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  • 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 can contain a single blog, single media gallery...
    Published May 5, 2008

  • Community Server 2008 - Implementing Custom File Viewers

    File viewers are the unsung heroes that make Community Server 2008 media-friendly. They implement the support for viewing and resizing images, viewing uploaded and remote video files, viewing video from online video services, and playing uploaded and remote audio clips. Without file viewers, the media...
    Published April 23, 2008

  • Improved Chameleon Documentation for Community Server 2008

    The updates to the official documentation sites are still a little way out, so, in the meantime, I've gotten permission to post the new, improved Chameleon control documentation on this site. Here it is: CS2008 Chameleon Documentation The new Chameleon documentation merges the old CHM download file...
    Published April 21, 2008

  • Community Server 2008 - How to Implement Custom Widgets

    After adding support for widgets in custom themes , it may be useful to create a few custom widgets. Widgets in Community Server 2008 (internally identified as content fragments) are server-side .net classes implementing the CommunityServer.Components.IContentFragment interface. Community Server will...
    Published April 21, 2008

  • Extending User Registration using Sub-Forms

    A common Community Server customization involves adding fields to the registration form (CreateUserForm control) and performing custom actions based on these fields. Chameleon provides an easy way to extend the CreateUserForm control by using Sub-Forms. Sub-Forms are controls that can be registered against...
    Published June 15, 2007

  • CS2007 Chameleon Base Classes

    For those of you diving into the Community Server 2007 SDK and learning about the inner workings of Chameleon to create custom controls , I thought it would be helpful to outline the base control classes available to Chameleon control developers. The list below outlines the base controls existing within...
    Published May 17, 2007

  • Adding New Themed Pages in CS2007

    To add a new page to a theme in CS2007, Add the page to SiteUrls_Override.config The SiteUrls.config file defines all of the rewritten URLs within Community Server. The SiteUrls_Override.config file within the root of the Community Server installation can be used to customize the base SiteUrls.config...
    Published May 14, 2007

  • Updates to Creating New Themes in CS2007

    I just wanted to point out that I made a few changes to the Creating New Themes in CS2007 post to highlight some common changes that will need to be made when copying the out-of-the-box site themes. The changes include notes to update the name and preview information of newly created themes and instructions...
    Published May 2, 2007

  • Chameleon Pager Controls

    One topic that could have been covered more in my Introduction to Chameleon posts is pager controls. Pager controls in Community Server 2007 are now completely customizable, interchangeable, groupable, and support some cool new features. As I mentioned when introducing list controls , most list controls...
    Published March 9, 2007

  • Introduction to Chameleon: Utility Controls

    This is a post in my blog series Introduction to Chameleon ... Chameleon includes a set of utility controls to help theme developers implement custom themes. In this post, I'll list and describe some of these utility controls. Some of the more notable utility controls include: ConditionalAction ...
    Published January 28, 2007
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