Community Server on my mind

Brand new CSModule pack for CS 2007 - Cinnabar

As some of you might already have seen, the Community Server MVP's CSModule pack has a new release. The new package is called Cinnabar , and is targeted for CS 2007. So if you want to use your favorite CSModule pack on your new upgraded to CS 2007 site Read More... If you enjoyed this post Subscribe to my feed via RSS or e-mail!

How to add new users to different roles on the fly

Sometimes there might be a need to add your users to different roles, depending on certain invitations, at registration time. Is that possible in Community Server (CS)? Well, in this case CSModules can be your friend as in many other situations. The other Read More... If you enjoyed this post Subscribe to my feed via RSS or e-mail!

Using Localizable E-mail Templates

Wouldn't it be great to be able to standardize how mails sent from your Community Server site looks, and to be able to change them on demand without having to re-compile anything? As you might know Community Server (CS) already has a built-in system for Read More... If you enjoyed this post Subscribe to my feed via RSS or e-mail!

Correction of one of my old posts

Previously on J-O Erikssons blog: A long, long time ago. At least in Internet Time. At J-O Eriksson's old blog there was an article about a solution to handle sending Newsletters to your Community Server users with the help of CS Roles . As time went Read More... If you enjoyed this post Subscribe to my feed via RSS or e-mail!

CS 2007 New Feature: File Storage in blogs

One of the new features in Community Server 2007 is being able to store files on a per blog and/or a per site basis. This article gives you a walk through of how it is currently implemented in CS 2007 Beta 1. I assume most of you have read about the new Read More... If you enjoyed this post Subscribe to my feed via RSS or e-mail!

The forgotten notifications (a new CSModule)

Do you have any forums posts that have been caught by a spam rule? Or do you have any forums posts that haven't been approved for other reasons? It's not easy to know unless you frequently visit your Control Panel -> Forums to Moderate . I have had Read More... If you enjoyed this post Subscribe to my feed via RSS or e-mail!

SoapBox CSModule - the source code online

I happened to browse to CodePlex today. Haven't been there for ages. They have updated their interface in many areas. One cool thing that caught my interest was that I now can browse the source code of a project without having to download and load it Read More... If you enjoyed this post Subscribe to my feed via RSS or e-mail!

Do you have problems with Community Server Database size?

If you have your Community Server web site at a hoster, have you been confronted with the issue of a growing CS Database? In a conversation with Keyvan the other day, he pointed me to a forum thread at communityserver.org, and hinted that this might be Read More... If you enjoyed this post Subscribe to my feed via RSS or e-mail!

How to learn where your users click

Implementing a more clear menu, like I did the other day, and do other changes to you blog, might be of no meaning at all if you're not aware of how/if they are used. Assuming your blog is for you readers, and not just a personal journal for yourself, Read More... If you enjoyed this post Subscribe to my feed via RSS or e-mail!

How to create a WeblogThemedControl

Want to create a Community Server control that adapts to your blog's theme/skin? Community Server (CS) contains a class named WeblogThemedControl, which is used for many of the built in blog controls in CS. One of the features of the WeblogThemedControl Read More... If you enjoyed this post Subscribe to my feed via RSS or e-mail!

Show them your most popular posts in 3 steps

Listen to this article Have you ever wondered how you could bring up the absolutely most popular topics of your blog, and put them in a list on your blog home page? I hadn't really, until I saw some other blogs (non-CS) that had a list of those on their Read More... If you enjoyed this post Subscribe to my feed via RSS or e-mail!

The Secrets of CSModules

Listen to this article Whether you are a developer, or a Community Server admin that haven't got much experience of .NET Development, I believe you should benefit from this article. This article gives you an overview of what CSModules are, how can you Read More... If you enjoyed this post Subscribe to my feed via RSS or e-mail!

External Tag Links CSModule

A member of my Swedish CS community has been using Wordpress for his blog for a while. Now he's planning to move to Community Server . One of the things he used with Wordpress was a control that let him add kind of external tag links to the bottom Read More... If you enjoyed this post Subscribe to my feed via RSS or e-mail!

Visual Studio Template for CSModules

I created a Visual Studio 2005 template for my own use when creating CSModules. The template contains the base line code that you need for creating a basic CSModule, and some basic instruction on what you need to get going. In case someone else would Read More... If you enjoyed this post Subscribe to my feed via RSS or e-mail!

Thoughts on a Job for Max age of user passwords

As I've mentioned before, I have been working a bit on a CSJob for initially forcing users to change passwords after a specified amount of time. And I thought I'd share some ideas around it this article, and see if it would be a usable CSJob. Read More... If you enjoyed this post Subscribe to my feed via RSS or e-mail!