May 2- 3, Tech Days in Basel, Switzerland

The annual Tech Days are one of the biggest Microsoft Technology events in Switzerland. This year’s topics are all about software development and architecture as well as the management of infrastructure. Grigory Grin, Director Platform Strategy, Axinom GmbH, is one of the speakers and talks about how you can build professional websites more efficiently and best practices with .NET based Axinom CMS. View the full agenda here.

AxCMS.net presentation is on the 3. May 15:25 - 16:25.

I am happy to announce that Axinom recently got an official proof of competence for Cloud based customer scenarios on AxCMS.net. We are able to design, build and deliver Cloud-based applications in customer projects.

In particular AxCMS.net runs on Windows Azure:

What is the Cloud?

An approach to computing that’s about internet scale, shared resources, and delivering services on-demand to a variety of devices and endpoints.

Which applications profit from the Cloud?

If your application has a high traffic, fast growing traffic or high peaks in load, you should consider a Cloud offering.

Windows Azure is a Platform as a Service (PaaS) offering and as such it takes care of Administration (load balancing, failover), Availability and Scalability.

AxCMS.net 10 will come with comprehensive support for Media Content. Delivering media content through multiple channels will be more easy as ever. For example, look, how the video content managed by AxCMS.net could look like on a Windows Phone 7 device:

Finally AxCMS.net is available in Web Application Galllery:

http://www.microsoft.com/web/gallery/AxCMSnet.aspx

Installation runs via WPI (Web Platform Installer).

If you already have WPI 3.0 installed, please go to Options and change the Web Server to IIS (default is WebMatrix WebServer).

Installation manual is here:

http://help.axcms.net/en_help_cms_inst_express_9_5.AxCMS

Finally documented the most important facts about development process with AxCMS.net:

• AxCMS.net Development Process
• AxCMS.net Development Cycles
• AxCMS.net Resource Kit

Here are some topics & development steps covered:

• Roles in AxCMS.net Development
• Products and Services from Axinom - in a structured way
• Environments
• Customer Solution Structure
• Acquire AxCMS.net
• Acquire Template Project
• Create Project
• Setup Development System
• Setup Source Control
• Setup Production System
• Release
• Deployment
• Upgrade
• Develop
• Check-In
• PostBuild
• View
• Debug

Is there anything else you would like to know about the topic?

Technical Consulting

To help our Partners (AxCMS.net Solution Provider) with their first project we offer now to the new partners free technical consulting (up to 2 hours telephone / netviewer session). It boosts the proejct and helps to avoid the typicall pitfalls.

More info: http://www.axcms.net/en_axcms_solution_provider.AxCMS

Installation Service

Do you have difficulties with AxCMS.net Installation? We install AxCMS.net on your PC (remotely)! This service includes:

• Checking and installing necessary pre-requisites
• Installing AxCMS.net with Stadard- or Premium Template Project
• Aquiring and configuring development license for you
• Testing the installation
• Solving possible problems

Custom configurations upon request.

More info: http://www.axcms.net/en_axcms_install_service.AxCMS

You don't have to wait for your AxCMS.net license anymore if you request it online. The license file is generated automatically and sent back to you via email.

More reading about the topic licensing:

• Licensing (in Administrator Guide)
• KB10042: License file is not valid for current configuration
• KB10041: Could not load the license XML

And the best thing about AxCMS.net Licenses is - they are free of charge!

A quote from [2]:

"I’m pleased to announce that we have Released to Web, the Content Management Interoperability Services (CMIS) Connector for SharePoint.  The CMIS Connector for SharePoint ships as part of the SharePoint 2010 Administration Toolkit, providing a CMIS interface over the top of SharePoint as well as a CMIS Consumer Web Part that can be used to display content from other CMIS enabled repositories."

With this step SharePoint integration in an AxCMS.net project gets easier. CMIS domain model fits well into AxCMS.net model and WebServices (one of the two CMIS-bindings) are easy to consume from out AxCMS.net.

[1] http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff934619.aspx
[2] http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ecm/archive/2010/07/16/announcing-the-release-of-the-cmis-connector-for-sharepoint.aspx

What is in 9.2?

• Groups for Structure Elements
• Pre-Live System
• Many improvements for Editors:
  
  • Copy / Paste
  • Top Menu
  • Control over Favicons
  • Better control when Publishing
  • CSS Class and Image Format can be Applied to Images
  • Highlight Current Style / Color / Formatting in the Toolbar
  • Checked-Out Elements are Shown Red
• And many improvements for Developers & Administrators:
  • Meta Tags Usage
  • Extensibility for AxCMS.net Objects
  • Thumbnail Handling
  • Securing web.config Keys
  • Usage of Macros
  • Active Directory Synchronization

Presentation on 9.2 (For Partners)

http://www.AxCMS.net/upload/EN_AxCMS_net_9_2_extended_13343.pdf

Download AxCMS.net 9.2 (For Partners)

http://www.AxCMS.net/en_Partner_Download_AxCMS.AxCMS

Read about AxCMS.net Partner Programm

http://www.AxCMS.net/en_axcms_partnerstart.AxCMS

Information about upgrading from earlier AxCMS.net versions

http://help.AxCMS.net/en_help_inst_upgrade_9_2_0.AxCMS

Our customers and partners have always asked for better documentation. We took it seriously and now proudly present the new version of our Help & Support Center: http://help.AxCMS.net.

The first thing you see - a lot of news on the homepage. Those who visit help.AxCMS.net regulary see now on one screen the new articles, KB-articles, blog-entries and even the recent twitts (coming soon: latest forum topics). And you can subsribe to the news feeds via RSS.

For newbies there is a new starting page (also available from www.axcms.net via "Documentation"-link): http://help.axcms.net/en_new_to.AxCMS. It visualize the structure of the Help & Support Center.

There is a new guide: Basic Concepts, describing the fundamentals of AxCMS.net. This is recommended reading for everybody starting with AxCMS.net - does not matter if Developer, Administrator or Editor.

We consider search to be a key feature of the Help & Support Center. Search box on the homepage is now big cannot be overseen. Search functionality is improved in many ways:

• Search results on the top are so called best matches. Best matches are found based on the keywords which are manually attached to help pages. It means, if you see best matches, they are almost certainly what you look for.
• Advanced search syntax is available. For example you can search with AND/OR/NOT or search in specific fields, like name, headline or content.
• Search results can be restricted to a particular Audience (Developers, Administrators, Users) or Source (Guides, Products, Articles, FAQ, KB). In the screenshot above if you would restrict the audience to Developers, you will get only 74 results instead of 117 related to template development and if you further restrict the source to KB - only 3 KB-articles about possible problems.
• In the search results you see a short description for every item found. Sometimes it can answer your question without even going to the page.
• Left to every search result you see an icon which explains, where the found articles comes from - if it is User Guide, Developer Guide, KB or something else. It is one more hint for you to decide, which of the results found is more relevant.
• There are 50 results on a page, i.e. you should not need to use paging (and if there are too many results, preferably restrict the result set using filters or change the search term.

Knowledge Base is a new area where we collected a lot of information earlier distributed everywhere in the system. We try to generate a KB-article from every support case and every forum topic. We recommend using KB as a frst remedy in case of some problems with installation and development. KB is structured into usual 3 areas: for Developers, Administrators, Users.

Forum now resides under Help & Support and is available for everyone. Feel free to ask questions there, discuss your ideas and provide suggestion for improvements in AxCMS.net.

All in one - welcome to the new Help & Support Center!