Dave Burke : Online Community and Social Business Specialist

I market myself as a Freelance .NET Developer specializing in Community Server, but sometimes you wouldn't know it by the amount of time I spend in Photoshop.  Photoshop chops are very valuable for freelancers like myself who need to do it all for ou... [More]

This is a fun and easy little mod that displays a thumbnail image with a blog post.  Unlike the mouseover mod I recently added to dbvt.com which pulls a random image from my photo gallery, this mod displays a specific image associated with the post.&... [More]

I have several blog themes on a Community Server site which have the same post list layout, so it was an obvious benefit to design it once for all blogs and have any changes affect them all.  So on postlist.aspx I broke out the WeblogPostList area in... [More]

Yeap, I entered it on my Outlook calendar and am down for the Bob and Chris New England Roadshow at the Burlington Sheraton on September 10th!  I enjoyed the last roadshow in May and am looking forward to seeing our wonderful Microsoft Nort... [More]

I enjoyed the CS Bit from yesterday's Byte capturing a rant about Community Server's use of serialized data in key/value fields from a developer who was frustrated migrating the data in SQL to another application (as opposed ... [More]

I haven't done anything on my website for fun since I upgraded to CS2007 and was overdue on adding a new feature.  I've been using a titles-only display for recent blog posts since CS 2.1 because I think its the most efficient way to naviga... [More]

Ben Tiedt provided a very instructional reply to a Community Server Forums question on how to obtain the various QueryOverride properties of a Chameleon control in the CHM Chameleon Control Documentation.  Here is part of his reply:   To navigat... [More]

I know I should be able to crank out an instance of a custom Community Server Data Provider in my sleep, but I'm a wuss and find it tedious, even though we're only talking about two lines of code.  I seem to have to type those two lines pretty freque... [More]

There's a lot in SQL2005 I haven't taken advantage of, and I'm probably not alone, but here's a new SQL2005 feature that I use all the time: Object Explorer Filtering.  What it does is restrict the display of objects in the left-hand SQL2005 explorer... [More]

This is more of an ASP.NET item than Community Server, though you see it in CS quite a bit.  It's another case for me as a developer doing a lot of CS customization able to say, "I like how these guys think!" By "Smarter DropDownList Controls" I'm re... [More]