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Copying Theme Configuration and Widget Layouts
If you are running the new Telligent Community 5 (formerly known as Community Server 5 or CS5) or the new Telligent Enterprise 2 (formerly known as Community Server Evolution 2 or Evo2) and need to move your dynamic theme configurations and changes between Read More...

Using the Telligent.Tasks service to send CommunityServer Emails
Telligent has a Windows Service job which can be run to offload some of the Tasks / Job processing from your web server... The most common configuration is to use the task server for running the Enterprise Search Indexing jobs, although you could use Read More...
Attachment(s): Telligent.Tasks.CommunityServer.zip

CS Membership for the Membershipless
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 Read More...
Attachment(s): Generate Local Membership.SQL

Integrating Graffiti Logins with an asp.net datastore (like CommunityServer)
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 Read More...

CS REST in Javascript
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 Read More...

Color outside the lines with the CS API
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 Read More...
Attachment(s): DanBartels.CS.REST_5.0.30430.zip

ScriptResource.axd Time Sensative
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 Read More...

Kevin Harder Live Blogging the CSDC
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 Read More...

Extracting ExtendedAttributes via SQL
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. Read More...

Show your CS2007 stuff and Win
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 Read More...

Join Us - Community Server team has open positions
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 Read More...

Fixing Non-Relative Urls in Posts
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 Read More...

Allowing users to upload photos to your gallery
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 Read More...

CS 2.1 support for unpublished photos
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 Read More...

CS 2.1 support for gallery datastore storage
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 Read More...
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