Community Server
An area to discuss the Tool, my implimentation, and modifications.
(available from Telligent Systems)
From time to time I find myself pulling down a live Community Server database for testing. When the database also has a remote membership system it can be very time consuming to try to download and configure both a CS database and a Membership system
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Attachment(s): Generate Local Membership.SQL
As announced way back at CSDC 07 ( http :// kevinharder .com/ blog /live- blogging -the- csdc -part-3/ ) graffiti was designed to be able to integrate directly with an existing asp.net membership store... the key is in the configuration.... So first thing
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CS Rest Endpoints return XML, but JSON is much cooler for working with the data in javascript, you can get the results back in JSON and actually iterate through collections and such... To convert the data to JSON, in leu of server calls to do this, Thomas
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With the release of CS2008, we have released the REST webservice code for the first time... This webservice has a client API which is used by the server, and actually is in the bin folder of your CS site... CommunityServer.WebServices.dll. Referencing
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Attachment(s): DanBartels.CS.REST_5.0.30430.zip
In CS 2008 we have our javascript files linked through the scriptresource . axd handler. This is very similar to the webresource . axd handler in that it serves content from within a dll . The gotcha is that the scriptresource handler will throw an exception
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We are having an awesome time at the Community Server Developers conference, developers from around the country world have converged to hear about the future and direction of Telligent development. Kevin Harder has been blogging the event for those who
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In Community Server, several of our classes derive from the ExtendedAttributes class. This class creates a list of name value pairs on the class, and is picked off by our data layer and stored into two NTEXT columns in the table, PropertyNames, and PropertyValues.
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Telligent is having a little contest to see who can build the best theme for CS... There are a couple of contests actually, one showcasing our new theme / markup system for full site themes, and another to creatively use the "export" option of our dynamic
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Come and join this outstanding team. We are looking to fill two spots at the moment... A Community Server Specialist; a developer familiarity with CS, C# and ASP.NET and a Client Side Guru, someone who can help us take our XHTML / CSS / Javascript to
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One of the challenges with the TinyMCE (as I recall we had this same issue with FreeTextBox) is relative urls .. In CS because we are in a control panel, making posts which can be viewed on various parts of the site, it can be difficult for the site to
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Its finally here, a control which you can put in the public sidebar of your gallery, to allow users to add photos to the gallery.... Further, it can override the CS permissions, allowing users, even anonymous users to contribute without needing to give
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So I have a very cool gallery mod, I am about to release, but it relies on a late add feature to CS 2.1, unpublished posts. I took the idea from blogs, and added support for unpublishing posts, and while the control panel mechanics are there and work
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It looks like we ended up breaking the DataStore only option for original images in the gallery... While this is a relatively uncommon configuration, a college (Gerry Tierney @ Microsoft) sent me over a heads up on the cause. In a few places, we reference
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I get a fair amount of comment spam; the CS spam I am using filters caught about 14,000 spam comments in the last two weeks (missed about a dozen)... It always bothers me though the terrible amount of bandwidth and database space used by these spam comments...
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Earlier this year, Microsoft wowed us by adding support to publish blog posts directly from Word 2007 , later in August, Microsoft dropped a beta of their Live Writer tool, Live Writer is a windows client tool, which can publish blog posts to any blogging
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