CS Nuggets

Replacement for CS and Graffiti

Bill Bosacker — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 08:57:00 GMT

Hey Guys, I wanted to let everyone know that I have found a replacement for Community Server and Graffiti CMS, so there is absolutely no reason to put up with Telligent anymore. The product is Sitefinity from Telerik . It is a full fledged CMS that that...(read more)

Almost 2 years later, and still no solution in sight for small to mid sized communities...

Bill Bosacker — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 18:00:00 GMT

Telligent has completely failed the small to mid sized communities. The original promise was for Graffiti CMS to take over this roll, but it is now almost 2 years later and there is still no solution in sight to replace CS 2007 for these communities....(read more)

.NET Tweeks

Bill Bosacker — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 22:03:00 GMT

The latest .NET Tweeks post is now out and is the first of a multi-part series of Tweeks that developers can use in their everyday development of ASP.NET applications. This week it covers the PageBase idea and how to integrate it with master pages. Next...(read more)

CS2008: This blog is now WIDER!

Bill Bosacker — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 22:44:00 GMT

I haven't been happy with the crappy width that this blog had, but I didn't want to widen the width of the header image and ruin the aspect ratio. Well, I decided to go ahead and do it anyway. If I hadn't told you that I had widened the pictures...(read more)

CS2008: SP2 issues

Bill Bosacker — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 20:39:00 GMT

If you've upgraded to SP2, you may have noticed that some previous issues have resurfaced. The patch that I wrote to allow the file storage location to relative to the application, and go outside of the application, no longer works as written due...(read more)

CS 2009 Pricing

Bill Bosacker — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 18:44:00 GMT

Some one forwarded a link to the Community Server 2009: Final Thoughts on Role, Pricing and Adoption article to me today and I nearly fell out of my chair. Here is a snip from that post: Community Server Licensing (updated June, 2009) : Annual (CPU-based...(read more)

CS2008: CFS and the removal of BLOBs from the database. The unbelievable blunder!

Bill Bosacker — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 01:28:00 GMT

Back in June of 2008 I wrote CS2008: CFS: The deal breaker where I talk about why removing all BLOBs from the database was a HUGE mistake, and here is why: FILESTREAM Storage in SQL Server 2008 By removing BLOBs from the database you open up the problem...(read more)

Custom themes and source control

Bill Bosacker — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 06:42:00 GMT

After reading Breaking Themes in 2008.5 upgrade by Chris Shawn, I had an epiphany when I started to think about how I had setup the CS SDK in my TFS store. You will be able to do this with any of the major commercial source control applications (i.e....(read more)

CS2008: A first look at the CS2008.5 SDK

Bill Bosacker — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 19:13:00 GMT

From a user POV, CS2008.5 is just a bunch of bug fixes with the addition of a new application type, Wikis. But, this is a major step for developers. Here is a cursory list of the changes: The SDK has been converted to Visual Studio 2008, but it appears...(read more)

CS2008: Code base issues

Bill Bosacker — 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)

CS2008: Good news for .NET Community Program sites

Bill Bosacker — 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)

CS2008: CFS: The deal breaker

Bill Bosacker — 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 were going to be problems, and sure enough, there are...(read more)

CS2008: The good news and the not so good news

Bill Bosacker — 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)

CS SDK SqlDataProvider: Software Abstraction Layer

Bill Bosacker — 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)

CS2008: Released! What does that mean?

Bill Bosacker — 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)

CS2008: Update

Bill Bosacker — 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)

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

Bill Bosacker — 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)

CS2007: Temporary Bug Fix for Forum Posts

Bill Bosacker — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 01:47:00 GMT

UPDATE 06/12/2007: Telligent has released SP2 for CS 2007 which contains this fix. 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...(read more)

CS2007: API Bug & Calendar Update

Bill Bosacker — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 04:10:00 GMT

UPDATE 06/12/2007: Telligent has released SP2 for CS 2007 which contains this fix. UPDATE 06/07/2007: Read CS2007: Temporary Bug Fix for Forum Posts . A bug in the CS 2007 API was discovered tonight. When saving an edited forum post, incorrect information...(read more)

CS2007: Event Calendar Features

Bill Bosacker — Sat, 02 Jun 2007 03:01:00 GMT

UPDATE 06/05/2007 : Added support for tags in the form of , added the change to the resources.xml file that was left out, and changed the formatting of dates to require MM/DD/YYYY . Leading zeros are no longer optional. To use this control, you will need...(read more)

CS2007: Event Calendar Released!

Bill Bosacker — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 02:47:00 GMT

NOTICE: Only registered users are allowed to post and download, so don't forget to register . PACKAGE UPDATED 06/05/2007 21:10 PT: The readme instructions have been updated to list a change to the resources.xml file that was left out. Support for...(read more)

CS2007: Calendar Control status update

Bill Bosacker — Wed, 30 May 2007 04:31:00 GMT

UPDATE: CS2007: Event Calendar Released! and CS2007: Event Calendar Features Since Dan Bartels released a CS 2007 version of his control yesteday, I decided to post a status update. I've been working hard to get the new Chameleon Control finished...(read more)

CS2007: Calendar Control in test phase

Bill Bosacker — Fri, 18 May 2007 04:09:00 GMT

UPDATE: CS2007: Event Calendar Released! and CS2007: Event Calendar Features Well, as of just a few minutes ago, I finally got the control working. I still need to do some testing and cleanup, but I have enabled it for use on all of my sites. In about...(read more)

CS2007: Teaser: Calendar: COMING SOON!

Bill Bosacker — Wed, 16 May 2007 23:28:00 GMT

UPDATE: CS2007: Event Calendar Released! and CS2007: Event Calendar Features The title says it all. Thanks to Reflector and Dan Bartels' Calendar addon, there will be 2 releases. The first being a CS 2007 version of the control that is backward compatable...(read more)

CS2007: BUG & FIX: BBCodes and Emoticons

Bill Bosacker — Mon, 30 Apr 2007 06:43:00 GMT

This bug is a carry over from CS 2.x which improperly handles BBCodes and Emoticons. You can see this on the communityserver.org site. Every so often you will see a post with smilies that seem out of place, or you may be trying to use BBCodes and they...(read more)