Dave Burke : Online Community and Social Business Specialist

I blogged about my CodeSmith project named CSTiers when it was born.   I've been using it quite a bit to generate custom Chameleon controls, Provider classes, and business objects.  This weekend I added templates to generate custom Configur... [More]

Extensive caching is one of the reasons Community Server rocks and scales out the ying-yang for sites like Dell, MSNBC, Microsoft and MySpace.  But for off-the-highway sites like DBVT.COM CS Caching can be annoying, especially in CS 2007.1 where some... [More]

The topic of uploading multiple images in Community Server goes way back and there are a number of guides already out there.  Yet I was writing a few how-to PDF's for a client today and one of the how-to's included the process of uploading multiple i... [More]

This is more for the guys who hang out at the Community Server Developer Cafe, but if you're entering post objects programmatically in Community Server it's a good idea to handle the PostResults.DuplicationName post.Add() result.  The core of my Com... [More]

This may seem like a minor nuglet, but it's another of those Chameleon features that fall into the category of "I like how that Ben Tiedt thinks!"  Community Server Chameleon really is a marvelous architecture and I enjoy discovering little gems... [More]

The Community Server Controls source library contains a WrappedContentBase class that can be extended for a variety of purposes, making it very easy to build context-aware controls to use in conjunction with other CS Chameleon List, Data and Form controls... [More]

When people ask me how a Community Server license can cost $2000, I can go down any number of paths to justify why it's worth every penny.  From a developer's perspective, Event Logging is one of those features I always mention why CS a good value.&n... [More]

The world is moving to LINQ and here I am still learning how to think in Generics.  Take this quick example of how I am learning about generic economics.  I have a Community Server Chameleon List control of hours billed per week on all jobs per ... [More]

Community Server Chameleon Forms are placed on an .ASPX page like any ASP.NET control, with each control within the form declared when its created.  Here's an example. <DBVT:LaborUpdateForm ID="LaborUpdateForm1" runat="server"     L... [More]

I wrote this step-by-step guide to help my clients configure a DBVT custom project in Community Server, where another developer or the client's IT staff takes over management of the site.  While the instructions are specific to how I deliver projects... [More]