While migrating yourself and DNN to the next level, every developer has to learn new skills. Will it be JavaScript or MVC? We're (2sic/2sxc) strong believers in JS since it works in DNN-old and new - and also Umbraco, PHP etc. Now JavaScript got another huge boost - because Google indexes JS output! 

This second video shows how the App is built on http://2sxc.org/help which automatically shows special links based on the URL. So if ?tag=permissions is passed in, the Query will retrieve all help-links related to this tag and show them. The Solution has no code on the server so it's only tokens + query. Great to get started :) 

I got a few requests through Twitter and Codeplex asking for getting-started videos. So here goes - the first video shows the basics, creating a simple query and connecting it to a Tokens-Template.

Working with minified JavaScript - like when using jQuery or AngularJS in a live environment - is troubling when you want to debug something. So let me introduce you to the JavaScript Source Map. This is Lessons Learned #2 from the development of 2sxc 7.

This is a part of my series The New Features of 2sxc 7 and introduces you to importing existing data into 2sxc. You will usually want to do this when starting with existing data (like customer addresses) or when migrating from another tool (XYZ-Articles, XYZ-News, XYZ-Gallery) or from another CMS like Umbraco, Drupal, typo3 etc.

This is a part of my series The New Features of 2sxc 7 and provides you with a Demo-App to work with Form and List using Tokens and Razor. It uses the FnL DataSources which I explained in a blog 2 days ago.

The Visual Query / Pipeline Designer helps you build a chain of data-preparation actions. Now what if your data comes from another source? For many things you can use the DnnSqlDataSource - but it won't cover everything. We'll add more DataSource...

This is a part of my series The New Features of 2sxc 7 and introduces you to using Form-and-List-Data from DNN in the Visual Query. Note that it is also called FnL, UdT or User defined Table. This can then be used with Tokens, Razor or WebAPI/JSON.

This is a part of my series The New Features of 2sxc 7 and introduces you to using SQL-Data from DNN in the Visual Query to Re-Template / Re-Design any DNN-Module. In this case I prepared a demo using DNN Events. 

This is a part of my series The New Features of 2sxc 7 and introduces you to using SQL-Data from DNN in the Visual Query. This can then be used with Tokens, Razor or WebAPI/JSON.

This is a part of my series The New Features of 2sxc 7 and introduces you to Exporting and Importing DNN-Portals to create a Copy of a Site which manages content with 2sxc.  

Working with large and complex regular expressions is very difficult. But now I discovered a method which makes everything easier - so this is Lessons Learned #1 from the development of 2sxc 7.

This is a part of my series The New Features of 2sxc 7 and introduces you to using the Visual Query together with Razor Views/Templates. There are many ways to consume Query data - the most powerful version on the server is to use Razor.

This is a part of my series The New Features of 2sxc 7 and introduces you to the Token-Repeat enhancements and how to use them together with the Visual Query. There are many common ways to consume Query data - the simplest one is to use tokens. 

This is a part of my series The New Features of 2sxc 7 and introduces you to the Visual Query Designer. 

"***** This is the best module ever. You can create absolutely anything you might need. This Module should be a default on DNN, I don't understand how it isn't. I actually don't see the reason of DNN without a module like 2sxc. " And now it's much better - and still free and open source - here are the 20 most important new features we introduced:  

It's international Star-Wars day - and we're really excited to announce the stable release of 2sxc 7! It has been our core focus for the last three months and we've developed and improved more than 50 important features. 

I'm continuously writing various posts related to responsive web sites. This post simply keeps tabs on the entire series (6 parts by now).

Retina and high-res displays are a challenge when you want to do them correctly - but we discovered a very simple solution to this about 2 years ago, which I would like to share. Let's make our DNN sites amazing!

Whenever I see really features in a CMS I always ask myself: Is this something my customer is capable of using - without messing everything up? So I ask you: should the content-editor configure a carousel?

Should a CMS have a feature because it can? I always ask myself: Is this something my customer is capable of using - without messing everything up? So I ask you: should the content-editor worry about images?

We've been contributing thousands of hours to DNN development - mostly in regards to 2sxc, Razor, AngularJS, Training blogs and similar. As we continue to develop 2sxc, we often focus on aspects we need or our customers need - but we would like to hear your needs.

Since the WebAPI is usually invisible and doesn't have a real output-page it’s a bit harder to debug. What makes things even more difficult is the fact that DNN doesn't log WebAPI errors (it should, but that's a pending issue). So I'll show you the most important tools to help you get started.

In this post I would like to help you understand what happens between the sheets - mostly from the moment the web server receives the request up to the moment where your code (your C# class) gets to do something.

Developers following the true gospel of Microsoft have a tendency of using MSDN Magazine and Microsoft-Giveaways as their true source of information. This was the correct approach in the past when anything related to Mac or Linux was N/A (not applicable) for us true believers.