Dave Burke : Freelance .NET Web Developer specializing in Online Communities

I have the opportunity to immerse myself in Silverlight 2.0 for a week or two.  The immediate objective is to replace a bandwidth-intensive custom Community Server form with a Silverlight 2.0 version.  The long-term objective is to move the inte... [More]

My wife and daughter are out of town for a week visiting her folks, leaving me "alone with my work."  And I've been banging out a lot of code.  Today's 10 hours were spent working toward the goal of converting dynamically generated ASPX Job Slip... [More]

Ben Tiedt's Chameleon is one of my favorite aspects of developing in Community Server.  With it's hierarchical contextual awareness and library of smart ASPNET controls, sophisticated UI's can be created in very little time.  Of course, using Co... [More]

I sling a lot of data in and out of my Jobs Management Application and this afternoon's slinging consisted of Job Estimate data from Microsoft Access.  The process occurs through a Community Server background task and consists of three steps.  1... [More]

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]

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]

Community Server background tasks are great and I've created a lot of them.  There's one thing about background tasks that can cause problems, however.  When the website process stops so do all of its background tasks. I was designing a task tod... [More]

I always jump at the chance to work with Community Server Chameleon Group controls, as they are powerful, flexible and fun!  An example of a Chameleon Group control out of the box is the display of blogs by blog group as shown here at communitys... [More]