Blog application tutorial
Blog application Blog application

## Overview

- The application allow users to post messages to a Weblog servers using XML-RPC protocol.
- It can work locally where as server is used one running the application.
- Also it demonstrate usage of VSPX calendar, dataset and login controls.
- The demo also shows usage of blogger API.

## Application pages

The application has the following pages:

- Login

  This page allow existing Web users to login to the application. Furthermore these credentials will be used to authenticate against Weblog server. When user is authenticated the request will be redirected to the home page.

- Configuration

  This page is accessible via "Settings" link of home page (see below). It allows users to configure parameters for blogger API request as "appkey", "blogID" and target server endpoint. It's vital for application to set these properly before trying any aother action on home page.

- Home

  This page allows users to enter a new message, to edit an existing or see in archive organized by date. To look at the archive calendar control is used for navigation. Please note that this application limits number of messages shown at screen for brevity; so as exercise it can be edited to show number of messages entered on that page in special box.