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I like a clean output window when I'm building in Visual Studio; I fix warnings so that all I see in the window is a bunch of "0 errors, 0 warnings". So Visual Studio 2005 gave me some work to do. Although I've been using 2005 for a month or so for building a 2.0 version of the Community Server MSI, I've only just started ...

Community Server 2.1 RC1 is up there for download. Obviously it's the best release yet and it's I'm now officially an enthusiast. Yeah, I've worked at Telligent for almost a year now but only recently full-time on the CS team. It's a great team, but getting my new blog site setup on CS has finally got me involved in the ...

Well, I got my CS site up and working - on my local machine. :D And then, my FTP program decided to have a very immature and badly-timed hissy fit. It took an hour to upload the files, often quoting 4bytes/sec upload speed. Yes BYTES. It started moaning about files not being uploaded correctly that had spaces in the name. And then at about 11pm ...

..and within 15 minutes (how is that possible?) the ringtone spam comments poured into my blog. So, this is it. This is the weekend that CYA moves to CS. It's not hard, thousands of people do this each day but the longer I leave it the bigger hurdle it appears. I'm just going to install it, set it to single blog mode and pick a theme. It ain't ...

Have I finally found something that chaps my butt enough to get off my lazy ass and start blogging again? Yes, I jolly well think I have.  And it's nice to be back, thanks. (No,my blog is still not on Community Server, even though everyone else in the world seems to be. Even manic depressives have found time to skin their own CS sites ...

"Dozing Dogs has an installation program, right?" I should have looked innocent and said that I'd really love to have one but I hadn't gotten around to it. But I didn't, so my Community Server coding recently is inside MSI and the associated configuration wizard exe. But, hell, coding is fun even in there. Even when ...

ok, so I just installed CS on my locahost using the MSI and followed the same advice that I used to give Dozing Dogs customers; namely, install on localhost but use your production (hosting company's) SQL Server if possible. Doing this means that you won't have to move the db, just the web site. I decided to install into the existing ...

Microsoft, please don't document something that isn't true. It's such a little thing, but so annoying on the first day back after a nice few days at the beach. Here's a quote:  The SplashBitmap property specifies a bitmap or JPEG image to be displayed in the dialog box. For best results, you should use an image with dimensions of 480 ...

I'm installing SQL Server onto my new Windows Server 2003 for testing, and I slipped in my normal DVD - up pops up a window saying that SQL Server SP2 and lower ''is not supported on this o/s''. Oh, ok. I go through my latest MSDN disks to find the latest one. July 2005 no less. Still the same issue - the SQL Server install is still SP2 and won't ...

I'm so used to replying to emails quickly that I find it personally offensive when others don't do the same. I have a problem with a 3rd party product today and it has totally put the brakes on a minor release that I wanted to get out the door tomorrow. It's not a huge deal in the grand scheme of things, but it's annoying when I'm literally ...