Update the sitemap in BlogEngine.net from protocol 0.84 to 0.9

For some time now the protocol supported by Google for sitemap has been updated from version 0.84 to version 0.9. Of course Google will continue to accept sitemaps created with the old standard for some time, but there are already many communications sent to webmasters to adapt their sitemaps to the new version.

A report of the new sitemap scheme can be found here: http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9 and here: http://www.sitemaps.org/protocol.html.

For all those who have a site on the BlogEngine.net platform, they must necessarily update the file SiteMap.cs, which is not present, however, in the version Web of the downloaded source but in that Source.

Let's see how to do it:

• 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 BlogEngine.sln version 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.
• Let's replace the following lines of code:
  

writer.WriteStartElement(“urlset”, “http://www.google.com/schemas/sitemap/0.84”);

with these

writer.WriteStartElement(“urlset”, “http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9“);

Let's save everything.

• 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.

Now our sitemap protocol is updated to version 0.9.

For more information on what has been said, take a look at this video: