Releases: ravisiyer/BlogBackupToBook
v4
As compared to release v3, this release v4 has undergone more tests but it has not been thoroughly tested. I do not have the time now to do that thorough testing and bug-fixing as I have got busy with other stuff. This is the release interested persons can try out and see if it meets their needs.
If I recall correctly, the setup file program in v3 release had some issues which were not easily getting resolved. The setup file part has been dropped in this release v4 as I don't have time for refreshing where I was on it, and then taking it forward. This current v4 release does not have setup file folder and project but earlier v3 release has it. No other changes have been made to v3 release in v4 release i.e. the main project - BlogBackupToBook - which is mapped to folder VB-ExportFileFilterAndGenBook (as that was the earlier project name) - is unchanged. No changes have been made to any of its files including source files.
If somebody wants to fix the setup file issues and then use it, he/she can use v3 release.
Known issue in v4 release:
Cloning the current (which is v4 release) Github repo and then building the program works. But on running it to generate a blog book, an error message about BlogBook-Footer-Text.html not being found is shown. The blog book is still generated but without the BlogBook-Footer-Text.html content which is a minor issue.
A workaround to fix the problem is to copy BlogBook-Footer-Text.html from the main project source directory to the directory of the executable (bin\Debug\net6.0-windows or bin\Release\net6.0-windows on my setup based on whether I did a Debug build and/or a Release build).
I do not want to try to fix this issue in the source code now. Don't know if I will fix it later on sometime. Of course, if somebody is interested to fix the issue and does it, and then shares the fix, it will be great!
Given below is some more background on this release from my blog post on this project: Ported ExportFileFilterAndGenBook and ExportFileFilterByIndexList from VBA to BlogBackupToBook VB.Net single project of Visual Studio 2022 Community Edition, https://ravisiyermisc.blogspot.com/2023/09/ported-exportfilefilterandgenbook-from.html. Note that this release 4 is referred to as version 4 in the extracts below:
I stopped work on this project around end Sept. 2023. Now in mid Nov. 2023, I have completed some standard test/usage runs of the software and confirmed that they largely work as expected or at least seem to do so. I do not have the time to do thorough testing of the software and bug-fixing as I have got busy with other stuff. But I have quickly documented current state of the software through these standard test/usage runs and provided some info. that may help me and any other interested persons to use the software for the tasks that it does properly.
Version 4 is the latest version which is just the same main project code but without setup project. The latest test runs and info. for version 4 are in Google Drive folder: VB-ExportFileFilterAndGenBook/v4, https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1zxJOGtFWXeKqH0LaJNnwMktnpo1BsDbK?usp=drive_link , In this folder, the file Info.txt gives an overview of the tests and connects to files describing individual test runs.
How to use the software: Short User Guide to creating Blogger Blogbooks from Backup/Export File using BlogBackupToBook VB.Net project and ExportFileFilterAndGenBook and another VBA projects' macros/code (free and open source), https://ravisiyermisc.blogspot.com/2023/09/short-user-guide-to-creating-blogger.html