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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...
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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...
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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...
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After updating a custom theme for CS2008 , support for widgets can be added. Community Server 2008 provides built-in support for extending Dynamic Theme Configuration to support selecting custom widgets to be displayed within a theme. CS2008 includes widgets for showing post lists, user lists, group...
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My last article outlined the changes made to Chameleon and Theming between CS2007 and CS2008 and could be used as a guide for an in-depth, manual upgrade of a CS2007 theme to CS2008. In this article, however, I'll provide my suggested approach to upgrading themes for CS2008. Upgrading a CS2007 Site...
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In this post, I'll outline the changes to the Chameleon theming engine (and themes in general) between Community Server 2007 and Community Server 2008. If you're interested in the changes to themes between an earlier version of Community Server (before 2007) and the 2008 version, I suggest reading...
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As announced earlier today , Community Server 2008 is now available ! CS2008 includes many exciting new features: embedded video and audio, real friend support, widgets, mini-communities a.k.a. groups, improved messaging, and more. To help everyone make the jump to CS2008, I plan on publishing technical...
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Theme developers using Chameleon should take note of a recent addition to docs.communityserver.org -- the inclusion of documentation for all Chameleon controls which support interacting with named properties from the Community Server API. For example, when displaying data using a control such as: <CSBlog...
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First, a big huge thank you to all of you who entered the first Community Server Theme Extravaganza . There were a lot of great submissions . The results for track one : Dirty Pink by David Mealo The Lab by Mark Knittel Tech Fan by vatech1993 The results for track two : Shadow and Grey - mic.ambigram...
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Now that the deadline for submissions to the first Community Server Theme Extravaganza has passed, it’s time to browse the entries, try a couple out, and vote for your favorites. Within the next couple of weeks, we will be giving away two MacBooks, two iPhones (or Xbox 360 Elites), and a pair of Amazon...