October 2006 - Posts

30 October 2006
The Secrets of CSModules
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 benefit from them, and also a collection of resources to find out more,... Read More...
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27 October 2006
Wikipedia Link Module
Just installed Ben Tiedt's Wikipedia Link Module . A CSModule that lets you add highlighted, clickable words to your posts, that when clicked shows a little pop-up with an excerpt on that word from Wikipedia. I have played with this module before, but had forgotten that it existed. . A great and useful... Read More...
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25 October 2006
Adding more buttons to TinyMCE in CS
Community Server 2.1 uses TinyMCE as the build-in editor for posting in forums, blogs etc. You can choose in your profile if you want to run the Standard or Enhanced implementation of TinyMCE in CS. Figure 1: Content Editor Options in your profile Even though I always use the Enhanced version myself... Read More...
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23 October 2006
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 of his posts. He wondered if I knew of any such control... Read More...
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21 October 2006
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 find it useful, I have uploaded it to my downloads... Read More...
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19 October 2006
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. I have most of the code working in my development... Read More...
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19 October 2006
Microsoft Zune Player
I thought I'd make use of one of the CSModules I've done again, to show a video I found at Soapbox. This is a small walkthrough of some of the features of the Zune player. I am an iPod (Nano) user today, and I really like the iPod. Works very well for me, and easy to use. But I can't deny that the Zune... Read More...
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17 October 2006
Getting into Context with your CSJobs
While working on an add-on that forces users to change their passwords in CS, I stumbled upon a problem that I've seen others also have had problems with. To be able to get a context for certain operations/calls within the CS API. For example to get a UserSet with the help of a UserQuery requires... Read More...
15 October 2006
CSModule for Mindmanager Maps
I've been quiet for a couple of days. So what have I done? Nothing? Well, I have done something! I have been continuing my work on an add-on for forcing users to change passwords after a admin configurable period. It's currently a CSJob, which I found wasn't that easy to debug. But I believe... Read More...
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09 October 2006
Updated the MSN Soapbox CSModule to ver. 1.61009.1.0
A quick note that I just updated MSN Soapbox CSModule to a new version. Got a comment from Michael S. Scherotter that he had got a mail from MSN that they've updated the embed code for better performance. So I have updated the CSModule to use the new embed code. Also I noticed that I introduced a... Read More...
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09 October 2006
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 message for syndicated feeds. It was already there... Read More...
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07 October 2006
Updated the MSN Soapbox CSModule to ver. 1.61005.1.0
Just a note that I updated the MSN Soapbox CSModule to a new version, and that it's available for download . If you previously downloaded this CSModule (before today), just download the new file and replace your current DLL in your BIN directory. So what generated the update? In the first version, I... Read More...
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05 October 2006
Audit who creates users
In certain situations, for different reasons, there might be a need for increased auditing of what happens in Community Server . The CS Eventlog is there today and logs different events. In a the CS forums the question came up from a member , if it is possible to audit who creates a user in a forum.... Read More...
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03 October 2006
Videos on the CS Home Page
After writing the article " CSModule for MSN SoapBox " I got a question on how to put up a Soapbox video on the Home Page of Community Server . And since the last 2 articles has been about Soapbox and CS, why not have one more? Tell me if it's getting a bit too soapy (yes, I love really... Read More...
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02 October 2006
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 code of Ken Robertson's Qgyen.Lightbox CSModule... Read More...
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