Dave Burke : Online Community and Social Business Specialist

Another Jobs Management Application lesson for us tonight to demonstrate new and exciting ways to use the Community Server HelpToolTip Popup Control.  In this session we will be using the HelpToolTip Popup Control to provide information to users when... [More]

In my Jobs Management app built on Community Server I needed to display job documents.  Another in-house Document Management application already had a page that displayed documents based on jobs, so instead of designing original Chameleon controls as... [More]

This is for folks working with the CS2008 SDK who would use the cs_4.0_CreateFullDatabase.sql script to create the Community Server 2008 database.  Scroll to the end of the file where you'll find the cs_system_CreateCommunity stored procedure.  ... [More]

A common issue with Community Server 2007 was frequently required logins.  This was always resolved by adding a MachineKey to the web.config.  I add a MachineKey to each of my CS sites as one of my first setup tasks.  In working with CS2008... [More]

I'm way behind on my Community Server forums reading, so this has probably been covered.  Community Server 2008 displays a personalized home page for registered users.  Anonymous and users not logged-in see the welcome page.  Below is the n... [More]

I've created a few custom Community Server link controls in my day deriving from WrappedContentBase that display a modal window when clicked.  They're smart and efficient, but I didn't like the fact that when doing a mouseover the cursor did not chan... [More]

This is a nuglet worth it's bits.  If adding an inline CssCode property to a Chameleon element, remember that the default CSS tag generated is a DIV tag, which means that you'll see line-breaks and not be able to figure out why.  Add a tag="Spa... [More]

I needed to create an Email Alert function the other day to send emails to a designated Community Server Role when a certain background task encountered an error.  Posting an event to the CS Event log wasn't good enough for us this time.  In the... [More]

Custom Community Server applications typically extend the out-of-box applications like forums, blogs or the (new in CS2008) media gallery. To reduce development time and original coding, we can treat certain properties of the application's core objects as... [More]

I've been using Event Logging extensively to monitor various processes and background tasks in my Community Server-based Jobs Management Application.  This morning's report is a great example of using the Event Log with custom application events. Sta... [More]