Dave Burke - Community Server Byte for March 28, 2007

Community Server Byte for March 28, 2007

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Telligenti Dan Hounshell adds ads (heh he) to his RSS feeds with a new CSModule and creates a new Ad affiliate service in the process, AdBlendr.com. Great name, Dan! (AdBlendr.com currently shows a blank page if you're looking for more info.) And, uhh YEAH, we'd love for you to post the RSS ad source!
Sean Winstead walks us through the process of employing Community Server Single Sign-On in reverse. That is, as Sean explains, to support sites who want membership to be handled by Community Server, but need their main website to determine whether the member is authenticated via User.Identity.IsAuthenticated and User.Identity.Name.
Scott Watermasysk announces that the Telligent product team has a developer opening. If you want to work with some of the best developers on the planet, primp that resume and send it to ScottW.
Dan Bartels with big news of unpublished photo support coming in the next CS 2.1 Service Pack and in CS2007, along with the source code changes for those who can't wait.
Bill Bosacker creates a new feed titled CS Nuggets. Bill said he knew "Dave Burke was reading this." You're right, Bill. Your IP is 11.12.123.234! Your ISP is Comcast Cable! You are running Windows XP and using Firefox! I'm watching you! (CS Forums readers will get the joke. :-)
Ben Tiedt comes up with "a very simple 1 to 3 column XHTML/CSS Layout with Table Behavior" using DIVs. "I'm working on some new themes for Community Server 2007 and wanted to get rid of the table-based layout used in the current default theme." I know there are guys going nuts hearing that CS2007 may no longer be using <Tables /> in its Master pages. They're out buying palm leaves this very instant to throw down under Ben's donkey.
Whodrun4 at the New Wilmington Mission Conference site uses an ASP.NET CompareValidator as a quick-n-dirty comment spam blocker. Nice!
Keyvan Nayyeri supersizes the Community Server Developer Guide offerings this week with a look at the Forums API.

forum bits

Ben Tiedt posts CS2007 code demonstrating how to hide the tag editing controls in the blog post editor based on user roles.
Based on this post from TommyWeather I guess it's safe to say that The Wizard Era at ASPnix is officially over. "I would recommend ASPnix as much as I would recommend getting a root canal without even having a cavity."
Jose Lema gives us another look at Morpheus capabilities. It "does *not* enable single sign-on scenarios." "Community Server no longer assumes that membership is stored within the same database, treating it like a black box instead." "Community Server 2007 ships with a set of interfaces that your custom membership provider could implement in order to support the needed extensions."
Nick McCollum posts the code he uses to trap the PostUserUpdate event to send new user information to another application.
Ben Tiedt shows how drop-dead simple it is to display blog excerpts instead of the full posts in a CS2007 aggregate blog post list. This is another example of how Ben is taking CS Theming from the realm of the Rocket Scientist to Everyman, and 60% of the Independent CS Developer's revenue in the process. Heh.
Ben Tiedt explains the function of the theme.config in CS2007 and how it works with DynamicStyle.aspx and the control panel "Change how my blog looks" page.
J-O Eriksson demonstrates casting a content object to a post to obtain the PostID in the PrePostUpdate and PostPostUpdate events with "Post wp = (Post)content;"
Mikevz77 removes script src="true" in the cs.config Markup which fixes a "Server Error in '/' Application" when creating blogs.
J-O Eriksson tips other non-english language pack developers who encounter an "Index (zero based) must be greater than or equal to zero" error that two arguments in the Resources.xml file have changed in CS2007.

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Posted on 3/28/2007 12:54:46 AM by Dave Burke
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3/28/2007 2:45:25 AM Permalink

Heya Dave, I'm glad you like my sig. I fell in luv with it when I first saw my EQ guild leader using it. The bottom line is customizable in a few different ways, but when I thought of putting "I'm watching you!" there I just didn't want anything else to show there. It's also a great tool for testing my network setup.