Dave Burke - Community Server Byte for March 8, 2007

Community Server Byte for March 8, 2007

blog bits

If you need to deploy localizable email templates, J-O Eriksson just saved you a ton of time and frustration. Another excellent tutorial from J-O.
Scott Watermasysk with part four in his ASP.NET Tips Series, following-up on State Management with Quick Tips on Caching in ASP.NET. Required reading for ASP.NET Developers.
Check out the updated member profile pages in Community Server 2007. I like how they now include the user badge. I see requests for MySpace type of profiles all the time and currently have a client whose paying good money to beef up their CS 2.1 site user profile pages, so it's an important community feature in my opinion.
Ben Tiedt gives us further understanding of how the Chameleon ConditionalContent control supplies IF-ELSE logic for ASP.NET markup. "If the ContentCondition evaluates to true, the content of the TrueContentTemplate is rendered, otherwise the FalseContentTemplate is rendered." See Ben's example.
Telligenti Dan Hounshell with a follow-up post on Ad Networks and Services, listing a whole bunch of Google Adsense alternatives if you're not a fan of Adsense (like me.)
Marco Shaw creates a PowerShell script that prints out the blog post titles and the RSS feed address to the post's comments.

forum bits

Bingo Bonzo shares the play-by-play of working through a site upgrade error and uncovers that nutty "Forums Parent Set to Itself" error. Bingo Bonzo's manifestation of incestual forum relations showed in the error, "A process serving application pool 'Classic .NET AppPool' suffered a fatal communication error with the Windows Process Activation Service. The process id was '7988'. The data field contains the error number. Event ID = 5011."
The Hive.net scroller came up in Gold Forums, and in the process of answering the question I came upon this Tiedt-Complete post from Ben on the WhoIsOnlineScroller control, which was built for Hive.net and included in CS 2.0 and 2.1.
Ben Tiedt describes the two sets of languages in Community Server - interface languages (controlled by web/languages) and content languages (such as specifying languages for forums and so forth supported from the filterLanguages cs.config region.)
"One is glad to be of service." For some time now Jose has unselfishly given his time to answer a ton of questions on the Community Server public forums. Many of those answers find their way to CS Bytes, too. I feel kind of bad though when I think how Jose must think he's going to outpost The Wizard someday. We love you, Jose, but that just ain't gonna happen.

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Posted on 3/8/2007 7:04:21 AM by Dave Burke
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3/8/2007 10:04:37 AM Permalink

Thanks for the shout-out Dave! Since the New Year, I've been trying to get on the forums on a daily basis, but you're right The Wizard is in a whole other league...then again, I'll settle for a daily high score every now and then