Dave Burke - Community Server Byte for January 3, 2007

Community Server Byte for January 3, 2007

blog bits

Keyvan Nayyeri with the year's first CS Developer Guide covering all-things Avatar. Cool, it looks like the K-man is going to go through the Community Server API alphabetically for 2007! What will be the "B" API topic, I wonder? :-)
Dave Burke with a simple .DLL/.ASPX drop with source to generate a member list with user full names and email addresses. The page creates an ASCII-delimited list for copy-and-pasting into some other app. Interesting primarily because the user full name is an extended user property stored in the key/value items located in the cs_UserProfile PropertyNames/PropertyValues fields.

forum bits

ASP.NET code for adding an UserAvatar control from Gary McPherson. <CS:UserAvatar runat="server" User = "<%# Users.FindUserByUsername (((Forum)Container.DataItem).MostRecentPostAuthor) %>" />
Quick User object grab-and-go from the CommunityServerGuy with additional information on displaying the User Avatar imageUrl.
Setting the width of the page title image by changing the CommonTitleBarImage CSS style class, from CommunityServerGuy.
Using the open source UrlRewritingNet.UrlRewrite component with Community Server.
Bill Bosacker with the step-by-step process of enabling and setting user avatars with bonus info on how to format sidebar boxes with those pretty CommonSidebarArea and CommonSidebarHeader elements.
Garthilk, Genyus. Genyus, Garthilk. Uma, Oprah, Oprah... A post on Community Server viability and investment. Garthilk, "That said, someday I'll make the move to CS. Soon as I'm rich enough and as soon as I learn programming." Genyus, "For a product that's yet to see it's 2nd birthday, Community Server has made some pretty impressive advances so far..."
Programmers Wanted, Job Opportunity. No immediate responders, which ara.avvali finds amazing. The Genyus, "Demand for Community Server development and customisation services is currently outstripping supply."
Rich Bryant on how he configured his domain cookie settings to support a root business CS site and a personal CS site in a subfolder. "It took resetting the domain tag in the domain on the root from specific (domain = "mydomain.net" ) to general (domain="") while leaving the subdomain as specific (domain = "subdomain.mydomain.net")."
Styx and Logik! remind us to switch to grid view in the blogs administration panel to add mirrored blog feeds. I add a pic to demonstrate, since it took me a bit to see the problem.
The Genyus on using ampersands in the SiteUrls.config (which applies to most if not all other CS configuration files.)