blog bits
- Justin Pierce's distinctive and good looking BlogFish blog is now running CS2007. Fifteen minute install and six or so hours updating his fine skin to Chameleon.
- Dan Maharry walks through the steps in getting the CS2007 SDK up and running.
- Number One cause of IE7 problems with Community Server seems to be Microsoft.Ink support. Always was, always will be. Or not.
- Say it ain't so! The Bisnut is dabbling in WordPress. The title of his inaugural WordPress post is "Yes. This is a Community Server user...on WordPress."
- Interesting FAQ on Microsoft Community, with an answer to "Are you trying to compete with Community Server?" "...we don't really see ourselves in direct competition with that solution. Rather, we hope to provide the "plumbing" that Web sites and other applications—including community sites built on Community Server technology—can use..."
- Scott Watermasysk with a refreshing non-announcement of the CS2007 release, with news of custom Wiki and KB systems in the works, and "significant announcements to make in the next couple of weeks."
- I don't know where ScottW expects to find developers qualified to work with Ben, Kevin, Dan, Ken, Jose and Wyatt on the Community Server Core Team, but he's advertising for two new additions none-the-less. Speaking of the Core Team, they should be about finished up with their week-long meeting at HQ in Dallas. I hope they were treated like Kings while they were there, or at least Princes of Maine.
- Ken Robertson checks in after a noticeable absence with a description of the new automated Community Server license delivery system.
- Dave Burke no longer works for Telligent. Read the details and enter your favorite Blade Runner quote!
forum bits
- We've covered this before, but here's a great summary of the session timeout machinekey fix.
- Speaking of serving The MachineKey, here's an older but valuable reference bit on sharing CS login with another ASP.NET app from CS MVP David Voss.
- Ben Tiedt says we need to learn about the new CS2007 SubForm control, here in reference to adding new fields to the user profile. "Those two properties are on the user's profile, not the user's "user" record. You will need to create a SubForm control to extend the built-in CreateUserForm control. This new SubForm control can be defined in a separate assembly so that you do not need to modify the base CS assemblies, however, it will require code to be compiled."
- Ben Tiedt on the ThreadList Control. "The ThreadList control is a Chameleon "list control", which supports LeaderTemplate, HeaderTemplate, FooterTemplate, and TrailerTemplates. HeaderTemplates and FooterTemplates define the header and footer for the ItemTemplate and AlternatingItemTemplate, whereas the LeaderTemplate and TrailerTemplate define markup in which to wrap the content of the control. The HeaderTemplate and FooterTemplate can be left unrendered when no items are displayed in the list by setting the ShowHeaderFooterOnNone property to false, however, the LeaderTemplate and TrailerTemplate will always render if the control renders."
- TommyWeather with the process of upgrading a CS 2.1 site to CS2007.
- Old-time photo gallery fans rejoice now that photos are sortable by the QueryOverride SortBy property directly on the .ASCX control.
- A great tip from Dan Bartels on reviving the old SendToFriend gallery function as an e-Postcard function.
- Maybe its just me, but I think turning off the CS Metatag generator is a bit EXTREMO. I'm darn proud of MY <meta name="GENERATOR" content="CommunityServer 2007 Beta 2 (Build: 20321.714)" /> tag, thank you very much.
- Ben Tiedt tells us that the HtmlScrubber in CS2007 has been updated to perform some XHTML-related processing, including making tag names and attributes lowecase, ensuring that attribute values are enclosed in double-quotes, ensuring that attribute values are HTML-encoded and auto-closing self-contained tags. Cool!
- A thread on Theming Header Options has tranformed into an unofficial CS MVP nominating channel. TommyWeather and Bill Bosacker are strong future CS MVP candidates. The latest analysis reports that TommyWeather continues to resist the nomination, Bill Bosacker remains the Strong Silent candidate, and Barack Obama is the top CS MVP fundraiser.
- The CSGallery SlideShowPro control now works on the homepage in CS2007. Ben Tiedt provides the SiteUrls_override.config that makes it happen. I got this to work, but only for all gallery pictures, which is what Ben says it supports. It's very cool that this now works in CS2007, but the best slideshow solution is probably still found outside of CS for those looking.
- Ben Tiedt with a very slick trick on how to display tags in a scrollable area.