May 2007 - Posts

• Want to work on the Community Server Team?

  As Scott mentioned a few weeks ago , there are currently a few open positions on the Community Server Team. If you dream in ASP.Net/SQL/XHTML/CSS/JavaScript, the CS Team is a great group to work with. The open positions are: Client Side Specialist This... Posted May 18 2007, 11:52 PM by Ben Tiedt's Blog Filed under: Community Server, Software Development

• 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... Posted May 17 2007, 01:27 AM by Ben Tiedt's Blog Filed under: Community Server, Software Development, Skinning, Chameleon

• 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... Posted May 14 2007, 11:30 AM by Ben Tiedt's Blog Filed under: Community Server, Software Development, Skinning, Chameleon

• CS2007 Theme Contest

  This is just a friendly reminder to be sure to submit one or more themes to the CS2007 Theming Extravaganza contest. You can enter a full theme or a theme configuration (an export from the theme configuration page in the control panel). Prizes include... Posted May 09 2007, 01:03 AM by Ben Tiedt's Blog Filed under: Community Server, Skinning, Chameleon

• 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... Posted May 02 2007, 10:29 AM by Ben Tiedt's Blog Filed under: Community Server, Software Development, Skinning, Chameleon

• Introduction to Chameleon - In Chinese

  Deerchao has translated the Introduction to Chameleon blog series into Chinese. If you read Chinese, can read this, and would like to get started using the new theming engine in Community Server 2007, go read Deerchao's Introduction to Chameleon in... Posted May 02 2007, 09:51 AM by Ben Tiedt's Blog Filed under: Community Server, Skinning, Chameleon

• Chameleon Documentation

  I've just posted the documentation for all of the Chameleon controls in Community Server 2007 . The documentation is a compiled help file (CHM) in the MSDN documentation format. This new documentation complements the Introduction to Chameleon blog... Posted May 01 2007, 03:47 PM by Ben Tiedt's Blog