When the DNN Corp remove the forge (download area for open-source work), our downloads dropped by ca. 75%. This is critical! People looking for open-source simply can't discover it any more. 

Watch the recording of our session at DNN-Connect: How to use various APIs in JavaScript, be it REST, CMS-Commands, Toolbars, Visual Queries and more.

2sxc 9 is bringing the future to DNN with Angular 4 and EF Core. Let's talk about EF Core.

We must get ready for the future - and the future on the server is .net core. Here's how to beat the hen-egg problem, where neither DNN nor the extensions can make the first move. 

E-Mails must often be customized - and to do it well, we need to be able to place both values as well as complex logic (like tables with sums) into the e-mail. Let's not be DAFT - this can be done using Razor templates!

This new Mobius Forms App is the most generic, customizable forms-system in the DNN Ecosystem. This is because it's Non-DAFT, meaning that techies can use HTML, JS and C# to customize everything. So pure code instead of GUIs missing just-that-one-feature. 

Don't you love it, when a tool/module helps you solve a simple problem - but is missing some trivial features. And to work around these limitations, you end up spending 3x more time, then if you had just created the whole functionality yourself. That is DAFT. Enter the Don't be DAFT pattern. 

Angular 2 was released in September 2016, so you may wonder why little has been posted in the DNN Ecosystem. We're still waiting for something - here's a status update.

2sxc 8.6 contains a large refactoring of the in-page toolbar, massively improving the work flow for developers and designer. Here's what's new.

We all sometimes need to add just a bit of CSS, JavaScript or HTML to a page, without mangling it through the WYSIWYG editor. The Snippet-App helps you do this, quickly and painlessly.

Getting DNN to dotnet core seems daunting - or maybe not? I believe the solution can be very simple - let's explore...

Very often you'll have a larger system containing 2-10 views, which then again need to re-use parts of each other. For example, re-using an "Author" template in a blog for the list, details, search-by-author and search-by-tag views. Here's how.

DNN has been plagued with slow editing experience since DNN 3 - mostly because of the WebForms Postback system. 2sxc has fixed most of this by now, getting all UI actions to flow in less than 1 second; and Content-updates all reload immediately using AJAX. But for most DNN modules and 2sxc-Apps this is more complex but easy. I've lost many sleepless nights getting this to work, and hope that I can help you by sharing this.

Sometimes you want to leverage 2sxc to create a solution, provide data input etc. but want to output or re-use the data in your own Module, Skin, Script or something else. This is easy to do.

ASP.net Core will be RC2 in about a week and RTM end of June. So here's a summary of the most important things for you, and how this will affect your next 12 months.

Using Razor to create templates and views is very simple, elegant and easy to understand. But when you want to share a few lines of code, a function or some constants between views, you need a simple trick.

When your Razor gets a bit more complex, you'll either want to split your files a bit to organize them better, or move partial views/templates into separate files. This is very easy using @RenderPage.

We've been working with JS-Automation for about a year now, specializing more and more on Grunt. But the more we relied on it, the more we had to go out of our way to get around problems inherent to Grunt. So we gave Gulp a chance and were very, very surprised.

There are cases where people want to use 2sxc-features and data inside other wrappers - for example in a custom DNN module using WebForms or in an another pre-existing dnn-module which allows Razor-templating. This is now officially supported in v8.3.

The User Experience for designers, developers and data-modelers has just been improved by factor 3 in 2sxc 8.1. Now both the template-code and the current content-type are just a click away, and highly optimized. You want to loop through all the items of a list? The code-snippet is already waiting for you - prefilled with the correct variable names. 

2sxc is all about solving common content and web tasks quickly and efficiencly. Because of this we're enhancing the in-page toolbar with advanced features (only visible for users with elevated permissions). Let's discover...