Application for importing blog entries from .Text to Typepad
I promised to post the code that I wrote to import/export blog entries. The attached .NET code has several interfaces that define a generic blog importer/exporter. It also has two concrete classes that define a .Text exporter and a Typepad importer. It has a console application that calls the importer/exporter framework to execute the process.
There is a lot of ways to improve this such as some good output and transfering of images (you still have to do that manually) but it is a start. Since I didnt have that many entries, I didn't put that much time into it (probably took me about 5 hours total).
The .Text exporter retrieves the entries from the SQL Server database and the Typepad importer creates a file that can be used to import the entries from the control panel. The format that is required for importing to Typepad can be found at http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/docs/mtimport.
Let me know if anyone downloads it and tries it. If you have any issues or questions, you can email me at jwright [at] innovativstudios [dotcom]. Oh yeah, I'm not responsible for any loss of data, etc., etc.
