Dave Burke : Online Community and Social Business Specialist

I've been spending my latenight geek sessions this week preparing for my "Patterns of Splendor" Advanced CodeSmith presentation at New England Code Camp 9 this weekend.  That means updating Visual Studio projects, databases and CodeSmith template lib... [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]

We're close on Code Camp 9.  Real close.  Don't tarry, don't delay, register and book your room in Watham, Massachusetts for Friday and Saturday night, April 4th and 5th, to catch all of the exciting Code Camp 9 action on April 5th and 6th! Heck... [More]

One of the Community Server projects I manage is designed to be replicated many times.  Don't worry, the licenses have already been purchased.  :-)  That's not my concern.  What is my concern is scaling out the site as efficiently as p... [More]

A client of one of the non-Community Server sites I manage emailed me with a screenshot of a .NET error that occurred when they tried to use a site email service.  Salient excerpt runtime error bits below. Google keywords: "An established connection... [More]

I see this question from time to time, where someone wants to provide several PayPal buttons on a Community Server page.  This is actually a .NET issue, since each PayPal button is contained in a separate form, and only one form is supported on a .NE... [More]

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]

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]

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]

I was working on an ASP.NET site that wasn't Community Server yesterday (yeah, wild eh?), and was asked to change the colors of a potentially lengthy list of document links so that users could click on a link, view a document, then return to the list and ... [More]