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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