If you are familiar with Wikipedia, you may have seen the random article link which selects a random page from the many thousands. This small extension does something similar.

At the moment this just renders a hyperlink which points to a randomly selected post.  I hope to update this soon and turn it into a templated control so you can specify how the control is rendered and instead of using a plain hyperlink, maybe use an image or button, or whatever else you can think of

To install and use the extension, simply upload the file into the app_code\controls folder and insert the following code into your site.master page

<blog:RandomPost ID="RandomPost1" LinkTitle="Random Post" runat="server" /> 

You can download the file below:

RandomPost1.0.zip (836.00 bytes)

You can see the control in use in the left hand navigation bar just before the file download stats. 

Here's another really simple extension for BlogEngine.Net. This one allows you embed your xbox live gamercard into a post by simply typing the following (without the spaces near the [])

[ xboxgamercard:gamertag ]  -  Replace gamertag with your gamertag

The result looks like this :-

To Install, copy XboxGamercard.cs into the app_code\extensions directory.

You can download the extension below: 

XboxGamerCard1.0.zip (868.00 bytes)

I've just moved over to a new platform for managing my website, the wonderful blogengine.net!

While I'm in the process of tidying everything up, you may notice on or two dead links on the site. I am aware of these and will be working to tidy them up as time permits.

Paul.