It took a little longer than I had wanted; however, it is done and ready.  You can download version 1.0.0.0 of the PasswordGenerator Widget from this post below.  This widget is designed to work with Blogengine.  I have tested it on version 1.4.5.14 with both a back end MS SQL database and the xml backend.  Both seem to work fine.  The widget is very simple, but handy.  I hope it will help others figure out how to write there own widgets and extensions.  It is available for free (however, I offer no guarantee that it will funciton).  Please feel free to do with it what you will.  If you do find pro... [More]

I took a few minutes last night and figured out the admin management / edit page and data storage for a widget.  In the end, very easy.  Blogengine stores the data in either the database or xml based on your provider settings for your site.  Everything I am doing is with an MSSQL database backend so in my case blogengine store that data to the be_DataStoreSettings table.  It very simply stores all of the settings for a widget in that table identifying the id of the widget and the settings for the widget in seperate fields.  In the settings field, all settings for the widget are stored as xml.  In the end the datastore table only has one record per widget.&nbs... [More]

I have just added my first Blogengine widget.  It is not a hard thing to do at all.  For those of you using the previous password generator page on my wordpress site, sorry it took me a while to get this back up on the new site.  I hope you will find this widget as good.  I realize I did not add the checkbox for "mixed case" which I will add soon.

Ultimately adding a custom widget is easy.  Pretty much all you have to do is create a user control and identify it as a widget.  In an upcoming post I will go into more detail, but for now the Password Generator is back.

I recently added a widget to this blog and struggled to find a way to maintain the scroll position after clicking submit.  It turns out this is an incredibly easy thing to do (once you find it). All that I needed to do was add the following to the code behind of my master page.

Page.MaintainScrollPositionOnPostback = true;

It requires java script to be enabled; however, it works very well.  In searching for how to do this I found many other solutions, most of which were much more complicated and involved.  Though I am not sure this is the best way, it works for what I needed.