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This tip comes via Ben in the forums : In Community Server 2007, the <CSControl:UserAvatar /> control can be placed anywhere within the context of a user (for example, placed within the context of a post, the post's author will be displayed). The current blogs page on CommunityServer.org users this markup as the <ItemTemplate> of the <CSBlog:WeblogPostList /> control to include the user's avatar in place of the blog icon: < li class ="BlogPostArea None" >...

In controls nested directly within <ItemTemplate> or <AlternatingItemTemplate>, you can use the following custom condition within the <DisplayConditions> of a Chameleon control: <CSControl:CustomCondition CustomResult='<%# ((IDataItemContainer) Container.Parent).DisplayIndex == 0 %>' runat="server" /> This will evaluate to true when the current item is the first item being displayed. So, for example, to show the full body of the only the first post...

If you are an ASP.Net web developer, how often have you seen users accidentally repost a form by using a refresh? This was a very common thing in early versions of Community Server. Users would post a blog comment and while eager to see it show up would press refresh a couple of times until the cache expired on the content. We added code in previous versions of Community Server to handle this case in blogs, but unfortunately this required you to add code just about every form. Boring! Chameleon introduces...