➤ BlogEngine.net: Set post URLs to lowercase in Sitemap.axd 🎮

A few days ago I was faced with the problem of setting the URLs of the Sitemap.axd from BlogEngine.net lowercase, especially as regards the posts created.

Not having found any sitemap generator with lowercase characters option I went through the following steps.

Here's what to do:

Let's download Visual Studio Express 2013.
Let's download the file BlogEngine.net (source) of the current version we are using.
Let's open the version BlogEngine.sln in Source/Blogengine
In Solution Explorer of VS 2013 Express we go to BlogEngine.Core.
Let's edit the file SiteMap.cs which we find here: BlogEngine.Core/HttpHandlers/Web/SiteMap.cs.
We replace the following lines of code in the Posts scope:

Prima

// Posts foreach (var post in Post.Posts.Where(post => post.IsVisibleToPublic)) { writer.WriteStartElement("url"); writer.WriteElementString("loc", post.AbsoluteLink.ToString()); writer.WriteElementString( "lastmod", post.DateModified.ToString("yyyy-MM-dd", CultureInfo.InvariantCulture)); writer.WriteElementString("changefreq", "monthly"); writer.WriteEndElement(); }

After

// Posts foreach (var post in Post.Posts.Where(post => post.IsVisibleToPublic)) { writer.WriteStartElement("url"); writer.WriteElementString("loc", post.AbsoluteLink.ToString().ToLower()); writer.WriteElementString( "lastmod", post.DateModified.ToString("yyyy-MM-dd", CultureInfo.InvariantCulture)); writer.WriteElementString("changefreq", "monthly"); writer.WriteEndElement(); }

Basically in the "After" I added the ToLower() all’AbsoluteLink del post “writer.WriteElementString(“loc”, post.AbsoluteLink.ToString())”.

Let's save everything.

BlogEngine.net: Set post URLs to lowercase in Sitemap.axd

Now let's click on ReBuild (Recompile) in order to recreate the file Blogengine.core.dll.
We can also press CTRL-F5 to make sure the recompilation has been done.
We upload the recompiled file BlogEngine.Core.dll present in the path SourceBlogEngineBlogEngine.CorebinRelease and replace the Blogengine.core.dll in the folder bin placed in the root of our site.

Time the Sitemap.axd of our blog presents the URLs of the Posts in lowercase.

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