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19 February 2007
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 file storage capabilities (code name Zion) before... Read More...

Filed under: ASP .NET 2.0, CSBlogs, CS 2007

22 November 2006
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, you'd want to know if the features you add to you... Read More...

Filed under: ASP .NET 1.1, CS 2.0, ASP .NET 2.0, CS 2.1, HowTo, CSBlogs, Skinning

19 November 2006
Improving the Community Server Blog

For those of you reading my posts from the web page, rather than through RSS, might notice that I have done some small changes to my blog. First I've tried to make the top menu a bit clearer. So for instance I renamed the item 'E-mail', which could be seen as 'E-mail subscription', especially when it... Read More...

Filed under: HowTo, CSBlogs

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...

Filed under: Whitepaper, ASP .NET 2.0, CS 2.1, HowTo, CSBlogs, CS API

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...

Filed under: CS 2.1, CSBlogs, CS API

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...

Filed under: CSModules, ASP .NET 2.0, CS 2.1, CSBlogs

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...

Filed under: CSModules, CSForums, ASP .NET 2.0, CS 2.1, HowTo, CSBlogs, CS API

28 September 2006
CSModule for MSN Soapbox

Have you seen the New MSN SoapBox ? It's like MSN's answer to YouTube. You can upload your videos, comment rate etc videos. From what I've seen of it so far it seems a pretty cool site. And if it's a cool site, you need to be able to integrate it to a cool application like Community Server . So, I put... Read More...

Filed under: CSModules, CSForums, ASP .NET 2.0, CS 2.1, CSBlogs

01 September 2006
Tranquilize your blog and inbox

Many of us in the Community Server Land have been talking about blog spam comments, spam rules etc the last weeks. One thing left out, at least from my own blog, is an issue that comes with these spam huntings, and that I got asked in the comments of my last post, is the fact that even if you manage... Read More...

Filed under: Community Server, ASP .NET 1.1, ASP .NET 2.0, CS 2.1, RSS, HowTo, CSBlogs

30 August 2006
Deleting Auto-Deleted Spam comments

The last week, many of us have seen a large increase of spam comments sent to our Community Server blogs. That has given us the opportunity to learn how CS Spam rules work, and to see what a great job they do if configured correctly. And you might also have heard about the Akisment module in the Alabaster... Read More...

Filed under: ASP .NET 1.1, ASP .NET 2.0, CS 2.1, HowTo, CSBlogs

25 August 2006
What? No screencast today?

I won't have any screencast today as I usually have on Fridays. Why? Simply because it's getting hard to find good ideas for screencast's every week , and I don't want to start doing any topic just to keep the "schedule". But fear not, there will be more of them. I am planning... Read More...

Filed under: Community Server, CSModules, CS 2.1, Screencast, CSBlogs

23 August 2006
Add/Remove buttons from the Paperclip Theme

If you run your blog at the root as I do, you might want to get better use of the toolbar of the blog. In my case I use a modified version of the Paperclip theme. As you can see in the picture above, I have modified the toolbar by adding 2 buttons (Media and Downloads). Since I use feedburner as RSS... Read More...

Filed under: ASP .NET 1.1, CS 2.0, ASP .NET 2.0, CS 2.1, HowTo, CSBlogs, Skinning