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• Community Server 2008 - How to Implement Custom Widgets

  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... Posted Apr 21 2008, 02:38 PM by Ben Tiedt's Blog Filed under: Community Server, Software Development, Chameleon, Theming, Dynamic Configuration

• Community Server 2008 - Changes to Chameleon

  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... Posted Apr 16 2008, 05:22 PM by Ben Tiedt's Blog Filed under: Community Server, Software Development, Chameleon, Theming

• Watch Theming Community Server from CSDC'07 (Part 1)

  Part one of Wyatt and my talk about theming Community Server from CSDC '07 is now available on the Telligent web site. This video provides an overview of Community Server theming, URL rewriting, and the Chameleon theming language. Go watch it now... Posted Feb 14 2008, 06:02 PM by Ben Tiedt's Blog Filed under: Community Server, Software Development, Chameleon, Telligent, Theming, Dynamic Configuration

• "Professional Community Server Themes" Now Available!

  It appears that online booksellers such as Amazon.com and Barnes and Noble now report " Professional Community Server Themes " as being "In Stock!" I'm very excited that this book is finally available! This book covers most everything... Posted Nov 01 2007, 12:12 AM by Ben Tiedt's Blog Filed under: Community Server, Software Development, Chameleon, Theming, Dynamic Configuration

• Talking about Community Server Theming at the CSDC

  This past weekend at the CSDC , Wyatt Lyon Preul and I presented a two-part talk about implementing themes in Community Server -- both what is available in CS2007 as well as what we're adding in CS2008. We had an excellent turn-out and a lot of great... Posted Oct 22 2007, 12:30 PM by Ben Tiedt's Blog Filed under: Software Development, Chameleon, Telligent, Theming, Dynamic Configuration

• What Would You Like to Know about Chameleon?

  I've been working on adding content and documentation to the Themes topic on docs.communityserver.org . Please check out the new information and see what you think. Now, after you've looked around, what's missing? What would you like to know... Posted Sep 19 2007, 07:58 AM by Ben Tiedt's Blog Filed under: Community Server, Software Development, Chameleon, Theming

• Chameleon Property Documentation

  I just wanted to point out a recent update to the docs.communityserver.org site that should help theme developers using Chameleon . Documentation for single value and condition controls which access objects within the Community Server API has been added... Posted Sep 11 2007, 11:10 AM by Ben Tiedt's Blog Filed under: Community Server, Software Development, Chameleon, Theming

• Some Notes about Community Server 2007 SP3

  I've just added descriptions and notes to docs.communityserver.org regarding some of the changes in SP3 I was involved with: Tags: Is there a way to hide TagClouds when they have no tags to display? Introduction to Chameleon: New TruncationEllipsisTemplate... Posted Aug 28 2007, 04:00 PM by Ben Tiedt's Blog Filed under: Community Server, Software Development, Skinning, Chameleon

• Some Notes about Community Server 2007.1

  I've just added descriptions and notes to docs.communityserver.org regarding some of the changes in CS2007.1 (previously known as SP3 ) I was involved with: Tags: Is there a way to hide TagClouds when they have no tags to display? Introduction to... Posted Aug 28 2007, 04:00 PM by Ben Tiedt's Blog Filed under: Community Server, Software Development, Chameleon, Theming

• Community Server 2007 Service Pack 3 (Pre-Release)

  Jose announced today that a pre-release version of SP3 for Community Server 2007 is now available on communityserver.org . This service pack includes many bug fixes, performance enhancements (including server-side caching optimizations and an updated... Posted Aug 27 2007, 11:25 PM by Ben Tiedt's Blog Filed under: Community Server, Software Development, Chameleon

• Extending User Registration using Sub-Forms

  A common Community Server customization involves adding fields to the registration form (CreateUserForm control) and performing custom actions based on these fields. Chameleon provides an easy way to extend the CreateUserForm control by using Sub-Forms... Posted Jun 15 2007, 02:27 PM by Ben Tiedt's Blog Filed under: Community Server, Software Development, Skinning, Chameleon

• 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

• 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

• New Custom Code Condition and Action Chameleon Controls

  To more easily support custom code in Chameleon-based themes, two new controls were added: CustomCondition and CustomAction. From the updated Introduction to Chameleon: Condition Controls post... CustomCondition (<CSControl:CustomCondition />) CustomCondition... Posted Mar 15 2007, 12:44 AM by Ben Tiedt&#39;s Blog Filed under: Community Server, Software Development, Skinning, Chameleon