Dave Burke : Freelance .NET Web Developer specializing in Online Communities

Yeah, I know what I said, but transitions take time and I'm weak, unable to resist the urge to blog about the Community Server coding that continues to comprise most of my freelance workday.  An occasional Community Server riff will be the price we bare.  But at least we will bare it ... [More]

This is the post I promised when I moved to BlogEngine.NET on where my head's at with Community Server, so listen up.  It's been six weeks since I began marketing myself as a freelance .NET developer focusing on Open Source alternatives to Community Server.  Faithful to that change in focu... [More]

I'm going to describe the SQL Script I used to migrate from Community Server 2007 to BlogEngine.NET.  The complete script is available here, and as you'll see there's not very much to it. I walked through the script while writing up this post and successfully migrated a CS blog with it, but tak... [More]

I can't believe I never used this handy SQL function before.  I knew about it for a couple of years, but I never needed it.  When I was doing the import of my Community Server blog to BlogEngine.Net I knew I needed some help stripping out serialized data in the CS_Posts PropertyNames and P... [More]

I am very happy to announce the release of DBVT2008, the dawn of a new era at dbvt.com.  The biggest difference you'll find in DBVT2008 is no "Powered by [anything Telligent]" logos anywhere.  That's right.  No Community Server.  No Graffiti.  I am using strictly Open Source... [More]

Ben Tiedt's Chameleon is one of my favorite aspects of developing in Community Server.  With it's hierarchical contextual awareness and library of smart ASPNET controls, sophisticated UI's can be created in very little time.  Of course, using CodeSmith templates to bang out the underlying ... [More]

I sling a lot of data in and out of my Jobs Management Application and this afternoon's slinging consisted of Job Estimate data from Microsoft Access.  The process occurs through a Community Server background task and consists of three steps.  1) Request the List<Business Object>, 2)... [More]

Another Jobs Management Application lesson for us tonight to demonstrate new and exciting ways to use the Community Server HelpToolTip Popup Control.  In this session we will be using the HelpToolTip Popup Control to provide information to users when input errors occur. Below is a Jobs Manageme... [More]

In my Jobs Management app built on Community Server I needed to display job documents.  Another in-house Document Management application already had a page that displayed documents based on jobs, so instead of designing original Chameleon controls as usual, why not iframe in an existing documen... [More]

This is for folks working with the CS2008 SDK who would use the cs_4.0_CreateFullDatabase.sql script to create the Community Server 2008 database.  Scroll to the end of the file where you'll find the cs_system_CreateCommunity stored procedure.  In the past we ran this separately after the ... [More]