL then there is no issue.

The issue is now Entity Framework require SecurityPermission with UnmanagedCode flag. That wasn't the case on last June/July 09. Because I tested it and it was working fine. I guess there were some security update applied that causes this issue to take place. And so partial trust support might not be supported if you have (or your shared hosting have) recent updates of post .Net Framework 3.5 SP1 applied.

Anyway, I've included another partial trust configuration that has UnmanagedCode flag set for SecurityPermission you can download the file web_mediumtrust_UnmanagedCode.config.

<!--Before-->
<IPermission class="SecurityPermission" version="1" Flags="Assertion, Execution, ControlThread, ControlPrincipal, RemotingConfiguration"/>

<!--After-->
<IPermission class="SecurityPermission" version="1" Flags="Assertion, Execution, ControlThread, ControlPrincipal, RemotingConfiguration, UnmanagedCode"/>

Overview of KiGG Configuration Settings

What is meant by KiGG Configuration Settings here is the settings defined for IConfigurationSettings type in unity configuration. These settings are identical in both files "unity.ef.config" & "unity.l2s.config".The following snippet shows settings with default values.

<type type="IConfigurationSettings" mapTo="ConfigurationSettings">
  <lifetime type="Singleton"/>
  <typeConfig extensionType="Microsoft.Practices.Unity.Configuration.TypeInjectionElement, Microsoft.Practices.Unity.Configuration">
    <property name="RootUrl" propertyType="System.String">
      <value type="System.String" value="http://localhost:PortNumber"/>
    </property>
    <property name="WebmasterEmail" propertyType="System.String">
      <value type="System.String" value="admin@YOUR-DOMAIN.com"/> 
    </property>
    <property name="SupportEmail" propertyType="System.String">
      <value type="System.String" value="support@YOUR-DOMAIN.com"/>
    </property>
    <property name="DefaultEmailOfOpenIdUser" propertyType="System.String">
      <value type="System.String" value="openiduser@YOUR-DOMAIN.com"/>
    </property>
    <property name="SiteTitle" propertyType="System.String">
      <value type="System.String" value="YOUR-SITE-TITLE"/>
    </property>
    <property name="MetaKeywords" propertyType="System.String">
      <value type="System.String" value="YOUR-META-KEYWORDS"/>
    </property>
    <property name="MetaDescription" propertyType="System.String">
      <value type="System.String" value="YOUR-META-DESCRIPTION"/>
    </property>
    <property name="TopTags" propertyType="System.Int32">
      <value type="System.Int32" value="50"/>
    </property>
    <property name="HtmlStoryPerPage" propertyType="System.Int32">
      <value type="System.Int32" value="20"/>
    </property>
    <property name="FeedStoryPerPage" propertyType="System.Int32">
      <value type="System.Int32" value="25"/>
    </property>
    <property name="CarouselStoryCount" propertyType="System.Int32">
      <value type="System.Int32" value="5"/>
    </property>
    <property name="HtmlUserPerPage" propertyType="System.Int32">
      <value type="System.Int32" value="20"/>
    </property>
    <property name="TopUsers" propertyType="System.Int32">
      <value type="System.Int32" value="20"/>
    </property>
    <property name="AutoDiscoverContent" propertyType="System.Boolean">
      <value type="System.Boolean" value="true"/>
    </property>
    <property name="SendPing" propertyType="System.Boolean">
      <value type="System.Boolean" value="true"/>
    </property>
    <property name="PromoteText" propertyType="System.String">
      <value type="System.String" value="Shout it"/>
    </property>
    <property name="DemoteText" propertyType="System.String">
      <value type="System.String" value="Mute it"/>
    </property>
    <property name="CountText" propertyType="System.String">
      <value type="System.String" value="shouts"/>
    </property>
    <!-- 4 Hours-->
    <property name="MinimumAgeOfStoryInHoursToPublish" propertyType="System.Single">
      <value type="System.Single" value="4"/>
    </property>
    <!-- 10 Days-->
    <property name="MaximumAgeOfStoryInHoursToPublish" propertyType="System.Single">
      <value type="System.Single" value="240"/>
    </property>
    <property name="AllowPossibleSpamStorySubmit" propertyType="System.Boolean">
      <value type="System.Boolean" value="true"/>
    </property>
    <property name="SendMailWhenPossibleSpamStorySubmitted" propertyType="System.Boolean">
      <value type="System.Boolean" value="true"/>
    </property>
    <property name="AllowPossibleSpamCommentSubmit" propertyType="System.Boolean">
      <value type="System.Boolean" value="true"/>
    </property>
    <property name="SendMailWhenPossibleSpamCommentSubmitted" propertyType="System.Boolean">
      <value type="System.Boolean" value="true"/>
    </property>
    <property name="PublishedStoriesFeedBurnerUrl" propertyType="System.String">
      <value type="System.String" value="http://feeds.feedburner.com/YOUR-DOMAIN-Published"/>
    </property>
    <property name="UpcomingStoriesFeedBurnerUrl" propertyType="System.String">
      <value type="System.String" value="http://feeds.feedburner.com/YOUR-DOMAIN-Upcoming"/>
    </property>
    <property name="MaximumUserScoreToShowCaptcha" propertyType="System.Decimal">
      <value type="System.Decimal" value="25.0"/>
    </property>
    <property name="StorySumittedThresholdOfUserToSpamCheck" propertyType="System.Int32">
      <value type="System.Int32" value="5"/>
    </property>
  </typeConfig>
</type>

Below we are going to explore each property of the above settings so that you should be able to define the proper value for each one.

KiGG Configuration Settings Properties

RootUrl: This should be the URL of your website. If you are running KiGG locally this could be "http://localhost:8081" or if you install it in a virtual directory it should be "http://localhost/KiGG" with no "/" at the end.
WebmasterEmail: E-mail of site administrator/webmaster. Below are cases where this e-mail is uses as a sender of all e-mails such registration information email, password reset, comment subscription notification etc...
SupportEmail: E-mail of site support. This e-mail is used as primary receiver of specific e-mails such as possible spam notification for stories or comments and feedback emails sent from site feedback form.
DefaultEmailOfOpenIdUser: Because e-mail is mandatory field, and because some OpenID providers do not return e-mail as part of the response upon authentication. This e-mail is used as default e-mail for OpenID users who have no e-mail specified. Kind of dummy or placeholder.
SiteTitle: Website title. The title might be composed as the following "{SiteTitle}-Latest published stories", "{SiteTitle}-Upcoming stories". Which means its more like site title prefix or main site title. The other parts are currently hardcoded inside the kigg.web.dll assembly.
MetaKeywords: Site keywords coma separated that will be use as website meta keywords. Will construct the content attribute of <meta name="keywords" content="MetaKeywords"/>
MetaDescription: Site description that will be used as website meta description.Will construct the content attribute of <meta name="description" content="MetaDescription"/>
TopTags: Total number of tags to be displayed in popular (top) tags could area.
HtmlStoryPerPage: Total number of stories to be display per page. This is applied to all pages such as latest published stories and upcoming stories pages.
FeedStoryPerPage: Total number of stories to be display on feed page.
CarouselStoryCount: Not yet impelemented or used.
HtmlUserPerPage: Total number of users to be displayed per page. Used in users page that is used to display list of all users paged.
TopUsers: This is different than HtmlUserPerPage property. This property is about total number of top users to be displayed on leaders board area for both top daily movers and top leaders.
AutoDiscoverContent: This a boolean (true/false) property. Used to specify whether to discover story content upon story submission or not.
SendPing: This is a boolean (true,false) property. Used to specify whether to send ping to configured ping servers or not.
PromoteText: Text to be used as label of promoting button/link. Like in dotnetshoutout.com it is "Shout It", it can be anything else such as "Kick it!" or "Burn it!" etc...
DemoteText: Text to be used as label demoting button/link. In dotnetshoutout.com it is "Mute It", it can be anything else such as "Destroy it!" or "Sink It!" :o) etc...
CountText: Text to be used as label beside the number of promotions. In dotnetshoutout.com it is "Shouts", it can be anything else like "Kicks" or "Burns" etc...
MinimumAgeOfStoryInHoursToPublish: This is a number that represents the minimum story age in hours that is required before considering publishing is to a front page. So if the value is "4" that means stories of age less than 4 hours shouldn't be published to front page.
MaximumAgeOfStoryInHoursToPublish: This is a number that represents the maximum story age hours to be considered as publishable story on front page. So if the value is "240" that means stories of age greater than 10 days shouldn't be published to front page.
AllowPossibleSpamStorySubmit: This is a boolean (true/false) property. Used to specify whether possible spam stories to be submitted or not. Possible spams are not necessary be actual spams.
SendMailWhenPossibleSpamStorySubmitted: This is a boolean (true/false) property. Used to specify whether to send an e-mail to support if possible spam story submitted. This is good for moderation and monitoring. Recommended value "true" if the above property AllowPossibleSpamStorySubmit is stet to "true".
AllowPossibleSpamCommentSubmit: This is a boolean (true/false) property. Used to specify whether to allow possible spam comments to be submitted on stories or not. Possible spams are not necessary be actual spams.
SendMailWhenPossibleSpamCommentSubmitted: This is a boolean (true/false) property. Used to specify whether to send an e-mail to support if possible spam comment submitted. This is good for moderation and monitoring. Recommended value "true" if the above property AllowPossibleSpamCommentSubmit is stet to "true".
PublishedStoriesFeedBurnerUrl: Feedburner URL for published stories. When you subscribe to feedburner and provide your actual published feed url e.g."http://yourkiggsite.com/Feed/rss/Published" Feedburner will provide you with custom feed url. For more information visit http://feedburner.google.com. If no value specified original value will be used "http://yourkiggsite.com/Feed/rss/Published"
UpcomingStoriesFeedBurnerUrl: Feedburner URL for upcoming stories. This is different from the above URL, as each one has different original feed url. Upcoming feed is similar to this "http://yourkiggsite.come/Feed/rss/Upcoming". If no value specified original value will be used "http://yourkiggsite.com/Feed/rss/Upcoming"
MaximumUserScoreToShowCaptcha: This is a number value. Captcha is a way of spam protection to identify humans from robots. Each user has to verify the captcha by entering generated captcha verification code. The value provided in this property is to indicate that total score user should reach in order not to display captcha for him upon submitting story or comments. Trusted users don't require verification.
StorySumittedThresholdOfUserToSpamCheck: This is a number value. This is a threshold to start check for spam if the user reached this limit in short amount of time.

Updated Wiki: Deployment Guide Part 2

mosessaur — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 20:39:43 GMT

KiGG Deployment Guide Part 2

Introduction

Partial trust support in KiGG
Basic KiGG Configuration Settings

KiGG Partial Trust Support

Modify WebPermission to enable HTTP outbound traffics

This is applicable on local development machines and dedicated web hosting. Shared hosting such as GoDaddy has this configuration made as well.
To apply this modification you should do the following:

Go to %windir\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727\CONFIG folder. or %windir\Microsoft.NET\Frameworkx64\v2.0.50727\CONFIG -for x64 systems-
Under this folder you'll find "web_mediumtrust.config". Take a backup from it then open it to modify it.
Find the following WebPermission settings and change it:

<!--Before-->
<IPermission class="WebPermission" version="1" Unrestricted="true">
  <ConnectAccess>
    <URI uri="$OriginHost$"/>
  </ConnectAccess>
</IPermission>

<!--After-->
<IPermission class="WebPermission" version="1" Unrestricted="true"/>

Partial trust issue with Entity Framework

At the time of writing this my .Net framework 3.5 SP1 is up-to-date with latest August updates to Visual Studio.Net 2008 SP1. I am mentioning this because I will highlight an issue with Entity Framework with partial trust that doesn't exist before this update. This issue is only with Entity Framework, if you choose to work with LINQ to SQL then there is no issue.

The issue is now Entity Framework require _SecurityPermission_ with _UnmanagedCode_ flag. That wasn't the case on last June/July 09. Because I tested it and it was working fine. I guess there were some security update applied that causes this issue to take place. And so partial trust support might not be supported if you have (or your shared hosting have) recent updates of post .Net Framework 3.5 SP1 applied.

Anyway, I've included another partial trust configuration that has UnmanagedCode flag set for SecurityPermission you can download the file web_mediumtrust_UnmanagedCode.config.

<!--Before-->
<IPermission class="SecurityPermission" version="1" Flags="Assertion, Execution, ControlThread, ControlPrincipal, RemotingConfiguration"/>

<!--After-->
<IPermission class="SecurityPermission" version="1" Flags="Assertion, Execution, ControlThread, ControlPrincipal, RemotingConfiguration, UnmanagedCode"/>

Overview of KiGG Configuration Settings

<type type="IConfigurationSettings" mapTo="ConfigurationSettings">
  <lifetime type="Singleton"/>
  <typeConfig extensionType="Microsoft.Practices.Unity.Configuration.TypeInjectionElement, Microsoft.Practices.Unity.Configuration">
    <property name="RootUrl" propertyType="System.String">
      <value type="System.String" value="http://localhost:PortNumber"/>
    </property>
    <property name="WebmasterEmail" propertyType="System.String">
      <value type="System.String" value="admin@YOUR-DOMAIN.com"/> 
    </property>
    <property name="SupportEmail" propertyType="System.String">
      <value type="System.String" value="support@YOUR-DOMAIN.com"/>
    </property>
    <property name="DefaultEmailOfOpenIdUser" propertyType="System.String">
      <value type="System.String" value="openiduser@YOUR-DOMAIN.com"/>
    </property>
    <property name="SiteTitle" propertyType="System.String">
      <value type="System.String" value="YOUR-SITE-TITLE"/>
    </property>
    <property name="MetaKeywords" propertyType="System.String">
      <value type="System.String" value="YOUR-META-KEYWORDS"/>
    </property>
    <property name="MetaDescription" propertyType="System.String">
      <value type="System.String" value="YOUR-META-DESCRIPTION"/>
    </property>
    <property name="TopTags" propertyType="System.Int32">
      <value type="System.Int32" value="50"/>
    </property>
    <property name="HtmlStoryPerPage" propertyType="System.Int32">
      <value type="System.Int32" value="20"/>
    </property>
    <property name="FeedStoryPerPage" propertyType="System.Int32">
      <value type="System.Int32" value="25"/>
    </property>
    <property name="CarouselStoryCount" propertyType="System.Int32">
      <value type="System.Int32" value="5"/>
    </property>
    <property name="HtmlUserPerPage" propertyType="System.Int32">
      <value type="System.Int32" value="20"/>
    </property>
    <property name="TopUsers" propertyType="System.Int32">
      <value type="System.Int32" value="20"/>
    </property>
    <property name="AutoDiscoverContent" propertyType="System.Boolean">
      <value type="System.Boolean" value="true"/>
    </property>
    <property name="SendPing" propertyType="System.Boolean">
      <value type="System.Boolean" value="true"/>
    </property>
    <property name="PromoteText" propertyType="System.String">
      <value type="System.String" value="Shout it"/>
    </property>
    <property name="DemoteText" propertyType="System.String">
      <value type="System.String" value="Mute it"/>
    </property>
    <property name="CountText" propertyType="System.String">
      <value type="System.String" value="shouts"/>
    </property>
    <!-- 4 Hours-->
    <property name="MinimumAgeOfStoryInHoursToPublish" propertyType="System.Single">
      <value type="System.Single" value="4"/>
    </property>
    <!-- 10 Days-->
    <property name="MaximumAgeOfStoryInHoursToPublish" propertyType="System.Single">
      <value type="System.Single" value="240"/>
    </property>
    <property name="AllowPossibleSpamStorySubmit" propertyType="System.Boolean">
      <value type="System.Boolean" value="true"/>
    </property>
    <property name="SendMailWhenPossibleSpamStorySubmitted" propertyType="System.Boolean">
      <value type="System.Boolean" value="true"/>
    </property>
    <property name="AllowPossibleSpamCommentSubmit" propertyType="System.Boolean">
      <value type="System.Boolean" value="true"/>
    </property>
    <property name="SendMailWhenPossibleSpamCommentSubmitted" propertyType="System.Boolean">
      <value type="System.Boolean" value="true"/>
    </property>
    <property name="PublishedStoriesFeedBurnerUrl" propertyType="System.String">
      <value type="System.String" value="http://feeds.feedburner.com/YOUR-DOMAIN-Published"/>
    </property>
    <property name="UpcomingStoriesFeedBurnerUrl" propertyType="System.String">
      <value type="System.String" value="http://feeds.feedburner.com/YOUR-DOMAIN-Upcoming"/>
    </property>
    <property name="MaximumUserScoreToShowCaptcha" propertyType="System.Decimal">
      <value type="System.Decimal" value="25.0"/>
    </property>
    <property name="StorySumittedThresholdOfUserToSpamCheck" propertyType="System.Int32">
      <value type="System.Int32" value="5"/>
    </property>
  </typeConfig>
</type>

Below we are going to explore each property of the above settings so that you should be able to define the proper value for each one.

KiGG Configuration Settings Properties

RootUrl: This should be the URL of your website. If you are running KiGG locally this could be "http://localhost:8081" or if you install it in a virtual directory it should be "http://localhost/KiGG" with no "/" at the end.
WebmasterEmail: E-mail of site administrator/webmaster. Below are cases where this e-mail is uses as a sender of all e-mails such registration information email, password reset, comment subscription notification etc...
SupportEmail: E-mail of site support. This e-mail is used as primary receiver of specific e-mails such as possible spam notification for stories or comments and feedback emails sent from site feedback form.
DefaultEmailOfOpenIdUser: Because e-mail is mandatory field, and because some OpenID providers do not return e-mail as part of the response upon authentication. This e-mail is used as default e-mail for OpenID users who have no e-mail specified. Kind of dummy or placeholder.
SiteTitle: Website title. The title might be composed as the following "{SiteTitle}-Latest published stories", "{SiteTitle}-Upcoming stories". Which means its more like site title prefix or main site title. The other parts are currently hardcoded inside the kigg.web.dll assembly.
MetaKeywords: Site keywords coma separated that will be use as website meta keywords. Will construct the content attribute of <meta name="keywords" content="MetaKeywords"/>
MetaDescription: Site description that will be used as website meta description.Will construct the content attribute of <meta name="description" content="MetaDescription"/>
TopTags: Total number of tags to be displayed in popular (top) tags could area.
HtmlStoryPerPage: Total number of stories to be display per page. This is applied to all pages such as latest published stories and upcoming stories pages.
FeedStoryPerPage: Total number of stories to be display on feed page.
CarouselStoryCount: Not yet impelemented or used.
HtmlUserPerPage: Total number of users to be displayed per page. Used in users page that is used to display list of all users paged.
TopUsers: This is different than HtmlUserPerPage property. This property is about total number of top users to be displayed on leaders board area for both top daily movers and top leaders.
AutoDiscoverContent: This a boolean (true/false) property. Used to specify whether to discover story content upon story submission or not.
SendPing: This is a boolean (true,false) property. Used to specify whether to send ping to configured ping servers or not.
PromoteText: Text to be used as label of promoting button/link. Like in dotnetshoutout.com it is "Shout It", it can be anything else such as "Kick it!" or "Burn it!" etc...
DemoteText: Text to be used as label demoting button/link. In dotnetshoutout.com it is "Mute It", it can be anything else such as "Destroy it!" or "Sink It!" :o) etc...
CountText: Text to be used as label beside the number of promotions. In dotnetshoutout.com it is "Shouts", it can be anything else like "Kicks" or "Burns" etc...
MinimumAgeOfStoryInHoursToPublish: This is a number that represents the minimum story age in hours that is required before considering publishing is to a front page. So if the value is "4" that means stories of age less than 4 hours shouldn't be published to front page.
MaximumAgeOfStoryInHoursToPublish: This is a number that represents the maximum story age hours to be considered as publishable story on front page. So if the value is "240" that means stories of age greater than 10 days shouldn't be published to front page.
AllowPossibleSpamStorySubmit: This is a boolean (true/false) property. Used to specify whether possible spam stories to be submitted or not. Possible spams are not necessary be actual spams.
SendMailWhenPossibleSpamStorySubmitted: This is a boolean (true/false) property. Used to specify whether to send an e-mail to support if possible spam story submitted. This is good for moderation and monitoring. Recommended value "true" if the above property AllowPossibleSpamStorySubmit is stet to "true".
AllowPossibleSpamCommentSubmit: This is a boolean (true/false) property. Used to specify whether to allow possible spam comments to be submitted on stories or not. Possible spams are not necessary be actual spams.
SendMailWhenPossibleSpamCommentSubmitted: This is a boolean (true/false) property. Used to specify whether to send an e-mail to support if possible spam comment submitted. This is good for moderation and monitoring. Recommended value "true" if the above property AllowPossibleSpamCommentSubmit is stet to "true".
PublishedStoriesFeedBurnerUrl: Feedburner URL for published stories. When you subscribe to feedburner and provide your actual published feed url e.g."http://yourkiggsite.com/Feed/rss/Published" Feedburner will provide you with custom feed url. For more information visit http://feedburner.google.com. If no value specified original value will be used "http://yourkiggsite.com/Feed/rss/Published"
UpcomingStoriesFeedBurnerUrl: Feedburner URL for upcoming stories. This is different from the above URL, as each one has different original feed url. Upcoming feed is similar to this "http://yourkiggsite.come/Feed/rss/Upcoming". If no value specified original value will be used "http://yourkiggsite.com/Feed/rss/Upcoming"
MaximumUserScoreToShowCaptcha: This is a number value. Captcha is a way of spam protection to identify humans from robots. Each user has to verify the captcha by entering generated captcha verification code. The value provided in this property is to indicate that total score user should reach in order not to display captcha for him upon submitting story or comments. Trusted users don't require verification.
StorySumittedThresholdOfUserToSpamCheck: This is a number value. This is a threshold to start check for spam if the user reached this limit in short amount of time.

Updated Wiki: Deployment Guide Part 1

mosessaur — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 10:45:03 GMT

KiGG Deployment Guide Part 1

Updated Wiki: Documentation

mosessaur — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 23:46:24 GMT

KiGG Documentation

System Requirements

Deployment Server System Requirements

.Net Framework 3.5 SP1
ASP.NET MVC 1.0 RTM
Database (Only one option is required)
- SQL Server 2005 or later any Edition with Full-Text Search Services (Full-Text search is required for search)
- MySQL 5.x
IIS 6.0 or IIS 7.0 (didn't test it on Windows XP IIS 5.5)
Partial Trust is supported if outbound http requests are allowed. Kindly refer to "Medium trust level Problem"

Note: More into Partial trust will be provided in the documentation

Development Workstation System Requirements

Visual Studio.Net 2008 any edition with SP1 (Express Editions should work)
.Net Framework 3.5 SP1
ASP.NET MVC 1.0 RTM
Included reference libraries (xUnit, Moq, DotNetOpenAuth, Enterprise Library etc...) -available with source code download-
Database (Only one option is required)
- SQL Server 2005 or later any Edition with Full-Text Search Services (Full-Text search is required for search)
- MySQL 5.x
IIS 6.0 or IIS 7.0 (didn't test it on Windows XP IIS 5.5)

Deployment Guide

Deployment Guide Part 1. This part covers the following:
- Database creation
- KiGG configuration to use Entity Framework or LINQ to SQL
- KiGG database connection String configuration
- KiGG default -initial- users configuration (automated initial users creation)
Deployment Guide Part 2. This part covers the following:
- Partial trust support (issues and solutions) UNDER CONSTRUCTION
- KiGG Configuration Settings. This covers how to set few global KiGG settings/properties such as Site Title, Meta keywords/description, admin/support emails etc...
Deployment Guide Part 3. This part covers the following: UNDER CONSTRUCTION
- Setting up external services such as reCAPTCHA, ping services, twitter integration, PageGlimpse or WebSnapr web thumbnail services etc.....

Entity Framework Detailed Configuration

KiGG Entity Framework Configuratio. This section has detailed information about how to configure KiGG Entity Framework repositories.
Configuring KiGG to use MySQL Database through Entity Framework. How to configure KiGG to use MySQL Database using Entity Framework.

Updated Wiki: Deployment Guide Part 2

mosessaur — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 21:43:28 GMT

KiGG Deployment Guide Part 2

Introduction

In this part of deployment guide I'll go through how to do basic configuration for KiGG. That should include defining default site title, admin/support email addresses, meta keywords and description, number of stories to be shown per page etc... So basically this part will cover

Basic KiGG Configuration Settings

Overview of KiGG Configuration Settings

<type type="IConfigurationSettings" mapTo="ConfigurationSettings">
  <lifetime type="Singleton"/>
  <typeConfig extensionType="Microsoft.Practices.Unity.Configuration.TypeInjectionElement, Microsoft.Practices.Unity.Configuration">
    <property name="RootUrl" propertyType="System.String">
      <value type="System.String" value="http://localhost:PortNumber"/>
    </property>
    <property name="WebmasterEmail" propertyType="System.String">
      <value type="System.String" value="admin@YOUR-DOMAIN.com"/> 
    </property>
    <property name="SupportEmail" propertyType="System.String">
      <value type="System.String" value="support@YOUR-DOMAIN.com"/>
    </property>
    <property name="DefaultEmailOfOpenIdUser" propertyType="System.String">
      <value type="System.String" value="openiduser@YOUR-DOMAIN.com"/>
    </property>
    <property name="SiteTitle" propertyType="System.String">
      <value type="System.String" value="YOUR-SITE-TITLE"/>
    </property>
    <property name="MetaKeywords" propertyType="System.String">
      <value type="System.String" value="YOUR-META-KEYWORDS"/>
    </property>
    <property name="MetaDescription" propertyType="System.String">
      <value type="System.String" value="YOUR-META-DESCRIPTION"/>
    </property>
    <property name="TopTags" propertyType="System.Int32">
      <value type="System.Int32" value="50"/>
    </property>
    <property name="HtmlStoryPerPage" propertyType="System.Int32">
      <value type="System.Int32" value="20"/>
    </property>
    <property name="FeedStoryPerPage" propertyType="System.Int32">
      <value type="System.Int32" value="25"/>
    </property>
    <property name="CarouselStoryCount" propertyType="System.Int32">
      <value type="System.Int32" value="5"/>
    </property>
    <property name="HtmlUserPerPage" propertyType="System.Int32">
      <value type="System.Int32" value="20"/>
    </property>
    <property name="TopUsers" propertyType="System.Int32">
      <value type="System.Int32" value="20"/>
    </property>
    <property name="AutoDiscoverContent" propertyType="System.Boolean">
      <value type="System.Boolean" value="true"/>
    </property>
    <property name="SendPing" propertyType="System.Boolean">
      <value type="System.Boolean" value="true"/>
    </property>
    <property name="PromoteText" propertyType="System.String">
      <value type="System.String" value="Shout it"/>
    </property>
    <property name="DemoteText" propertyType="System.String">
      <value type="System.String" value="Mute it"/>
    </property>
    <property name="CountText" propertyType="System.String">
      <value type="System.String" value="shouts"/>
    </property>
    <!-- 4 Hours-->
    <property name="MinimumAgeOfStoryInHoursToPublish" propertyType="System.Single">
      <value type="System.Single" value="4"/>
    </property>
    <!-- 10 Days-->
    <property name="MaximumAgeOfStoryInHoursToPublish" propertyType="System.Single">
      <value type="System.Single" value="240"/>
    </property>
    <property name="AllowPossibleSpamStorySubmit" propertyType="System.Boolean">
      <value type="System.Boolean" value="true"/>
    </property>
    <property name="SendMailWhenPossibleSpamStorySubmitted" propertyType="System.Boolean">
      <value type="System.Boolean" value="true"/>
    </property>
    <property name="AllowPossibleSpamCommentSubmit" propertyType="System.Boolean">
      <value type="System.Boolean" value="true"/>
    </property>
    <property name="SendMailWhenPossibleSpamCommentSubmitted" propertyType="System.Boolean">
      <value type="System.Boolean" value="true"/>
    </property>
    <property name="PublishedStoriesFeedBurnerUrl" propertyType="System.String">
      <value type="System.String" value="http://feeds.feedburner.com/YOUR-DOMAIN-Published"/>
    </property>
    <property name="UpcomingStoriesFeedBurnerUrl" propertyType="System.String">
      <value type="System.String" value="http://feeds.feedburner.com/YOUR-DOMAIN-Upcoming"/>
    </property>
    <property name="MaximumUserScoreToShowCaptcha" propertyType="System.Decimal">
      <value type="System.Decimal" value="25.0"/>
    </property>
    <property name="StorySumittedThresholdOfUserToSpamCheck" propertyType="System.Int32">
      <value type="System.Int32" value="5"/>
    </property>
  </typeConfig>
</type>

Below we are going to explore each property of the above settings so that you should be able to define the proper value for each one.

KiGG Configuration Settings Properties

RootUrl: This should be the URL of your website. If you are running KiGG locally this could be "http://localhost:8081" or if you install it in a virtual directory it should be "http://localhost/KiGG" with no "/" at the end.
WebmasterEmail: E-mail of site administrator/webmaster. Below are cases where this e-mail is uses as a sender of all e-mails such registration information email, password reset, comment subscription notification etc...
SupportEmail: E-mail of site support. This e-mail is used as primary receiver of specific e-mails such as possible spam notification for stories or comments and feedback emails sent from site feedback form.
DefaultEmailOfOpenIdUser: Because e-mail is mandatory field, and because some OpenID providers do not return e-mail as part of the response upon authentication. This e-mail is used as default e-mail for OpenID users who have no e-mail specified. Kind of dummy or placeholder.
SiteTitle: Website title. The title might be composed as the following "{SiteTitle}-Latest published stories", "{SiteTitle}-Upcoming stories". Which means its more like site title prefix or main site title. The other parts are currently hardcoded inside the kigg.web.dll assembly.
MetaKeywords: Site keywords coma separated that will be use as website meta keywords. Will construct the content attribute of <meta name="keywords" content="MetaKeywords"/>
MetaDescription: Site description that will be used as website meta description.Will construct the content attribute of <meta name="description" content="MetaDescription"/>
TopTags: Total number of tags to be displayed in popular (top) tags could area.
HtmlStoryPerPage: Total number of stories to be display per page. This is applied to all pages such as latest published stories and upcoming stories pages.
FeedStoryPerPage: Total number of stories to be display on feed page.
CarouselStoryCount: Not yet impelemented or used.
HtmlUserPerPage: Total number of users to be displayed per page. Used in users page that is used to display list of all users paged.
TopUsers: This is different than HtmlUserPerPage property. This property is about total number of top users to be displayed on leaders board area for both top daily movers and top leaders.
AutoDiscoverContent: This a boolean (true/false) property. Used to specify whether to discover story content upon story submission or not.
SendPing: This is a boolean (true,false) property. Used to specify whether to send ping to configured ping servers or not.
PromoteText: Text to be used as label of promoting button/link. Like in dotnetshoutout.com it is "Shout It", it can be anything else such as "Kick it!" or "Burn it!" etc...
DemoteText: Text to be used as label demoting button/link. In dotnetshoutout.com it is "Mute It", it can be anything else such as "Destroy it!" or "Sink It!" :o) etc...
CountText: Text to be used as label beside the number of promotions. In dotnetshoutout.com it is "Shouts", it can be anything else like "Kicks" or "Burns" etc...
MinimumAgeOfStoryInHoursToPublish: This is a number that represents the minimum story age in hours that is required before considering publishing is to a front page. So if the value is "4" that means stories of age less than 4 hours shouldn't be published to front page.
MaximumAgeOfStoryInHoursToPublish: This is a number that represents the maximum story age hours to be considered as publishable story on front page. So if the value is "240" that means stories of age greater than 10 days shouldn't be published to front page.
AllowPossibleSpamStorySubmit: This is a boolean (true/false) property. Used to specify whether possible spam stories to be submitted or not. Possible spams are not necessary be actual spams.
SendMailWhenPossibleSpamStorySubmitted: This is a boolean (true/false) property. Used to specify whether to send an e-mail to support if possible spam story submitted. This is good for moderation and monitoring. Recommended value "true" if the above property AllowPossibleSpamStorySubmit is stet to "true".
AllowPossibleSpamCommentSubmit: This is a boolean (true/false) property. Used to specify whether to allow possible spam comments to be submitted on stories or not. Possible spams are not necessary be actual spams.
SendMailWhenPossibleSpamCommentSubmitted: This is a boolean (true/false) property. Used to specify whether to send an e-mail to support if possible spam comment submitted. This is good for moderation and monitoring. Recommended value "true" if the above property AllowPossibleSpamCommentSubmit is stet to "true".
PublishedStoriesFeedBurnerUrl: Feedburner URL for published stories. When you subscribe to feedburner and provide your actual published feed url e.g."http://yourkiggsite.com/Feed/rss/Published" Feedburner will provide you with custom feed url. For more information visit http://feedburner.google.com. If no value specified original value will be used "http://yourkiggsite.com/Feed/rss/Published"
UpcomingStoriesFeedBurnerUrl: Feedburner URL for upcoming stories. This is different from the above URL, as each one has different original feed url. Upcoming feed is similar to this "http://yourkiggsite.come/Feed/rss/Upcoming". If no value specified original value will be used "http://yourkiggsite.com/Feed/rss/Upcoming"
MaximumUserScoreToShowCaptcha: This is a number value. Captcha is a way of spam protection to identify humans from robots. Each user has to verify the captcha by entering generated captcha verification code. The value provided in this property is to indicate that total score user should reach in order not to display captcha for him upon submitting story or comments. Trusted users don't require verification.
StorySumittedThresholdOfUserToSpamCheck: This is a number value. This is a threshold to start check for spam if the user reached this limit in short amount of time.

Updated Wiki: Deployment Guide Part 2

mosessaur — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 21:18:08 GMT

KiGG Deployment Guide Part 2

Introduction

Basic KiGG Configuration Settings

Overview of KiGG Configuration Settings

<type type="IConfigurationSettings" mapTo="ConfigurationSettings">
  <lifetime type="Singleton"/>
  <typeConfig extensionType="Microsoft.Practices.Unity.Configuration.TypeInjectionElement, Microsoft.Practices.Unity.Configuration">
    <property name="RootUrl" propertyType="System.String">
      <value type="System.String" value="http://localhost:PortNumber"/>
    </property>
    <property name="WebmasterEmail" propertyType="System.String">
      <value type="System.String" value="admin@YOUR-DOMAIN.com"/> 
    </property>
    <property name="SupportEmail" propertyType="System.String">
      <value type="System.String" value="support@YOUR-DOMAIN.com"/>
    </property>
    <property name="DefaultEmailOfOpenIdUser" propertyType="System.String">
      <value type="System.String" value="openiduser@YOUR-DOMAIN.com"/>
    </property>
    <property name="SiteTitle" propertyType="System.String">
      <value type="System.String" value="YOUR-SITE-TITLE"/>
    </property>
    <property name="MetaKeywords" propertyType="System.String">
      <value type="System.String" value="YOUR-META-KEYWORDS"/>
    </property>
    <property name="MetaDescription" propertyType="System.String">
      <value type="System.String" value="YOUR-META-DESCRIPTION"/>
    </property>
    <property name="TopTags" propertyType="System.Int32">
      <value type="System.Int32" value="50"/>
    </property>
    <property name="HtmlStoryPerPage" propertyType="System.Int32">
      <value type="System.Int32" value="20"/>
    </property>
    <property name="FeedStoryPerPage" propertyType="System.Int32">
      <value type="System.Int32" value="25"/>
    </property>
    <property name="CarouselStoryCount" propertyType="System.Int32">
      <value type="System.Int32" value="5"/>
    </property>
    <property name="HtmlUserPerPage" propertyType="System.Int32">
      <value type="System.Int32" value="20"/>
    </property>
    <property name="TopUsers" propertyType="System.Int32">
      <value type="System.Int32" value="20"/>
    </property>
    <property name="AutoDiscoverContent" propertyType="System.Boolean">
      <value type="System.Boolean" value="true"/>
    </property>
    <property name="SendPing" propertyType="System.Boolean">
      <value type="System.Boolean" value="true"/>
    </property>
    <property name="PromoteText" propertyType="System.String">
      <value type="System.String" value="Shout it"/>
    </property>
    <property name="DemoteText" propertyType="System.String">
      <value type="System.String" value="Mute it"/>
    </property>
    <property name="CountText" propertyType="System.String">
      <value type="System.String" value="shouts"/>
    </property>
    <!-- 4 Hours-->
    <property name="MinimumAgeOfStoryInHoursToPublish" propertyType="System.Single">
      <value type="System.Single" value="4"/>
    </property>
    <!-- 10 Days-->
    <property name="MaximumAgeOfStoryInHoursToPublish" propertyType="System.Single">
      <value type="System.Single" value="240"/>
    </property>
    <property name="AllowPossibleSpamStorySubmit" propertyType="System.Boolean">
      <value type="System.Boolean" value="true"/>
    </property>
    <property name="SendMailWhenPossibleSpamStorySubmitted" propertyType="System.Boolean">
      <value type="System.Boolean" value="true"/>
    </property>
    <property name="AllowPossibleSpamCommentSubmit" propertyType="System.Boolean">
      <value type="System.Boolean" value="true"/>
    </property>
    <property name="SendMailWhenPossibleSpamCommentSubmitted" propertyType="System.Boolean">
      <value type="System.Boolean" value="true"/>
    </property>
    <property name="PublishedStoriesFeedBurnerUrl" propertyType="System.String">
      <value type="System.String" value="http://feeds.feedburner.com/YOUR-DOMAIN-Published"/>
    </property>
    <property name="UpcomingStoriesFeedBurnerUrl" propertyType="System.String">
      <value type="System.String" value="http://feeds.feedburner.com/YOUR-DOMAIN-Upcoming"/>
    </property>
    <property name="MaximumUserScoreToShowCaptcha" propertyType="System.Decimal">
      <value type="System.Decimal" value="25.0"/>
    </property>
    <property name="StorySumittedThresholdOfUserToSpamCheck" propertyType="System.Int32">
      <value type="System.Int32" value="5"/>
    </property>
  </typeConfig>
</type>

Below we are going to explore each property of the above settings so that you should be able to define the proper value for each one.

KiGG Configuration Settings Properties

RootUrl: This should be the URL of your website. If you are running KiGG locally this could be "http://localhost:8081" or if you install it in a virtual directory it should be "http://localhost/KiGG" with no "/" at the end.
WebmasterEmail: E-mail of site administrator/webmaster. Below are cases where this e-mail is uses as a sender of all e-mails such registration information email, password reset, comment subscription notification etc...
SupportEmail: E-mail of site support. This e-mail is used as primary receiver of specific e-mails such as possible spam notification for stories or comments and feedback emails sent from site feedback form.
DefaultEmailOfOpenIdUser: Because e-mail is mandatory field, and because some OpenID providers do not return e-mail as part of the response upon authentication. This e-mail is used as default e-mail for OpenID users who have no e-mail specified. Kind of dummy or placeholder.
SiteTitle: Website title. The title might be composed as the following "{SiteTitle}-Latest published stories", "{SiteTitle}-Upcoming stories". Which means its more like site title prefix or main site title. The other parts are currently hardcoded inside the kigg.web.dll assembly.
MetaKeywords: Site keywords coma separated that will be use as website meta keywords. Will construct the content attribute of <meta name="keywords" content="MetaKeywords"/>
MetaDescription: Site description that will be used as website meta description.Will construct the content attribute of <meta name="description" content="MetaDescription"/>
TopTags: Total number of tags to be displayed in popular (top) tags could area.
HtmlStoryPerPage: Total number of stories to be display per page. This is applied to all pages such as latest published stories and upcoming stories pages.
FeedStoryPerPage: Total number of stories to be display on feed page.
CarouselStoryCount: Not yet impelemented or used.
HtmlUserPerPage: Total number of users to be displayed per page. Used in users page that is used to display list of all users paged.
TopUsers: This is different than HtmlUserPerPage property. This property is about total number of top users to be displayed on leaders board area for both top daily movers and top leaders.
AutoDiscoverContent: This a boolean (true/false) property. Used to specify whether to discover story content upon story submission or not.
SendPing: This is a boolean (true,false) property. Used to specify whether to send ping to configured ping servers or not.
PromoteText: Text to be used as label of promoting button/link. Like in dotnetshoutout.com it is "Shout It", it can be anything else such as "Kick it!" or "Burn it!" etc...
DemoteText: Text to be used as label demoting button/link. In dotnetshoutout.com it is "Mute It", it can be anything else such as "Destroy it!" or "Sink It!" :o) etc...
CountText: Text to be used as label beside the number of promotions. In dotnetshoutout.com it is "Shouts", it can be anything else like "Kicks" or "Burns" etc...
MinimumAgeOfStoryInHoursToPublish: This is a number that represents the minimum story age in hours that is required before considering publishing is to a front page. So if the value is "4" that means stories of age less than 4 hours shouldn't be published to front page.
MaximumAgeOfStoryInHoursToPublish: This is a number that represents the maximum story age hours to be considered as publishable story on front page. So if the value is "240" that means stories of age greater than 10 days shouldn't be published to front page.
AllowPossibleSpamStorySubmit: This is a boolean (true/false) property. Used to specify whether possible spam stories to be submitted or not. Possible spams are not necessary be actual spams.
SendMailWhenPossibleSpamStorySubmitted: This is a boolean (true/false) property. Used to specify whether to send an e-mail to support if possible spam story submitted. This is good for moderation and monitoring. Recommended value "true" if the above property AllowPossibleSpamStorySubmit is stet to "true".
AllowPossibleSpamCommentSubmit: This is a boolean (true/false) property. Used to specify whether to allow possible spam comments to be submitted on stories or not. Possible spams are not necessary be actual spams.
SendMailWhenPossibleSpamCommentSubmitted: This is a boolean (true/false) property. Used to specify whether to send an e-mail to support if possible spam comment submitted. This is good for moderation and monitoring. Recommended value "true" if the above property AllowPossibleSpamCommentSubmit is stet to "true".
PublishedStoriesFeedBurnerUrl: Feedburner URL for published stories. When you subscribe to feedburner and provide your actual published feed url e.g."http://yourkiggsite.com/Feed/rss/Published" Feedburner will provide you with custom feed url. For more information visit http://feedburner.google.com
UpcomingStoriesFeedBurnerUrl: Feedburner URL for upcoming stories. This is different from the above URL, as each one has different original feed url. Upcoming feed is similar to this "http://yourkiggsite.come/Feed/rss/Upcoming"
MaximumUserScoreToShowCaptcha: This is a number value. Captcha is a way of spam protection to identify humans from robots. Each user has to verify the captcha by entering generated captcha verification code. The value provided in this property is to indicate that total score user should reach in order not to display captcha for him upon submitting story or comments. Trusted users don't require verification.
StorySumittedThresholdOfUserToSpamCheck: This is a number value. This is a threshold to start check for spam if the user reached this limit in short amount of time.

Updated Wiki: Home

mosessaur — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 11:58:35 GMT

Welcome to KiGG

Announcements

KiGG 2.5 Released Check it out
Documentation page now available -still topics under construction- but you can check the initial Deployment Guide Part 1 for getting started.
For localization ideas and solution discussion followup on this thread

Project Description

KiGG is a Web 2.0 style social news web application developed in Microsoft supported technologies.

Project Bio

MS Tooling:

ASP.NET MVC
Linq To SQL or Entity Framework
MS Patterns & Practices – Enterprise Library (Logging & Caching)
MS Patterns & Practices - Unity
jQuery

Databases

SQL Server 2005 & 2008 all editions
MySQL 5.x

Other Third party:

xUnit.net
Moq
HtmlAgilityPack
DotNetOpenId
jQuery UI & Markitup

External Service Integration:

PageGlimpse, WebSnapr - For thumbnail generation.
Akismet, TypePad and Defensio. - Spam Protection.
reCaptcha
Gravatar
OpenID & Id Selector
Url shrinking services (http://tinyurl.com & http://is.gd)

Open Standard implementation:

hAtom, hReview, hVote, xFolk etc.
OpenSearch
SiteMap (Standard, Mobile, News)
RSS/Atom

Kazi Manzur Rashid's Blog : DotNetShoutout News Feed

For Us By Us

Saturday, May 02, 2009 | From Kazi Manzur Rashid's Blog : DotNetShoutout

Script and CSS Management in ASP.NET MVC

Monday, April 27, 2009 | From Kazi Manzur Rashid's Blog : DotNetShoutout

AdRotator for ASP.NET MVC

Monday, April 20, 2009 | From Kazi Manzur Rashid's Blog : DotNetShoutout

KiGG is now upgraded to ASP.NET MVC RTM 1.0

Tuesday, April 07, 2009 | From Kazi Manzur Rashid's Blog : DotNetShoutout

Use Event Aggregator to make your application more extensible

Thursday, March 05, 2009 | From Kazi Manzur Rashid's Blog : DotNetShoutout

Kazi Manzur Rashid's Blog : DotNetShoutout News Feed

Follow us in Twitter

Updated Wiki: Deployment Guide Part 1

mosessaur — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 10:13:37 GMT

KiGG Deployment Guide Part 1

Introduction

Creating the database
Configuring KiGG to use Entity Framework or LINQ to SQL
Configuring KiGG Connection String
Configuring KiGG Default -initial- Users

Database installation for SQL Server

This section will show how to create a KiGG database on SQL Server based on KiGG database script available with the deployment package.

Physical database creation

Under "DatabaseScripts\SQLServer" folder you'll find a SQL script file "Create.sql". Open this file with your SQL Server Management Studio. By default this file will create a database with name KiGG. Feel free to change this name by editing the first line on the script "CREATE DATABASE [KiGG]". You'll just need to change "KiGG" to something else e.g. "KiGGCleanInstall"
Run the script by clicking on the execute button.

The above steps simply showed how to create a clean empty KiGG database on SQL Server 2005 or later.

Inserting pre-defined categories

Under DatabaseScripts\SQLServer"" folder open "Data.sql" file. This file contains the pre-defined categories. If you c hanged your database name on the above section, make sure to do that same on this file before your execute it. On first line "Use [KiGG]" you can change it to be "Use [YOUR DATABASE NAME]".
Run the script by clicking execute button.

The above steps showed how to create manually using T-SQL pre-defined categories. Feel free to change the fine according to your needs. This is definitely what everyone would do.

Creating KiGG virtual directory or Web Site under your IIS

Create a root folder under your "Inetpub", call it "KiGGRoot" for example.
Under your deployment package folder, copy the content of "Web" Folder -not the web folder itself- and paste it under the "KiGGRoot" folder we defined in step 1
Open your IIS Manager and create new Web Site, Specify the location of Content Directory to be your "KiGGRoot" folder created in step 1. Specify a port and that is it.

Basic KiGG Configurations

In this section we will see how to configure KiGG to use Entity Framework or LINQ to SQL as well as configuring KiGG databsae connection string name map it to EF or LINQ to SQL unity configuration.

Configuring KiGG to Entity Framework or LINQ to SQL

Open the web.config file and fine unity element.
If you wish to use Entity Framework make sure that the configSource attribute value is "unity.ef.config". But if you wish to go with LINQ to SQL then the value should be "unity.l2s.config".

Unity mapping for Entity Framework unity configuration. For detail deep information about this configuration read KiGG Entity Framework Configuration.

<unity configSource="unity.ef.config"/>

Unity mapping for LINQ to SQL unity configuration

<unity configSource="unity.l2s.config"/>

Configuring Connection String

Open the web.config file and fine connectionStrings element.
You'll find 2 entries under connectionStrings element. On for SQL Server with name "KiGGSqlServer" and the other with name "KiGGMySql". We are now only concerned with SQL Server connection string.
Modify KiGGSqlServer connection string entry value attribute. Your final results should be close to this:

<connectionStrings>
    <clear/>
    <add name="KiGGSqlServer"
         connectionString="Data Source=.;Database=KiGG;uid=YOURDATABASEUSERNAME;password=YOURDATABASEPASSWORD;"
         providerName="System.Data.SqlClient"/>
    <add name="KiGGMySql"
         connectionString="server=localhost;user id=root;password=Pa$$w0rd;persist security info=True;database=KiGG"
         providerName="MySql.Data.MySqlClient"/>
</connectionStrings>

Confirming connection string name in "unity.ef.config" (for entity framework) and "unity.l2s.config" (for LINQ to SQL)

Search for the following string "<type type="IConnectionString" mapTo="ConnectionString">" this is propably would be line 537 in the attached file to this Guide.
Make sure that the connection string name is specified for parameter "name" of the ConnectionString class. It should be something like the below:

<type type="IConnectionString" mapTo="ConnectionString">
  <lifetime type="Singleton"/>
  <typeConfig extensionType="Microsoft.Practices.Unity.Configuration.TypeInjectionElement, Microsoft.Practices.Unity.Configuration">
    <constructor>
      <param name="configuration" parameterType="IConfigurationManager">
        <dependency/>
      </param>
      <param name="_name_" parameterType="System.String">
        <value type="System.String" value="KiGGSqlServer"/> <!--Connection string name specified here-->
      </param>
      <param name="edmFilesPath" parameterType="System.String">
        <value type="System.String" value="|DataDirectory|"/>
      </param>
      <param name="ssdlFileName" parameterType="System.String">
        <value type="System.String" value="DomainObjects.SqlServer"/>
      </param>
    </constructor>
  </typeConfig>
</type>

Configuring KiGG default users

Search for "type="DefaultUser"". You'll fine 3 results by default for the 3 defualt users mentioned above
On each result you can change parapertes for UserName, Password, Email and Role. For example to change admin user password you can change Password parameter value. Below is sample configuration for default users

<type name="admin" type="DefaultUser"> <!--Configuration for Admin User -->
  <lifetime type="Singleton"/>
  <typeConfig 
extensionType="Microsoft.Practices.Unity.Configuration.TypeInjectionElement, Microsoft.Practices.Unity.Configuration">
    <property name="UserName" propertyType="System.String"> <!--UserName parameter -->
      <value type="System.String" value="admin"/>
    </property>
    <property name="Password" propertyType="System.String"> <!--Password parameter -->
      <value type="System.String" value="admin"/> <!--Change this value if you wish -->
    </property>
    <property name="Email" propertyType="System.String"> <!--Email parameter -->
      <value type="System.String" value="admin@YOUR-DOMAIN.com"/>
    </property>
    <property name="Role" propertyType="Roles"> <!--Role Parameter -->
      <value type="Roles" value="Administrator"/> <!--Role Possible Values are (Administrator, Moderator, Bot and User) -->
    </property>
  </typeConfig>
</type>
<type name="support" type="DefaultUser">
  <lifetime type="Singleton"/>
  <typeConfig 
extensionType="Microsoft.Practices.Unity.Configuration.TypeInjectionElement, Microsoft.Practices.Unity.Configuration">
    <property name="UserName" propertyType="System.String">
      <value type="System.String" value="support"/>
    </property>
    <property name="Password" propertyType="System.String">
      <value type="System.String" value="support"/>
    </property>
    <property name="Email" propertyType="System.String">
      <value type="System.String" value="support@YOUR-DOMAIN.com"/>
    </property>
    <property name="Role" propertyType="Roles">
      <value type="Roles" value="Moderator"/>
    </property>
  </typeConfig>
</type>
<type name="bee" type="DefaultUser">
  <lifetime type="Singleton"/>
  <typeConfig 
extensionType="Microsoft.Practices.Unity.Configuration.TypeInjectionElement, Microsoft.Practices.Unity.Configuration">
    <property name="UserName" propertyType="System.String">
      <value type="System.String" value="bee"/>
    </property>
    <property name="Password" propertyType="System.String">
      <value type="System.String" value="iambusy"/>
    </property>
    <property name="Email" propertyType="System.String">
      <value type="System.String" value="bee@YOUR-DOMAIN.com"/>
    </property>
    <property name="Role" propertyType="Roles">
      <value type="Roles" value="Bot"/>
    </property>
  </typeConfig>
</type>

If you wish to add new user just copy one of the above type sections, change type element name attribute and parameter values for UserName, Password, Email and Role, as the following

<type name="testUser" type="DefaultUser">
  <lifetime type="Singleton"/>
  <typeConfig 
extensionType="Microsoft.Practices.Unity.Configuration.TypeInjectionElement, Microsoft.Practices.Unity.Configuration">
    <property name="UserName" propertyType="System.String">
      <value type="System.String" value="testUser"/>
    </property>
    <property name="Password" propertyType="System.String">
      <value type="System.String" value="Pa$$w0rd"/>
    </property>
    <property name="Email" propertyType="System.String">
      <value type="System.String" value="testUser@YOUR-DOMAIN.com"/>
    </property>
    <property name="Role" propertyType="Roles">
      <value type="Roles" value="User"/>
    </property>
  </typeConfig>
</type>

Conclusion

Updated Wiki: Deployment Guide Part 2

mosessaur — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 00:56:03 GMT

KiGG Deployment Guide Part 2

Introduction

Basic KiGG Configuration Settings

Overview of KiGG Configuration Settings

<type type="IConfigurationSettings" mapTo="ConfigurationSettings">
  <lifetime type="Singleton"/>
  <typeConfig extensionType="Microsoft.Practices.Unity.Configuration.TypeInjectionElement, Microsoft.Practices.Unity.Configuration">
    <property name="RootUrl" propertyType="System.String">
      <value type="System.String" value="http://localhost:PortNumber"/>
    </property>
    <property name="WebmasterEmail" propertyType="System.String">
      <value type="System.String" value="admin@YOUR-DOMAIN.com"/> 
    </property>
    <property name="SupportEmail" propertyType="System.String">
      <value type="System.String" value="support@YOUR-DOMAIN.com"/>
    </property>
    <property name="DefaultEmailOfOpenIdUser" propertyType="System.String">
      <value type="System.String" value="openiduser@YOUR-DOMAIN.com"/>
    </property>
    <property name="SiteTitle" propertyType="System.String">
      <value type="System.String" value="YOUR-SITE-TITLE"/>
    </property>
    <property name="MetaKeywords" propertyType="System.String">
      <value type="System.String" value="YOUR-META-KEYWORDS"/>
    </property>
    <property name="MetaDescription" propertyType="System.String">
      <value type="System.String" value="YOUR-META-DESCRIPTION"/>
    </property>
    <property name="TopTags" propertyType="System.Int32">
      <value type="System.Int32" value="50"/>
    </property>
    <property name="HtmlStoryPerPage" propertyType="System.Int32">
      <value type="System.Int32" value="20"/>
    </property>
    <property name="FeedStoryPerPage" propertyType="System.Int32">
      <value type="System.Int32" value="25"/>
    </property>
    <property name="CarouselStoryCount" propertyType="System.Int32">
      <value type="System.Int32" value="5"/>
    </property>
    <property name="HtmlUserPerPage" propertyType="System.Int32">
      <value type="System.Int32" value="20"/>
    </property>
    <property name="TopUsers" propertyType="System.Int32">
      <value type="System.Int32" value="20"/>
    </property>
    <property name="AutoDiscoverContent" propertyType="System.Boolean">
      <value type="System.Boolean" value="true"/>
    </property>
    <property name="SendPing" propertyType="System.Boolean">
      <value type="System.Boolean" value="true"/>
    </property>
    <property name="PromoteText" propertyType="System.String">
      <value type="System.String" value="Shout it"/>
    </property>
    <property name="DemoteText" propertyType="System.String">
      <value type="System.String" value="Mute it"/>
    </property>
    <property name="CountText" propertyType="System.String">
      <value type="System.String" value="shouts"/>
    </property>
    <!-- 4 Hours-->
    <property name="MinimumAgeOfStoryInHoursToPublish" propertyType="System.Single">
      <value type="System.Single" value="4"/>
    </property>
    <!-- 10 Days-->
    <property name="MaximumAgeOfStoryInHoursToPublish" propertyType="System.Single">
      <value type="System.Single" value="240"/>
    </property>
    <property name="AllowPossibleSpamStorySubmit" propertyType="System.Boolean">
      <value type="System.Boolean" value="true"/>
    </property>
    <property name="SendMailWhenPossibleSpamStorySubmitted" propertyType="System.Boolean">
      <value type="System.Boolean" value="true"/>
    </property>
    <property name="AllowPossibleSpamCommentSubmit" propertyType="System.Boolean">
      <value type="System.Boolean" value="true"/>
    </property>
    <property name="SendMailWhenPossibleSpamCommentSubmitted" propertyType="System.Boolean">
      <value type="System.Boolean" value="true"/>
    </property>
    <property name="PublishedStoriesFeedBurnerUrl" propertyType="System.String">
      <value type="System.String" value="http://feeds.feedburner.com/YOUR-DOMAIN-Published"/>
    </property>
    <property name="UpcomingStoriesFeedBurnerUrl" propertyType="System.String">
      <value type="System.String" value="http://feeds.feedburner.com/YOUR-DOMAIN-Upcoming"/>
    </property>
    <property name="MaximumUserScoreToShowCaptcha" propertyType="System.Decimal">
      <value type="System.Decimal" value="25.0"/>
    </property>
    <property name="StorySumittedThresholdOfUserToSpamCheck" propertyType="System.Int32">
      <value type="System.Int32" value="5"/>
    </property>
  </typeConfig>
</type>

Below we are going to explore each property of the above settings so that you should be able to define the proper value for each one.

KiGG Configuration Settings Properties

RootUrl: This should be the URL of your website. If you are running KiGG locally this could be "http://localhost:8081" or if you install it in a virtual directory it should be "http://localhost/KiGG" with no "/" at the end.
WebmasterEmail: E-mail of site administrator/webmaster. Below are cases where this e-mail is uses as a sender of all e-mails such registration information email, password reset, comment subscription notification etc...
SupportEmail: E-mail of site support. This e-mail is used as primary receiver of specific e-mails such as possible spam notification for stories or comments and feedback emails sent from site feedback form.
DefaultEmailOfOpenIdUser: Because e-mail is mandatory field, and because some OpenID providers do not return e-mail as part of the response upon authentication. This e-mail is used as default e-mail for OpenID users who have no e-mail specified. Kind of dummy or placeholder.
SiteTitle: Website title. The title might be composed as the following "{SiteTitle}-Latest published stories", "{SiteTitle}-Upcoming stories". Which means its more like site title prefix or main site title. The other parts are currently hardcoded inside the kigg.web.dll assembly.
MetaKeywords: Site keywords coma separated that will be use as website meta keywords. Will construct the content attribute of <meta name="keywords" content="MetaKeywords"/>
MetaDescription: Site description that will be used as website meta description.Will construct the content attribute of <meta name="description" content="MetaDescription"/>
TopTags: Total number of tags to be displayed in popular (top) tags could area.
HtmlStoryPerPage: Total number of stories to be display per page. This is applied to all pages such as latest published stories and upcoming stories pages.
FeedStoryPerPage: Total number of stories to be display on feed page.
CarouselStoryCount: Not yet impelemented or used.
HtmlUserPerPage: Total number of users to be displayed per page. Used in users page that is used to display list of all users paged.
TopUsers: This is different than HtmlUserPerPage property. This property is about total number of top users to be displayed on leaders board area for both top daily movers and top leaders.
AutoDiscoverContent: This a boolean (true/false) porpety. Used to specify wheather to discover story content upon story submission or not.

Updated Wiki: Documentation

mosessaur — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 20:40:45 GMT

KiGG Documentation

System Requirements

Deployment Server System Requirements

.Net Framework 3.5 SP1
ASP.NET MVC 1.0 RTM
Database (Only one option is required)
- SQL Server 2005 or later any Edition with Full-Text Search Services (Full-Text search is required for search)
- MySQL 5.x
IIS 6.0 or IIS 7.0 (didn't test it on Windows XP IIS 5.5)
Partial Trust is supported if outbound http requests are allowed. Kindly refer to "Medium trust level Problem"

Note: More into Partial trust will be provided in the documentation

Development Workstation System Requirements

Visual Studio.Net 2008 any edition with SP1 (Express Editions should work)
.Net Framework 3.5 SP1
ASP.NET MVC 1.0 RTM
Included reference libraries (xUnit, Moq, DotNetOpenAuth, Enterprise Library etc...) -available with source code download-
Database (Only one option is required)
- SQL Server 2005 or later any Edition with Full-Text Search Services (Full-Text search is required for search)
- MySQL 5.x
IIS 6.0 or IIS 7.0 (didn't test it on Windows XP IIS 5.5)

Deployment Guide

Deployment Guide Part 1. This part covers the following:
- Database creation
- KiGG configuration to use Entity Framework or LINQ to SQL
- KiGG database connection String configuration
- KiGG default -initial- users configuration (automated initial users creation)
Deployment Guide Part 2 UNDER CONSTRUCTION

Entity Framework Detailed Configuration

KiGG Entity Framework Configuratio. This section has detailed information about how to configure KiGG Entity Framework repositories.
Configuring KiGG to use MySQL Database through Entity Framework. How to configure KiGG to use MySQL Database using Entity Framework.

Updated Wiki: Home

mosessaur — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 23:52:35 GMT

Welcome to KiGG

Announcements

KiGG 2.5 Released Check it out
Documentation page now available -still topics under construction- but you can check the initial Deployment Guide Part 1 for getting started.

Project Description

KiGG is a Web 2.0 style social news web application developed in Microsoft supported technologies.

Project Bio

MS Tooling:

ASP.NET MVC
Linq To SQL or Entity Framework
MS Patterns & Practices – Enterprise Library (Logging & Caching)
MS Patterns & Practices - Unity
jQuery

Databases

SQL Server 2005 & 2008 all editions
MySQL 5.x

Other Third party:

xUnit.net
Moq
HtmlAgilityPack
DotNetOpenId
jQuery UI & Markitup

External Service Integration:

PageGlimpse, WebSnapr - For thumbnail generation.
Akismet, TypePad and Defensio. - Spam Protection.
reCaptcha
Gravatar
OpenID & Id Selector
Url shrinking services (http://tinyurl.com & http://is.gd)

Open Standard implementation:

hAtom, hReview, hVote, xFolk etc.
OpenSearch
SiteMap (Standard, Mobile, News)
RSS/Atom

Kazi Manzur Rashid's Blog : DotNetShoutout News Feed

For Us By Us

Saturday, May 02, 2009 | From Kazi Manzur Rashid's Blog : DotNetShoutout

Script and CSS Management in ASP.NET MVC

Monday, April 27, 2009 | From Kazi Manzur Rashid's Blog : DotNetShoutout

AdRotator for ASP.NET MVC

Monday, April 20, 2009 | From Kazi Manzur Rashid's Blog : DotNetShoutout

KiGG is now upgraded to ASP.NET MVC RTM 1.0

Tuesday, April 07, 2009 | From Kazi Manzur Rashid's Blog : DotNetShoutout

Use Event Aggregator to make your application more extensible

Thursday, March 05, 2009 | From Kazi Manzur Rashid's Blog : DotNetShoutout

Kazi Manzur Rashid's Blog : DotNetShoutout News Feed

Follow us in Twitter

Updated Wiki: Deployment Guide Part 1

mosessaur — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 23:45:35 GMT

KiGG Deployment Guide Part 1

Introduction

Creating the database
Configuring KiGG to use Entity Framework or LINQ to SQL
Configuring KiGG Connection String
Configuring KiGG Default -initial- Users

Database installation for SQL Server

This section will show how to create a KiGG database on SQL Server based on KiGG database script available with the deployment package.

Physical database creation

Under "DatabaseScripts\SQLServer" folder you'll find a SQL script file "Create.sql". Open this file with your SQL Server Management Studio. By default this file will create a database with name KiGG. Feel free to change this name by editing the first line on the script "CREATE DATABASE [KiGG]". You'll just need to change "KiGG" to something else e.g. "KiGGCleanInstall"
Run the script by clicking on the execute button.

The above steps simply showed how to create a clean empty KiGG database on SQL Server 2005 or later.

Inserting pre-defined categories

Under DatabaseScripts\SQLServer"" folder open "Data.sql" file. This file contains the pre-defined categories. If you c hanged your database name on the above section, make sure to do that same on this file before your execute it. On first line "Use [KiGG]" you can change it to be "Use [YOUR DATABASE NAME]".
Run the script by clicking execute button.

The above steps showed how to create manually using T-SQL pre-defined categories. Feel free to change the fine according to your needs. This is definitely what everyone would do.

Creating KiGG virtual directory or Web Site under your IIS

Create a root folder under your "Inetpub", call it "KiGGRoot" for example.
Under your deployment package folder, copy the content of "Web" Folder -not the web folder itself- and paste it under the "KiGGRoot" folder we defined in step 1
Open your IIS Manager and create new Web Site, Specify the location of Content Directory to be your "KiGGRoot" folder created in step 1. Specify a port and that is it.

Basic KiGG Configurations

In this section we will see how to configure KiGG to use Entity Framework or LINQ to SQL as well as configuring KiGG databsae connection string name map it to EF or LINQ to SQL unity configuration.

Configuring KiGG to Entity Framework or LINQ to SQL

Open the web.config file and fine unity element.
If you wish to use Entity Framework make sure that the configSource attribute value is "unity.ef.config". But if you wish to go with LINQ to SQL then the value should be "unity.l2s.config".

Unity mapping for Entity Framework unity configuration. For detail deep information about this configuration read KiGG Entity Framework Configuration.

<unity configSource="unity.ef.config"/>

Unity mapping for LINQ to SQL unity configuration

<unity configSource="unity.l2s.config"/>

Configuring Connection String

Open the web.config file and fine connectionStrings element.
You'll find 2 entries under connectionStrings element. On for SQL Server with name "KiGGSqlServer" and the other with name "KiGGMySql". We are now only concerned with SQL Server connection string.
Modify KiGGSqlServer connection string entry value attribute. Your final results should be close to this:

<connectionStrings>
    <clear/>
    <add name="KiGGSqlServer"
         connectionString="Data Source=.;Database=KiGG;uid=YOURDATABASEUSERNAME;password=YOURDATABASEPASSWORD;MultipleActiveResultSets=false"
         providerName="System.Data.SqlClient"/>
    <add name="KiGGMySql"
         connectionString="server=localhost;user id=root;password=Pa$$w0rd;persist security info=True;database=KiGG"
         providerName="MySql.Data.MySqlClient"/>
</connectionStrings>

Confirming connection string name in "unity.ef.config" (for entity framework) and "unity.l2s.config" (for LINQ to SQL)

Search for the following string "<type type="IConnectionString" mapTo="ConnectionString">" this is propably would be line 537 in the attached file to this Guide.
Make sure that the connection string name is specified for parameter "name" of the ConnectionString class. It should be something like the below:

<type type="IConnectionString" mapTo="ConnectionString">
  <lifetime type="Singleton"/>
  <typeConfig extensionType="Microsoft.Practices.Unity.Configuration.TypeInjectionElement, Microsoft.Practices.Unity.Configuration">
    <constructor>
      <param name="configuration" parameterType="IConfigurationManager">
        <dependency/>
      </param>
      <param name="_name_" parameterType="System.String">
        <value type="System.String" value="KiGGSqlServer"/> <!--Connection string name specified here-->
      </param>
      <param name="edmFilesPath" parameterType="System.String">
        <value type="System.String" value="|DataDirectory|"/>
      </param>
      <param name="ssdlFileName" parameterType="System.String">
        <value type="System.String" value="DomainObjects.SqlServer"/>
      </param>
    </constructor>
  </typeConfig>
</type>

Configuring KiGG default users

Search for "type="DefaultUser"". You'll fine 3 results by default for the 3 defualt users mentioned above
On each result you can change parapertes for UserName, Password, Email and Role. For example to change admin user password you can change Password parameter value. Below is sample configuration for default users

<type name="admin" type="DefaultUser"> <!--Configuration for Admin User -->
  <lifetime type="Singleton"/>
  <typeConfig extensionType="Microsoft.Practices.Unity.Configuration.TypeInjectionElement, Microsoft.Practices.Unity.Configuration">
    <property name="UserName" propertyType="System.String"> <!--UserName parameter -->
      <value type="System.String" value="admin"/>
    </property>
    <property name="Password" propertyType="System.String"> <!--Password parameter -->
      <value type="System.String" value="admin"/> <!--Change this value if you wish -->
    </property>
    <property name="Email" propertyType="System.String"> <!--Email parameter -->
      <value type="System.String" value="admin@YOUR-DOMAIN.com"/>
    </property>
    <property name="Role" propertyType="Roles"> <!--Role Parameter -->
      <value type="Roles" value="Administrator"/> <!--Role Possible Values are (Administrator, Moderator, Bot and User) -->
    </property>
  </typeConfig>
</type>
<type name="support" type="DefaultUser">
  <lifetime type="Singleton"/>
  <typeConfig extensionType="Microsoft.Practices.Unity.Configuration.TypeInjectionElement, Microsoft.Practices.Unity.Configuration">
    <property name="UserName" propertyType="System.String">
      <value type="System.String" value="support"/>
    </property>
    <property name="Password" propertyType="System.String">
      <value type="System.String" value="support"/>
    </property>
    <property name="Email" propertyType="System.String">
      <value type="System.String" value="support@YOUR-DOMAIN.com"/>
    </property>
    <property name="Role" propertyType="Roles">
      <value type="Roles" value="Moderator"/>
    </property>
  </typeConfig>
</type>
<type name="bee" type="DefaultUser">
  <lifetime type="Singleton"/>
  <typeConfig extensionType="Microsoft.Practices.Unity.Configuration.TypeInjectionElement, Microsoft.Practices.Unity.Configuration">
    <property name="UserName" propertyType="System.String">
      <value type="System.String" value="bee"/>
    </property>
    <property name="Password" propertyType="System.String">
      <value type="System.String" value="iambusy"/>
    </property>
    <property name="Email" propertyType="System.String">
      <value type="System.String" value="bee@YOUR-DOMAIN.com"/>
    </property>
    <property name="Role" propertyType="Roles">
      <value type="Roles" value="Bot"/>
    </property>
  </typeConfig>
</type>

If you wish to add new user just copy one of the above type sections, change type element name attribute and parameter values for UserName, Password, Email and Role, as the following

<type name="testUser" type="DefaultUser">
  <lifetime type="Singleton"/>
  <typeConfig extensionType="Microsoft.Practices.Unity.Configuration.TypeInjectionElement, Microsoft.Practices.Unity.Configuration">
    <property name="UserName" propertyType="System.String">
      <value type="System.String" value="testUser"/>
    </property>
    <property name="Password" propertyType="System.String">
      <value type="System.String" value="Pa$$w0rd"/>
    </property>
    <property name="Email" propertyType="System.String">
      <value type="System.String" value="testUser@YOUR-DOMAIN.com"/>
    </property>
    <property name="Role" propertyType="Roles">
      <value type="Roles" value="User"/>
    </property>
  </typeConfig>
</type>

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