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CodeBetter.Com 2.0 and New Community Server HomePage Controls for Download

This weekend we upgraded to Community Server 2.0 here at CodeBetter.  We have a new improved logo, and a new cleaner skin.  Our old site was getting a little long in the tooth. 

I’m happy to report that CS 2.0 rocks!  The upgrade was seamless, and the new application seems to be working great for us so far.  Great job to everyone over at Telligent!  We’re all very psyched around here to have this new toy to play with.  The spam filtering stuff is outstanding, and there are many great new features. It’s a definite must-upgrade.

Updated HomePage Controls
I had previously created a set of controls that we use on our homepage here at CodeBetter.  If you need them for CS1 and CS1.1 you can get them over here.  For CS2, I had to tweak these a bit, so I upgraded these controls for CS2, and have made them available for download on the new CodeBetter File repository.  I created this version as a DLL that you can just drop in, so no modification of the CS source is necessary.   Here's what you get.

1) FeaturedArticle
Purpose: This control shows one featured article, along with the excerpt and the author’s avatar.

2) AggregateCompactPostList
Shows a configurable number of latest and most popular posts.

3) AggregateCompactArticleList
Displays an article’s category title, excerpt, and published articles.

You also get a control that displays all the blogs by category, for the sidebar pane on the blogs page. 

-Brendan



Comments

Sahil Malik said:

There are plenty of behind the scenes improvements as well IMO.
# March 20, 2006 1:33 PM

Ancora Imparo said:


 I am at the press room for the Mix06, so I guess I should be writing about the Mix. .

Brendan Tompkis...
# March 20, 2006 2:12 PM

Brendan Tompkins said:

Jim, thanks for the kind words!

Scott, nice to see you hard at work :)  If you see the folks from CodeZone, ask them to let us in!

Sahil, there's a nice new "SahSpam" control that allows me to delete all of your comments and posts from my mobile phone...  Now that's progress! :P
# March 20, 2006 2:26 PM

Sahil Malik said:

Oh hey, does it give you a bzzztt.. shock everytime you pass a witty comment? ;)
# March 20, 2006 3:17 PM

Brendan Tompkins said:

Hey, if it gave you one, I'd be one hella prolific blogger!
# March 20, 2006 3:48 PM

Kris said:

Great work Brendan!
# March 20, 2006 4:01 PM

Jordan said:

Nice look, great logo, VERY stable-feeling.

Any way to show full articles rather than exerpts perchance?



Cheers,


Jordan.
# March 20, 2006 4:47 PM

Brendan Tompkins said:

Hi Jordan,

Yes.. I'm working on that tweak right now..  Look for that later in the week!

Brendan
# March 20, 2006 4:56 PM

Jordan said:

Sweet, looks great, plus loving the +digg links  :o)

Don't see an option to default the FULL POST option to on, though.  I'll dig around s'more -- may just have missed it.

Cheers, and thanks for the great work!  Your fans really appreciate it.
# March 28, 2006 12:11 PM

Patrizio said:

That what I was searching for ... but i'm preatty new to CS.

Which are the steps I must follow to install a change my defaut page?

What I understand so far...

1.- Copy dll to bin folder

2.- Copy ascx files to themes/default/skins/blogs

But what I must do with the default.aspx in the zip? What is not so clear to me is this:

"...(via default.aspx in the Themes/default/style directory)"

# September 26, 2006 10:00 PM

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About Brendan Tompkins

Brendan has been programming with .NET since the first public beta and is owner and operator of Port Technology Services, a consultancy company providing .NET application development services to the Maritime industry. In July, 2007, he was awarded the Microsoft MVP award for ASP.NET. He's also a proud co-founder of failed .COM startup Intrinsigo, and has had a hand in the failure of numerous other businesses. He currently runs CodeBetter.Com and Devlicio.us, and lives in Norfolk, Virgina with his wife Tiara and son Ian.

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