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  • On Community Server Modal Window Styling

    I was working on a Community Server site-in-progress recently, so the out-of-box theme files encountered some initial experimentation before I applied my gentle carress. Not a problem-o, but Community Server Modal Windows took a hit. I was doing an application mod and my Modal Window header and footers were gone! Transparent. Non-existent. I had these funky popup windows that were DOP (Dead On Popup.) So a few bits on Community Server modal (popup) windows are in order. First, the style settings...
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  • CS Nuglet: Extending master.Master

    The more I work with Ben Tiedt's excellent Community Server Chameleon architecture for controlling page display the more I groove on it. I can't believe the guy uses a MacBook... Anyway, here's a nuglet describing how I extended the Community Server Master.master file on a client site over the weekend to control its output based on the application. Let's say you have a footer that you only want to show on all site areas except the forums area. Rather than creating a new common/.Master...
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  • CS Nuglet: The trick to displaying Community Server Tree contents alphabetically

    You can play as much as you want to drag and drop the contents of tree controls exactly how you want them in the Control Panel. It doesn't work, nor has ever worked. Forum lists, too. These are actually sweet controls, but sorting isn't in their interactive UI lexicon. To sort a File Gallery or other tree-based Community Server control use the Chameleon SortBy property on the web page. Here's an example: <li class="DBVTTreeListItem"> <CSFile:GroupData ID="GroupData1"...
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  • First Impressions on Professional Visual Studio Extensibility

    Three weeks ago I announced the official availability of my Professional Visual Studio Extensibility book. Now after these three weeks I've received some initial feedbacks and community reactions about the book that let me give some initial impressions about it. In this short while, book has been made available on more online booksellers and I think that it's now available everywhere. None of the readers have been able to finish the book (or at least I haven't hear about anyone yet) but...
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  • Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Vegas 2

    We're passing our new year holidays here. This holiday was a good opportunity for me to work on some projects and have fun with some interests. One of the funny things that I always enjoy it so much is playing video games on my Xbox 360 console. Two weeks ago Ubisoft released the second part of Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Vegas to markets and I just got it last week. You would know that this game is one of my favorite games forever and I loved the first part . A few hours ago I finished the...
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  • The .NET Community - Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow

    A few days ago Dan Hounshell wrote a nice post with some notes about the state of ASP.NET community and some facts about it. While I completely agree with his notes and most likely have same opinions as him, I just want to complement his post and add a few notes about the .NET community and generally Microsoft community. Of course, like Dan, I'm not very familiar with other communities to judge about them and I speak based on my general perspectives so forgive me if I stated something wrong about...
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  • Community Server 2008 Beta 2

    A few minutes ago Rob Howard announced the Beta 2 of Community Server 2008 on Telligent blog. You can download three different installers for this version on Community Server site including the web installer , Windows installer and upgrade installer (and probably you know that Telligent doesn't make the SDK and source code available until RTW). I had written about this before and referred to some posts by Telligent leaders about their main goal in Community Server 2008 for enhanced social networking...
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  • How to Log Specific Event Types in a Custom ASP.NET Web Event Provider

    My regular visitors and subscribers would remember that I've been one of the guys who had a dive deep into the topic of built-in ASP.NET Health Monitoring feature. I had a blog post that described health monitoring in ASP.NET in details and also had a an article about writing a custom web event provider for ASP.NET on DotNetSlackers. Health monitoring is one of the very cool features included in ASP.NET and I've been using it for a long while. As time goes, I find some points about this feature...
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  • PasswordStrength in ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit

    ASP.NET AJAX control toolkit is a great set of helpful controls for ASP.NET AJAX. Usually many of these controls aren't covered in books and articles most likely because their usage is simple. However, yesterday I was playing with PasswordStrength control included in ASP.NET AJAX control toolkit to use it in a project and thought it would be good to write a descriptive post about it since there is only one resource about this control which is its sample on ASP.NET site . PasswordStrength is a...
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  • Working with Chameleon Group Controls

    I always jump at the chance to work with Community Server Chameleon Group controls, as they are powerful, flexible and fun! An example of a Chameleon Group control out of the box is the display of blogs by blog group as shown here at communityserver.org. Chameleon Group controls provide context for the Post List Control displayed within the group as well as additional metadata that can customize the Post List Control's behavior. In this post I'm going to focus on context and how the group...
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  • ASP.NET MVC Source Code

    A few minutes ago Scott Guthrie announced something very cool about ASP.NET MVC Framework and it's the availability of ASP.NET MVC source code on a CodePlex project . As Scott says, this is a part of their roadmap and strategy for ASP.NET MVC framework and its future and can help the community get their hands on the latest builds sooner than ever and know what's going on behind the scenes. Scott shortly talks about building the ASP.NET MVC solution in Visual Studio 2008 to use it and gives...
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  • Links for 2008-03-20 [del.icio.us]

    LINQ - The Uber FindControl - David Findley's Blog

  • Performance Effect of Common Table Expressions in SQL Server 2005

    One of my recent blog posts was about a tip to use TOP clause to reduce locks for DELETE and UPDATE commands in SQL Server 2005 . Such performance tips are very interesting for myself and I love to learn them because they can't be find easily on many official resources such as books or articles. Another performance tip (or concept) that I'm going to cover in this post is the usage of Common Table Expressions in SQL Server 2005 that may improve the performance of your code significantly. As...
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  • Links for 2008-03-19 [del.icio.us]

    Mircea Trofin's blog : LINQ Framework Design Guidelines ASP.NET MVC: Building Web Apps without Web Forms F# Primer: Use Functional Programming Techniques in the .NET Framework

  • The Migrator Project - The WebWizForums Migration

    I've just posted a new webcast showing off both the Migrator Wizard, the WebWizForums Provider and the Community Server Provider. Check it out on http://www.nbdev.co.uk/Videos/3599.aspx . It's taken a long time. But the migrator's 1st migration (test) was completed this afternoon, and was successful. If your luck the CS provider will have the blogs added to it, and a WordPress provider released by April 20th. If your lucky. Anyhow, enjoy. The WebWiz Forums provider is one way at the moment...
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