Dave Burke : Online Community and Social Business Specialist

I had to add this fix for a new Community Server site launch this fine Super Bowl Sunday so I thought I might as well blog about it.  It's also an important issue when using Community Server Single Sign-On. Single Sign-On automatically creates new us... [More]

I’m looking forward to the day when I’ll be announcing new releases of my Drive CodeSmith template library to generate custom code for Sueetie, but while I’m still doing a lot of Community Server stuff I will continue to release updates to Drive for CS de... [More]

We've all been there.  We add a field to a SQL Table because our business object needs a new property, which means we have to change the business object and include the new property or properties in the various processes where the object is being pop... [More]

This is one of those monkey-on-my-back posts that I need to write before we can get back to regularly scheduled dbvt.com programming.  I've been using the Drive code generation templates more and more.  I've been adding new templates to the libr... [More]

Any of you who go back with me are very accustomed to seeing "DBVT" code samples, like when I posted about CSTiers, an early version of what would become the Drive Template Library for Community Server. DBVTUser user = DBVTContext.Current.DBVTUser;if (use... [More]

I released Drive v1.0.1 today.  Thanks to the good feedback I've been receiving, I'm seeing how important it is for the Drive Startup Project to compile clean and without any problems. The Project Startup templates are the foundation of generating cu... [More]

I'm excited to announce the release of Drive, a Rapid Development Framework for Community Server.  You can learn more about Drive and download the framework at DriveFramework.com. "Rapid Development Framework for Community Server" is a rather high fa... [More]

I'm working on a CodeSmith template package for distribution that includes a Project .CSP file.  It will be important to set as many property defaults as possible to help people get up to speed with the templates, so I made an effort to set defaults ... [More]

In my free time I'm sprucing up a set of CodeSmith templates for distribution (can't say more right now) and am going through each one setting default property values to make it easier for other developers to get up to speed with them.  I needed quot... [More]

In case there was anyone out there other than me who enjoys scrolling through the Stylin screen pics and wants another way to quickly get there, I added a second access point to them tonight.  (I blogged about the BE.NET particulars of the Stylin scr... [More]