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

I’m looking forward to the day when I’ll be announcing new releases of my Drive CodeSmith template library to generate custom code for Sueetie, but while I’m still doing a lot of Community Server stuff I will continue to release updates to Drive for CS development. Version 1.0.4 has support for crea... [More]

We've all been there.  We add a field to a SQL Table because our business object needs a new property, which means we have to change the business object and include the new property or properties in the various processes where the object is being populated or created. I was in this situation to... [More]

This is one of those monkey-on-my-back posts that I need to write before we can get back to regularly scheduled dbvt.com programming.  I've been using the Drive code generation templates more and more.  I've been adding new templates to the library as well, releasing v1.0.3 over the weeken... [More]

Any of you who go back with me are very accustomed to seeing "DBVT" code samples, like when I posted about CSTiers, an early version of what would become the Drive Template Library for Community Server. DBVTUser user = DBVTContext.Current.DBVTUser;if (user.IsInBillingGroup)    do some... [More]

I released Drive v1.0.1 today.  Thanks to the good feedback I've been receiving, I'm seeing how important it is for the Drive Startup Project to compile clean and without any problems. The Project Startup templates are the foundation of generating custom Community Server code in Drive, so I'll ... [More]

I'm excited to announce the release of Drive, a Rapid Development Framework for Community Server.  You can learn more about Drive and download the framework at DriveFramework.com. "Rapid Development Framework for Community Server" is a rather high fallutin' description, I know, so what exactly ... [More]