Handy function for properly formatting the whitespace of an XML stream as a string … took me a while to figure this out as most examples show how to format it to a file.

private static string FormatXML(string xml)
{
    var doc = new XmlDocument();
    doc.LoadXml(xml);

    var textWriter = new StringWriter();
    var xmlTextWriter = new XmlTextWriter(textWriter) { Formatting = Formatting.Indented };

    doc.Save(xmlTextWriter);

    return textWriter.ToString();
}

Ok, I've been playing around with BlogEngine.NET for several days now (with the sourcecode on my local machine that is).

In roughly 6 hours  I've managed to figure out how to:

• Implement a Theme and customize it.
• Impelment LightBox functionality
• Pull my webalbums from Picasa (into lightbox :)
• Edit the source to only show a single image for a lightbox webalbum in a post
• Implement a 3rd party extension to give me security around only certains posts that I decide I want people to have to login to view.