Community Server 2008 Hack-a-thon

One of the fun benefits of working for Telligent is the ability to participate in regular "hack-a-thon" contests. These contests usually involve working with a new feature or product and result in great prizes! Last week, while the Community...

What is a Good Online Video Service for Screencasts?

I'd like to start posting more video-based demonstrations and walk-throughs of theming and customizing Community Server , but I don't really want to store the videos on my shared web host (and pay for storage and bandwidth). What is a good online...

Community Server 2008 - Groups Overview

Community Server 2008 includes a new feature, Groups. Groups are miniature community sites within the larger community site, similar to Google- or Yahoo-groups. Each Group has its own content, membership, and permissions. What's in a Group? A group...

Featured Posts

"Professional Community Server Themes" Now Available!

It appears that online booksellers such as Amazon.com and Barnes and Noble now report " Professional Community Server Themes " as being "In...
Published October 31, 2007

A Very Simple 1 to 3 Column XHTML/CSS Layout with Table-like Behavior

I'm working on some new themes for Community Server 2007 and wanted to get rid of the table-based layout used in the current default theme. The problem...
Published March 27, 2007

Community Server 2008 - Notes, Changes, and New Features

As announced earlier today , Community Server 2008 is now available ! CS2008 includes many exciting new features: embedded video and audio, real friend...
Published April 15, 2008

Creating New Themes in CS2007

I just received a request via email to provide the quick steps to getting started with a new Chameleon-based theme in CS2007--so, here it is. To setup...
Published February 15, 2007

Introduction to Chameleon

Over the past several months, I’ve been working pretty constantly on developing the new theming engine for Community Server 2007, named Chameleon. Chameleon...
Published January 8, 2007

Recent Comments

on 12-10-2008 9:19 AM
Sorry for double posting abvoe. Didn't get any indication that my first posting was send. I am using the CS 2008 SP1 SDK.
on 12-10-2008 8:03 AM
J-O Eriksson -- The value *will* not be correct during AttachChildControls because the postback data has not yet been loaded. Which version of CS are you...
on 12-10-2008 6:22 AM
Thanks Ben! Tried you suggestion! But even after the first row in the method (FindControl) the dropdown is reset to its first value.
on 12-10-2008 6:18 AM
Thanks Ben! Tried your suggestion! But already after: // find the DropDownList that will contain car brands this.CarBrandsDropDownList = CSControlUtility...
on 12-08-2008 2:16 PM
In the example above, remove the following lines from the AttachChildControls() method: // retrieve the current selected value string selectedValue = this...
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