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14 May 2007
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 this is the package to download. It also has... Read More...
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12 March 2007
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 day there was a request for this functionality... Read More...
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07 March 2007
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 this. This localizable template system is used... Read More...
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12 February 2007
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 sites where I discovered posts that were several... Read More...
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29 November 2006
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 a good idea for a CSJob. In that thread a user wants... Read More...
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29 November 2006
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 a good idea for a CSJob. In that thread a user wants... Read More...
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06 November 2006
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 is that it has a corresponding .ASCX file usually... Read More...
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02 November 2006
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, Thomas is correct! The AggregatePostList control... Read More...
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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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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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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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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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13 September 2006
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 more than that. He describes how to set up CS... Read More...
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28 August 2006
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 like to talk a little bit more about... Read More...
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