Dave Burke : Online Community and Social Business Specialist

blog bits Ask Crome, a prolific resource for answers on CS Forums posts a comprehensive list of Addons for Community Server 2007. Roman Nikitin in Russia wrote an Invision Power Board to Community Server 2007 converter.  Source available. forum bi... [More]

Funny, I feel like I'm still in Christmas and New Years holiday mode and that the grind hasn't really kicked into gear yet.  To help bring me back into the workabilly flow I'll write this holiday season 2007 recap to remind myself that the grind has ... [More]

A Community Server Chameleon Form I put online this week required that the user be known (logged-in) before permitted to complete or view the form.  So the page has three DisplayConditions, one to test IsAnonymous to display the "you must login..." m... [More]

I was throwing a new CS2007.1 site on my development server on Christmas Eve when I encountered the error below. The SDK compiled clean, the cs_3.0_CreateFullDatabase.sql ran without a glitch and my connectionstring.config was correct, yet I couldn't... [More]

blog bits Telligent's Tom Edwards with the most extensive description to date of Community Server 2008.  "Of the new CS 2008 features: expanded profiles (think facebook), media gallery, enhanced private messaging, simplified control panel, REST API... [More]

Since upgrading to CS2007.1 my Contact Form line breaks no longer existed.  Do yours?  There were some threads about it on CS Forums.  I reported on them and even applied the patch (updating Globals.cs NewLine constant), but no go in Vermon... [More]

I needed to send out an email to members of a billing group in my Community Server Business App when a job was marked complete.  I could have done something simple, but I wanted to do something cool and dig a bit deeper in the API since I had the opp... [More]

The term Composite CodeSmith Template refers to generating code across several tiers of an application, writing code for multiple classes in a single template, somewhat of a cross between a single template and a CodeSmith Project.  I don't ... [More]

In our last episode we finished the modules that gather purchased and truck inventory charges in our Community Server-based Jobs Management Application, and so it was time to start doing something useful with all of that data.  A Job Slips module was... [More]

When you fire-up the CS2007.1 SDK and go to debug the first time you may encounter the Visual Studio error message, Unable to start debugging on the web server. The debugger cannot connect to the remote computer. This may be because the remote computer d... [More]