Dave Burke : Online Community and Social Business Specialist

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]

The Community Server blog edit page, PostEdit.aspx derives from BaseBlogPage.cs, which derives from PanelPage.cs, which derives from CSConfirmationPage.cs, which is where we enjoy the popup "Are you sure you want to leave this page???" if you click anythi... [More]

I inadvertently blogged about this new CS2008.5 SP1 feature last week after encountering an error using the post editor's Insert Media selector.  As I described in that post, the fix was adding theme.config information to support the new media handli... [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]

Overall a good week was had by all.  Enjoyed some new client contacts, both Community Server and non-CS.  I'll talk about the client contacts first.  Interestingly, both CS gigs involved upgrades from CS2008 to CS2008.5, and both sites were... [More]

Upgrading a customized Community Server site is always a real pain-in-the-ass an exciting adventure, because you never know where you'll find a new reaming opportunity to learn something new! The client sites I upgraded from CS2008.5 to CS2008.5 SP1 today... [More]

I updated five Community Server 2008.5 sites to SP1 this morning and everything went pretty smoothly.  Fortunately I'd done it a bunch of times before.  I did encounter a weird "Fix for given key not present in the dictionary error" when I teste... [More]

The _Override.config architecture in Community Server is a sweet thing, allowing customization of both the CommunityServer.config and SiteUrls.config without touching the source files.  Using the XPath Override logic is usually pretty straightforward... [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]

One of the best features of Community Server of Olden Times was the home page Content Part. You might've been clueless about Community Server, but when you loaded up your new community site for the first time and logged in as "admin," it was immediately a... [More]