Bill Bosacker & CS Nuggets

Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1 Released

Bill Bosacker — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 01:43:00 GMT

Service pack 1 for Visual Studio 2008 (all versions), MSDN Library for Visual Studio 2008, and Visual Studio Team System 2008 Team Foundation Server have been released today. If you have an MSDN subscription you can download all of them from the download...( read more ) Read More......(read more)

CS2008: Code base issues

CS Nuggets — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 16:18:00 GMT

Hey All, I've been running into some rather significant issues with CS2008 since I started the process of updating all the code that I had written for CS2007 and prior, to work with CS2008. A lot of code is either just missing from the code base,...( read more ) Read More......(read more)

Invisible CAPTCHA added! Anonymous comments enabled!

Announcements — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 09:33:00 GMT

I've been wanting to enable anonymous comments for some time, but hadn't due to enormous amount of BLOG spam that is being generated. I had considered using a CAPTCHA scheme with images, but it usually turns out to be more of a nusence to users...( read more ) Read More......(read more)

CS2008: Good news for .NET Community Program sites

CS Nuggets — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 00:30:00 GMT

Last night I sent Rob Howard an email about some concerns that I had with Community Server, one of them being the .NET Community Program. As for this concern, here is his response: "The “.NET Community Program” absolutely still exists. I’m sorry...( read more ) Read More......(read more)

Bluetooth for Windows Server 2008

Bill Bosacker — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 19:14:00 GMT

Microsoft in it's infinite wisdom has decided that Bluetooth is not for servers. I ask, what about voice mail systems, developer workstations, and whatever else the user needs it for? Well, the post Installing the Microsoft Bluetooth Stack on Windows...( read more ) Read More......(read more)

Wanted: Massage Therapist

Bill Bosacker — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 06:16:00 GMT

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CS2008: CFS: The deal breaker

CS Nuggets — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 18:30:00 GMT

When I first read about CFS a number of months ago and learned that objects are no longer going to be stored in the database, I thought, "What are these guys thinking." I knew that there going to be problems, and sure enough, there are. The...( read more ) Read More......(read more)

Update: Telco Issues

Announcements — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 00:25:00 GMT

AT&T came out and corrected some issues that were not correctly addressed when the lines were first installed. I need to monitor the lines very closely for the next couple of weeks, but it looks like this may be why the connections have been very...( read more ) Read More......(read more)

Telco Issues

Announcements — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 19:00:00 GMT

We are currently experiencing connection issues that AT&T is working on. Our connection to the Internet has been down about 95% of the time for the past 24 hours, but should be fully functional late Thursday, June 26, 2008. Take it easy, Bill...( read more ) Read More......(read more)

CS2008: The good news and the not so good news

CS Nuggets — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 00:39:00 GMT

Hey Everyone, It's been quite a while since I've had much news about CS as I've been working on other projects, but that should be changing for at least the next few months, which is part of the good news. I'm going to be working on a...( read more ) Read More......(read more)

Windows Server 2008: Data Execution Prevention (DEP)

Bill Bosacker — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 19:51:00 GMT

I believe that this software was first introduced to windows with Windows 2000 and used to default to "Turn on DEP for essential Windows programs and services only", but this has changed with Windows Vista Ultimate and Windows Server 2008. It...( read more ) Read More......(read more)

I upgraded my workstation to Windows Server 2008

Bill Bosacker — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 13:45:00 GMT

Well, it's been well over a year since I last rebuilt my workstation, so I decided to install Windows Server 2008 (WS2008) on it since more than 95% of the development that I do is based on IIS. I had toyed around with Vista Ultimate a few times,...( read more ) Read More......(read more)

CS SDK SqlDataProvider: Software Abstraction Layer

CS Nuggets — Wed, 28 May 2008 01:27:00 GMT

Anyone who has looked at the SqlDataProvider project in the SDK has probably asked themselves, "What were they smoking when they designed this?" I don't know if Rob Howard is the creator of this technology, but he is one of the major influences...( read more ) Read More......(read more)

CS2008: Released! What does that mean?

CS Nuggets — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 16:45:00 GMT

Community Server 2008 is a major upgrade and change in how Telligent is doing business. The audience for Community Server is changing slightly as it really is no longer a good fit for very small communities, especially if you need features that are not...( read more ) Read More......(read more)

CS2008: Update

CS Nuggets — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 00:50:00 GMT

Hey All, The final release of Community Server 2008 is slowly aproaching, which means rebuilds / reworks of existing addons. I will be reworking the Calendar Control slightly to make it work better and be a little more flexable. The project that I'm...( read more ) Read More......(read more)

Updated to CS 2007.1 and converted to VS 2008

Announcements — Tue, 01 Jan 2008 21:37:00 GMT

I converted the Community Server solution to Visual Studio 2008 a couple weeks, which went without any hitches, but I waited until this weekend to update the application to CS 2007.1 as I knew that that would not be as easy. This was more than a patch...( read more ) Read More......(read more)

Name Change: CMSLive.NET

Announcements — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 02:17:00 GMT

Due to the fact that another project is using the CMS.NET name and that the domain is also taken, it was decided that a different name for the project should be used. We considered several different names and the availability of domain names, before stumbling...( read more ) Read More......(read more)

Security: FUN FUN FUN!

Bill Bosacker — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 01:34:00 GMT

Hey All, I thought that I should probably let everyone know that I'm still around, just extremely busy. As some of you I've been working on a credit reporting web site, in particular, the security system. I started with the sample .NET Membership...( read more ) Read More......(read more)

New Amatuer Photogrpahy Site

Bill Bosacker — Sat, 07 Jul 2007 05:09:00 GMT

Hey Guys, I've been wanting to post the thousands of pictures that I have taken over the years and never really had a good platform to do this until I started using Community Server, which is the software that this site is running on. So tonight,...( read more ) Read More......(read more)

Community Server 2007 Service Pack 2 Installed

Announcements — Sun, 17 Jun 2007 06:35:00 GMT

Telligent released SP2 on June 12th and I just finished installing the update. If you notice anything that was working before and currently isn't, let me know....( read more ) Read More......(read more)

CS2007: What features would you like to see in the Event Calendar control?

CS Nuggets — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 03:22:00 GMT

Ok, I just created the forum thread, What features would you like to see in the Event Calendar control? I'd like everyone to chime in here. Most of the requests will most likely only be possible in the commercial version of the control, but if I can...( read more ) Read More......(read more)

CS2007: Temporary Bug Fix for Forum Posts

CS Nuggets — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 01:47:00 GMT

There is a bug in CS 2007 where many of the properties of a forum post are not set prior to executing the post events. If you are using the SDK, you can make the following changes yourself to correct the issue until Telligent is able to provide a patch...( read more ) Read More......(read more)

CS2007: API Bug & Calendar Update

CS Nuggets — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 04:10:00 GMT

A bug in the CS 2007 API was discovered tonight. When saving an edited forum post, incorrect information is passed to addon modules which makes it impossible to update the calendar and causes the application to crash if the post being saved contains a...( read more ) Read More......(read more)

CS2007: Event Calendar Features

CS Nuggets — Sat, 02 Jun 2007 03:01:00 GMT

To use this control, you will need to place the following register line at the top of your page: <%@ Register TagPrefix="WGB" Namespace="WGB.CSAddons.Controls" Assembly="WGB.CSAddons" %> Here is a typical use of the...( read more ) Read More......(read more)

CS2007: Event Calendar Released!

CS Nuggets — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 02:47:00 GMT

NOTICE: Only registered users are allowed to post and download, so don't forget to register . Well, its finally ready. The Community Server 2007 Event Calendar add-on is available for download. If you have any problems with the installation, please...( read more ) Read More......(read more)