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!

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!

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 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!

Popular Topics - Follow up

After I posted the article about the Popular Topics yesterday, Thomas Freudenberg asked me: "Maybe I'm wrong, but isn't AggregatePostList supposed to do this?" He also pointed me to an article from May this year , posted by Jaxon Rice. And, of course, 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!

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!

Filtering out Text Part functionality from Comments

When I posted my update regarding the SoapBox CSModule this weekend, I must have been a bit confused. I said I made 2 changes, but realized now that one of those changes was already in the first version. What I mean is the functionality to set a custom Read More... If you enjoyed this post Subscribe to my feed via RSS or e-mail!

Building a simple CSModule that uses CS Text Parts (The SoapBox Sample)

Last Friday I posted about a new CSModule that I had just created for showing MSN SoapBox videos in Community Server . Inspired by Gary McPherson's YouTube CSModule which is included in the Alabaster CSModule Package, and by looking through the source Read More... If you enjoyed this post Subscribe to my feed via RSS or e-mail!

Setting up the SDK in VS 2005

Dave mentioned this in his Monday daily news post , but I thought it was worth repeating and also correcting Dave's statement a bit. In the daily news it says Dave Stokes released a document detailing the installation of Community Server 2.1. It's actually Read More... If you enjoyed this post Subscribe to my feed via RSS or e-mail!

The NewUserDefault CSModule of the Alabaster package

A few weeks ago, the Community Server MVP's released a package of CSModule's , which we called Alabaster. It contained a couple of CSModule's developed by a couple of us MVP's. My contribution to Alabaster was a module called NewUserDefaults, which I Read More... If you enjoyed this post Subscribe to my feed via RSS or e-mail!

CS2: Good articles: Creating attachements to CS posts programatically

Some time ago I got a coffe mug as a present from a friend of mine. It's a black coffe mug which has the word 'Geek' written on it in white. Don't know why my friend thought it would fit me. :-)

I wonder, am I a geek if I sometimes get inspired by code? Probably, right? When I read a code article that's good, I get inspired and start thinking of what I could do with the info in the article. Some weeks ago I wrote that Keyvan Nayyeri's posts in his 'CS Dev Guide' series, got me inspired to start programming again, after having done almost nothing in that area for a couple of years.

Today I sat and read an article that Keyvan published on this friday about Post attachements. He shows us how the CommunityServer.Components.PostAttachment object can be used to add attachement to posts in blogs, forums, file gallery etc. He also answers to the question to why Community Server only supports one attachment per post.

Anyway, go there and read it if you're into developing, it's good reading.

With the article he has written about coding against blogs in CS, you have the tools to, for example, build a blog editor for CS that supports pictures (well currently at least one picture per post) without relying on a FTP server, Sharepoint site, Flickr account or similar. I haven't seen any blog editor that does that currently against CS.

Well, you might have to build a web service to support that blog editor, but after reading Keyvans articles about developing against the CS blog that shouldn't be a problem. Hmm, it's been a while since I did develop anything, but you can send files (bit stream) to a web service, can't you?

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