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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.IContentFragment interface. Community Server will...

Posted to Ben Tiedt (Weblog) by Anonymous on 04-21-2008
Community Server 2008 - How to Support Widgets in a Custom Theme

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...

Posted to Ben Tiedt (Weblog) by Anonymous on 04-18-2008
Community Server 2008 - How to Upgrade Themes from CS2007 to CS2008

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...

Posted to Ben Tiedt (Weblog) by Anonymous on 04-18-2008
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 (before 2007) and the 2008 version, I suggest reading...

Posted to Ben Tiedt (Weblog) by Anonymous on 04-16-2008
Community Server 2008 - Notes, Changes, and New Features

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...

Posted to Ben Tiedt (Weblog) by Anonymous on 04-15-2008
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 to Ben Tiedt (Weblog) by Anonymous on 02-14-2008
"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 about themes -- understanding how URL rewriting...

Posted to Ben Tiedt (Weblog) by Anonymous on 11-01-2007
Professional Community Server Themes

I had a chance to work on a great project earlier this year with two very talented co-workers: Wyatt Preul and Ben Tiedt . The project was Professional Community Server Themes - a WROX book. I had the pleasure of serving as the Technical Editor. Between the awesome information provided by Wyatt and Ben...

Posted to Dan Hounshell (Weblog) by Anonymous on 09-24-2007
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 about Chameleon or theming in Community Server...

Posted to Ben Tiedt (Weblog) by Anonymous on 09-19-2007
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 to list all of the available properties exposed...

Posted to Ben Tiedt (Weblog) by Anonymous on 09-11-2007

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