One thing you will notice if you use my example code for displaying the latest forum posts in a custom UserControl is that announcements and sticky posts are displayed too, and to make it worst, they are sorted by their sticky date (the date a post is set to un-stick) so that they always appear on top. I haven’t found a really good solution to ...

Just like with recent forum posts, it can be useful to be able to render the latest blog posts on a different page other than the aggregate page. This mini-article will outline the basic steps needed to create a control similar to what is used on the front page on www.windowsadvice.com. Again reflector (or the CS source) is your friend in ...

One of the things we wanted for WindowsAdvice was for the 10 most recent forum posts to be displayed on the frontpage. CommunityServer doesn’t provide a finished control for this, but does already have the functionality. Here’s a quick post to explain how to find and use this functionality on your own site. I’ve also provided a download to a very ...