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As some of you might already have seen, the Community Server MVP's CSModule pack has a new release. The new package is called Cinnabar, and is targeted for CS 2007. So if you want to use your favorite CSModule pack on your new upgraded to CS 2007 site this is the package to download. It also has...
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Sometimes there might be a need to add your users to different roles, depending on certain invitations, at registration time. Is that possible in Community Server (CS)? Well, in this case CSModules can be your friend as in many other situations. The other day there was a request for this functionality...
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Do you have any forums posts that have been caught by a spam rule? Or do you have any forums posts that haven't been approved for other reasons? It's not easy to know unless you frequently visit your Control Panel -> Forums to Moderate . I have had sites where I discovered posts that were several...
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I happened to browse to CodePlex today. Haven't been there for ages. They have updated their interface in many areas. One cool thing that caught my interest was that I now can browse the source code of a project without having to download and load it in Visual Studio. Great! For example, here's a look...
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Whether you are a developer, or a Community Server admin that haven't got much experience of .NET Development, I believe you should benefit from this article. This article gives you an overview of what CSModules are, how can you benefit from them, and also a collection of resources to find out more,...
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Just installed Ben Tiedt's Wikipedia Link Module . A CSModule that lets you add highlighted, clickable words to your posts, that when clicked shows a little pop-up with an excerpt on that word from Wikipedia. I have played with this module before, but had forgotten that it existed. . A great and useful...
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A member of my Swedish CS community has been using Wordpress for his blog for a while. Now he's planning to move to Community Server . One of the things he used with Wordpress was a control that let him add kind of external tag links to the bottom of his posts. He wondered if I knew of any such control...
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I created a Visual Studio 2005 template for my own use when creating CSModules. The template contains the base line code that you need for creating a basic CSModule, and some basic instruction on what you need to get going. In case someone else would find it useful, I have uploaded it to my downloads...
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I've been quiet for a couple of days. So what have I done? Nothing? Well, I have done something! I have been continuing my work on an add-on for forcing users to change passwords after a admin configurable period. It's currently a CSJob, which I found wasn't that easy to debug. But I believe...
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A quick note that I just updated MSN Soapbox CSModule to a new version. Got a comment from Michael S. Scherotter that he had got a mail from MSN that they've updated the embed code for better performance. So I have updated the CSModule to use the new embed code. Also I noticed that I introduced a...
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When I posted my update regarding the SoapBox CSModule this weekend, I must have been a bit confused. I said I made 2 changes, but realized now that one of those changes was already in the first version. What I mean is the functionality to set a custom message for syndicated feeds. It was already there...
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Just a note that I updated the MSN Soapbox CSModule to a new version, and that it's available for download . If you previously downloaded this CSModule (before today), just download the new file and replace your current DLL in your BIN directory. So what generated the update? In the first version, I...
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In certain situations, for different reasons, there might be a need for increased auditing of what happens in Community Server . The CS Eventlog is there today and logs different events. In a the CS forums the question came up from a member , if it is possible to audit who creates a user in a forum....
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Last Friday I posted about a new CSModule that I had just created for showing MSN SoapBox videos in Community Server . Inspired by Gary McPherson's YouTube CSModule which is included in the Alabaster CSModule Package, and by looking through the source code of Ken Robertson's Qgyen.Lightbox CSModule...
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Have you seen the New MSN SoapBox ? It's like MSN's answer to YouTube. You can upload your videos, comment rate etc videos. From what I've seen of it so far it seems a pretty cool site. And if it's a cool site, you need to be able to integrate it to a cool application like Community Server . So, I put...