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- Bug Blasting Bruiser Bill Bosacker discovers that "the properties of the IContent object when cast as a Post object are not properly populated." Or in language the rest of us can understand, forum post properties are screwy after a post has been edited. Jose and Wyatt are on the case with a fix in the next Service Pack. Bill provides the code solution on his blog.
- Ben on how to retrieve individual posts in separate page areas, like on 3 different panels serving as content rotators. "I would like to have the 1st panel show just the 1st post from the list, 2nd panel show the 2nd post, 3rd panel show the 3rd post." Chameleon Cool, or as Dan Hounshell would say, "BadAss!"
- Wyatt's been doing fun things with MP3 files in CS for quite a while now. Here he shows how (and includes the code and a screenshot) to have an mp3 linklist, with each mp3 wrapped in its own nifty media player.
- Wyatt demonstrates how to add a new SuccessAction property to the CreateUserForm using CS2007's new SubForms architecture. SubForms, they're what's for dinner!
- I'll have to agree with Spotnick's assessment of the CS2007 SDK being well hidden on cs.org. I've downloaded the SDK about 10 times now and I have to look for it each darn time.
- Ben supplies a SiteUrls_Override.config to support Chris's multi-blogs at the root configuration. "http://xboxbloggers.net/nanozune works, as does http://xboxbloggers.net/craign which is exactly what I want, but the default home page of the site displays the blogs home page, or http://xbobloggers.net/blogs. I want to have the site home page but keep the URLs as they currently are."
- Shakes provides an explanation along with the code on how he added a description and random thumbnail to the CS2007 Gallery List page.
- The Wizard to the rescue. Mark's "Whitespace is not allowed" error knocking his forums offline was due to users with "&'s" in their username. I hope this confirms that ampersands have no redeeming qualities.
- Jose with a SQL script to retrieve user points based on role. He also makes an excellent point that with Morpheus it can't be assumed that you can link between cs_ and aspnet_ tables in queries, since aspnet_ tables can now be located in another database.
- Andre V with an interesting problem with inline Ad Controls not displaying, resolved only after removing the contentpart record from the database, thanks to a smart suggestion from Ben. I wouldn't have thought of that, but it's something to remember.
- I'm following Brooks' lead and giving ISAPI_Rewrite a shout-out for preserving links after a migration. I know ScottW has blogged about it before, which is another reason it deserves a CS Bit permalink.
- Some sort of weird bug has surfaced in CS2007 causing the message area of a forum thread in tree view to keep refreshing without displaying the post. Wyatt responds with the code to fix it for pre-CS2007 SP2 inclusion. Palmstrom had to step up to report the bug, since Bosacker was obviously asleep at the switch.
- Alfanexus is looking for a CS Themer. Chuck is looking for a CS Modder. Momma is looking for a squeeze box to play all night long.
- Comments are displayed on the home page "What's New" section in CS2007. I haven't seen this acknowledged as a bug, but I assume it is. I used Jrenter's fix shown here earlier this week and it's 90% of the way there. An ItemTemplate element is missing and most of the OnInit(EventArgs e) page script method code has to go, but its the best solution I've seen to remove the "RE:" from your home page.
- I don't know about you, but I seem to spend a lot of time theming Control Panels. They are themable, of course, and the situation has improved over CS 2.1 where they no longer inherit from the sitewide themes. CP Masters can be found in the /controlpanel/masters folder.
- The ASPnix post-Wizard era continues on its foibled course, as reported here by Texask. It sounds like even a shared hosted account on GoDaddy would be dreamy in comparison.
- Jose describes a late summer release of CS that includes Hubs, with each Hub user having team access to blogs and other objects in a non-role based model.