AxCMS.net

Win Xbox360 w/ Kinect before Christmas

2010-12-01T21:01:00Z

We're celebrating the product launch at the LeWeb 2010 conference (*) and here's your opportunity to win the brand new Xbox 360 with Kinect controller! :-)

There are two options:

Install and try out AxCMS.net (Free of charge!) or ...
Tweet about the raffle:

"I want to win an Xbox360 w/
Kinect and AxCMS.net now! http://bit.ly/AxCMS10 #axcms #leweb
#whatyalike"

All installations, tweets and retweets will count. Retweets will even count twice - for you again and for the one who retweeted your tweet. More tweets and retweets, more chances for you to win an Xbox360 w/ Kinect. As simple as that! ;-)

The winners will be announced on December 10, 2010.

Good luck!

(*) The reason for the raffle is simple. We're celebrating the launch of brand new products at Axinom. At LeWeb – the #1 European Web Event in Paris on Dec 8 -9 – about 2500 entrepreneurs, investors, and journalists from over 50 countries will discuss the current web trends and topics. At this event Axinom will introduce AxCMS.net Express 9.5 and provide a sneak peak at AxCMS.net 10, the new version of Axinom's Web Content Management System.

You'll find us at LeWeb in the Eiffel Room (Stand D) where we're exhibiting together with Microsoft Corporation.

We got what ya like .. and we have cookies! ;-)

Free ASP.NET Web CMS v 9.2 released!

2010-09-09T15:53:00Z

Free Download: http://en.axcms.net/

Version 9.2 supports Micrsoft .NET Framework 4 and Silverlight 4 in both Web Forms and MVC template development with ASP.NET.

New version a big step towards AxCMS.net 10, focuses on improved editor and developer productivity featuring more than 100 improvements that boost developer and editor productivity. The new "Pre-Live" support turns out to be an invaluable feature for large organizations: it enables an additional, third, level for quality assurance and is especially useful in scenarios where the Web site managed by AxCMS.net is integrated with other software like ERP or CRM systems.

Editors will value the many changes that make their lives easier: More control over the publishing workflow, faster object copy/paste, better overview of checked-out elements, improved error diagnostics, enhanced text editor, more control when dealing with images, enhanced Active Directory synchronization, better site management, and much more.

There is also a lot of love for developers in the new release: functions for automatically handling html Meta tags, more extension points in the data access layer, improved API for thumbnail handling, and support for moving sensitive data out of configuration files into the Windows registry.

Check it out and let us know if there is something we should improve to make you happy :-)

FIFA World Cup 2010 Special

2010-06-30T09:12:00Z

Who will win the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa? We know it already! There is just one possibility.

And therefore here's the deal ...

Become AxCMS.net solution provider before the quarter final game on Saturday.
German soccer team wins the worldcup (which will happen anyway..)
We discount the annual fee for solution provider program by 100% !! (no fee at all :-) )

Here's the link: http://www.axcms.net/en_axcms_become_partner.AxCMS

Olé!! Olé!! Olé!! :-)

(c) Culture of Soccer

Relaunch: Help & Support Center

2010-05-18T13:54:00Z

More content, more interactivity, more social media: new help & support center for AxCMS.net collects all available information and news around AxCMS.net installation, deployment, development, and usage.

Web: http://help.axcms.net/
Free download: http://www.AxCMS.net

New chapter "Basic Concepts" is designed to provide users with an introduction and understanding of AxCMS.net. You will be introduced to the different AxCMS.net components, elements, use of built-in features such as categories and relations, deployment, workflow and security topics. This information forms a self-study guide as an introduction to AxCMS.net

10 Ways to Get a Document into AxCMS.net

2010-04-22T10:15:00Z

Since AxCMS.net 9.1 there is a possibility to upload multiple files simultenously (with a simple Silverlight component). While I was waiting for my files to upload, I started to think about which other methods we currently have in AxCMS.net for uploading documents. I came up with 10 and same evening this article was ready:

10 Ways to Get a Document into AxCMS.net

The Classic: Individual Manual Upload
Document Creation Box
Upload Multiple Files
Files from a Remote URL
Files from Windows SharePoint Services (WSS)
WebDAV
ZIP
Create Documents Programmatically
Apply Auto-Formatting
Send the Documents via Email

Always choose the most appropriate way to upload your documents into AxCMS.net. Consider size of the documents, how many you have, where to they come from and which other tools you use.

AxCMS.net 10 with Microsoft Silverlight 4 and Microsoft Visual Studio 2010

2010-04-13T20:18:00Z

Axinom, European WCM vendor, today announced the next version of its WCM solution AxCMS.net 10, which streamlines the processes involved in creating, managing and distributing corporate content on the internet. The new solution helps reducing ongoing costs for managing and distributing to large audiences, while at the same time drastically reducing time-to-market and one-time setup costs.

http://www.AxCMS.net

Axinom’s WCM portfolio, based on the Microsoft .NET Framework 4, Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 and Microsoft Silverlight 4, allows enterprises to increase process efficiency, reduce operating costs and more effectively manage delivery of rich media assets on the Web and mobile devices. Axinom solutions are widely used by major European online brands in IT, telco, retail, media and entertainment industries such as Siemens, American Express, Microsoft Corp., ZDF, Pro7Sat1 Media, and Deutsche Post.

Brand New User Interface built with Silverlight 4
By using Silverlight 4, Axinom’s team created a new user interface for AxCMS.net 10 that is optimized for improved usability and speed. WYSIWYG mode, integrated image editor, extended list views, and detail views of objects allow a substantial acceleration of typical editor tasks. Axinom’s team worked with Silverlight Rough Cut Editor for video management and Silverlight Analytics Framework for extended reporting to complete the wide range of capabilities included in the new release.

“Axinom’s release of AxCMS.net 10 enables developers to take advantage of the latest features in Silverlight 4,” said Brian Goldfarb, director of the developer platform group at Microsoft Corp. “Microsoft is excited about the opportunity this creates for Web developers to streamline the creating, managing and distributing of online corporate content using AxCMS.net 10 and Silverlight.”

Rapid Web Development with Visual Studio 2010
AxCMS.net 10 is extended by additional products that enable developers to get productive quickly and help solve typical customer scenarios. AxCMS.net template projects come with documented source code that help kick-start projects and learn best practices in all aspects of Web application development. AxCMS.net overcomes many hard-to-solve technical obstacles in an out-of-the-box manner by providing a set of ready-to-use vertical solutions such as corporate Web site, Web shop, Web campaign management, email marketing, multi-channel distribution, management of rich Internet applications, and Web business intelligence.

Extended Multi-Site Management
AxCMS.net has been supporting the management of an unlimited number of Web sites for a long time. The new version 10 of AxCMS.net will further improve multi-site management and provide features to editors and developers that will simplify and accelerate multi-site and multi-language management. Extended publication workflow will take into account additional dependencies of dynamic objects, pages, and documents.

“The customer requests evolved from static html pages to dynamic Web applications content with the emergence of rich media assets seamlessly combined across many channels including Web, mobile and IPTV. With the.NET Framework 4 and Silverlight 4, we’re on the fast track to making the three screen strategy a reality for our customers,” said Damir Tomicic, CEO of Axinom Group. “Our customers enjoy substantial competitive advantages of using latest Microsoft technologies. We have a long-standing, relationship with Microsoft and are committed to continued development using Microsoft tools and technologies to deliver innovative Web solutions in the future.”

Download Now Free Web CMS With Silverlight 3 Ribbon UI

2009-09-14T16:20:00Z

AxCMS.net is a free Enterprise Web Content Management System (CMS) which offers a comprehensive list of features for creating and managing web applications in Internet, Extranet and Intranet. It is based entirely on Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5, Silverlight 3 and ASP.NET Ajax.

Lates version AxCMS.net 9 RTW is now available for download:

http://www.axcms.net

Enjoy :-)

Video Sneak Preview Of Silverlight 3 User Interface

2009-08-11T21:02:00Z

The AxCMS.net team have provided us with a video showcasing their internal version 9 alpha release with Silverlight 3 User Interface. For those unfamiliar with the product, AxCMS.net is known as a powerful enterprise web content management system - free and 100% based on Microsoft .NET.

Video-Link: http://en.axcms.net/upload/AxCMSnet_9_preview_Webcast_1_11451.wmv

More detailed information: http://en.axcms.net/

First Free Enterprise Web CMS With An Integrated Silverlight 3 Based Ribbon Toolbar!

2009-08-06T21:20:00Z

Get a sneak peek of our latest AxCMS.net that will be officially introduced on September 9, 2009.

The new ribbon toolbar - developed with silverlight technology!

AxCMS.net Silverlight ribbon toolbar enables editors to manage and design enterprise websites with an extraordinary usability experience for CMS Users. This powerful browser plug-in communicates with the AxCMS.net Enterprise Web CMS Services in Internet Explorer and Firefox on Windows and Macintosh platforms. (contact us for more information)

The editor will always have direct access to the toolbar in the header and footer that enables him to start all important actions to build, change, and control the website content.

In the footer the editor can change between the page properties. He can e.g. change the meta information of the page, switch to the edit mode to work on his content, or turn to the preview mode to check if everything is set up correctly. (contact us for more information)

New key visuals for page structure elements

Key visuals for elements show you in a very simple way how to set up your page structure and how to include special content elements such as contact forms, voting modules, dynamic lists, e-commerce elements etc. (contact us for more information)

Edit text in the page – without new windows

If you need to change or edit an object e.g. a text, images, lists, contact forms object, you do not need to open a new window but you can directly make the changes in the page. (contact us for more information)

Choose and search in your page context for images

Choose the image you like to edit, insert or to replace on your page. AxCMS.net enables you to search for an image while your page content stays visible. (contact us for more information)

Join us on Twitter

2009-06-18T21:02:00Z

Twitter is a free social messaging utility for staying connected in real-time. Join us and get in touch with developers and architects behind the scenes. We look forward to great online discussions. :-)

http://twitter.com/axcms

Integrating ASP.NET MVC framework with AxCMS.net

2009-05-04T15:58:00Z

ASP.NET MVC Framework is based on the Model-View-Controller architectural pattern, separating the data access, business logic and presentation using the routing capabilities of ASP.NET.

The main benefits of using ASP.NET MVC Framework are:

Friendly URL's which are intuitive to use (you can navigate the site by just changing URL or removing it's parts)
Clear separation of concerns ( you always know where to put your Business, Data Access, and Presentation logic)
Greater control over HTML output in MVC Views than in WebForms ( which in turn, gives you easier integration with JavaScript)
Test-Driven Development ( With ASP.NET MVC Framework it's easy to test controller classes without the need of emulating .aspx pages like in unit testing for Web Forms)

It is a different paradigm of developing with ASP.NET from Web Forms, instead of basing user interaction directly with .aspx pages with code-behind, Postback, ViewState, events, you create a set of routing rules which will analyse the URL of user's http request and based on that information, call the Action of appropriate Controller class which will look for appropriate Model, pass data from it to .aspx page (View) and return the parsed result in http response. A different Action can be called for same URL based on either browser's GET or POST verb.

The main resource for starting out with ASP.NET MVC Framework is:

http://www.asp.net/mvc/

For deploying ASP.NET MVC based projects to machines without ASP.NET MVC installed, MVC specific dll’s can be extracted to be shipped with your project:

http://haacked.com/archive/2008/11/03/bin-deploy-aspnetmvc.aspx

Using ASP.NET MVC Framework in context of AxCMS.net

It is possible to enhance your website with functionalities based on ASP.NET MVC routing engine, that way you will be able to develop Controller and Model classes (Model tables can be placed inside the CMS Live database of your project) inside the YourProject.BL project and have GUI editing capabilities of AxCMS.net for Views, with the benefits that AxCMS.net offers like user management, content management, etc. on backend.

Developing Controllers and Models

Create Controllers directory in YourProject.BL and place your classes derived from System.Web.Mvc.Controller there. By convention, Controller class must be named ClassNameController, with Controller as last part of name.

You can place Models also in YourProject.BL project.

Models are representing both Business Logic and Data Access in MVC, so you may want to further separate them and implement the Data Access logic through web services.

Developing MVC View Templates

View pages can be based on normal templates with slight difference:
To have access to ViewData and HtmlHelper classes, template should inherit from:

System.Web.Mvc.ViewPage
( or strongly typed System.Web.Mvc.ViewPage<ModelClass> )

You can create pages based on these templates as usual, to follow ASP.NET MVC convention of no code-behind you should only put only code for parsing entity(Model) fields there and use static controls that render to inline code when published.

Developing static elements for View Pages

It is possible to develop dynamic controls for View pages as well, as MVC View pages still inherit from Page, but by convention MVC View pages should not have code-behind files and render content editing logic with inline code. To follow this convention, we can make static controls that are rendered as inline code after publishing.

To have access to ViewData and HtmlHelper classes, control should inherit from:

System.Web.Mvc.ViewUserControl
( or strongly typed System.Web.Mvc.ViewUserControl<ModelClass> )

Here is the How-To FAQ and further more detailed information:

http://help.axinom.de/en_help_cms_mvc.AxCMS?ActiveID=13695
http://www.axcms.net

Free .NET CMS "AxCMS.net 9" will ship in September

2009-04-03T08:12:00Z

Version 9 of free .NET Web CMS "AxCMS.net" will be shipped in September 2009 featuring a wealth of new functions and improvements. AxCMS.net Solution Providers will be able to benefit from coming features through interim releases even before launch of AxCMS.net 9. AxCMS.net Version 8.5 can be downloaded for free already today at: http://www.AxCMs.net

Technology of Choice

Version 9 is entirely based on Microsoft .NET 3.5 framework including ASP.NET Ajax, Silverlight 3 and all the latest goodies provided by Microsoft. Version 9 is built using Visual Studio Suite and Team Foundation Server and supports large projects for teams between 5 and 200 developers. Existing .NET projects can be included in AxCMS.net project templates without any changes. This helps minimizing migration efforts and transfering existing e-commerce and web sites into content managed websites easily.

Usability

The CMS user interface is being overhauled. WYSIWYG mode, list views, and detail views of objects will be optimized for improved usability and speed. These changes' goals are an even more intuitive user interface and a substantial acceleration of typical editor tasks. User interface will be improved using latest Microsoft Silverlight 3 technology.

Search Engine Friendlyness (SEO / SEF)

AxCMS.net 9 will feature ways to define patterns for URLs according to users' needs (i. e. URLs without parameters, URLs with an arbitrary hierarchy that can be defined at design time, special extensions, etc.). These additions together with URL rewriting improvements will dramatically simplify creation and management of search engine friendly web sites.

Multi-site Management

AxCMS.net has been supporting the management of an arbitrary number of web sites for a long time. The new version will further improve multi-site management. It will provide features to editors and developers that will simplify and accelerate multi-site management.

Publication Workflow

Publication workflow will take into account additional dependencies of objects being published. Users publishing pages, documents, and other objects will be better supported by the user interface.

Support of New Technologies

AxCMS.net 9 will even better support development and management of RIAs (Rich Internet Applications). RIAs have different requirements for communication of RIA front ends on client side with CMS back end than traditional web sites.

Managing web sites that are built on top of Microsoft's new MVC approach is possible, even with the current version of AxCMS.net. However, AxCMS.net 9 will feature additional functions that will even better support running and managing web sites that utilize this new technology.

Performance Improvements

AxCMS.net 9 will feature improved performance in many places. It will fly as fast as never before :-)

.NET Job Offerings - Seattle, WA

2008-04-21T20:00:00Z

Axinom, the leading European technology integrator specializing in the Microsoft enterprise platform and ECM solutions, is entering the U.S. market.

Read on, if you are interested in working for a company that uses cutting-edge technologies, works for the most well-known brands, is profitable, grows fast, and even offers a free Enterprise Content Management based fully on .NET 3.x to everyone. ;-)

Axinom is looking for some key staff to build a brand new base in Seattle. We are ideally looking to fill the senior roles first as they will be required to recruit, mentor, and guide the junior members.

[1] http://www.linkedin.com/jobs?viewJob=&jobId=513596&fromSearch=0&sik=1208157712360
[2] http://www.linkedin.com/jobs?viewJob=&jobId=513272&fromSearch=1&sik=1208157712360

Info about the company: http://www.axinom.com

Info about the product: http://www.axcms.net

Multilingual sites, dynamic contact forms, news & document lists, surveys, forum, search, registration & login, sitemap ...

2007-05-22T13:15:00Z

You can download the new AxCMS.net 7 based on Microsoft .NET Framework 3.0 and SQL Server 2005 with numerous new features and considerably simpler installation - free of charge.

Download: http://www.AxCMS.net

Additionally to the "standard sample" project you will find the "premium sample" project is packed with page templates (multilingual sites, dynamic contact forms, news & document lists, surveys, forum, search, registration & login, sitemap and much more ... ) with a challenging layout and different navigation models. The "premium sample" project is available to you in source code.

Find more information about ...

... AxCMS.net Premium Sample:
http://en.axcms.net/en_axcms_templates_premium.AxCMS
... AxCMS.net Solution Provider
http://en.axcms.net/en_SolutionProvider.AxCMS
... AxCMS.net Premium Demo System:
http://en.axasp.net/Hosting.AxCMS

[Download] Free Enterprise CMS for Microsoft .NET Framework 3.0 & ASP.NET Ajax released!

2007-05-19T02:13:00Z

AxCMS.net^® was one of the world’s first enterprise content management platforms based on Microsoft .NET framework and developed by Axinom, Microsoft Gold Certified Partner and Vendor based in Germany. AxCMS.net^® is a award-winning, multilingual and multi-site compatible solution - completely free of charge! Companies around the world are using the software to provide solutions for both themselves and their customers faster, more easily and at lower costs.

Read our current case study showcased at the Microsoft MIX conference in Las Vegas:
http://www.microsoft.com/casestudies/casestudy.aspx?casestudyid=201425

AxCMS.net^® 7.0 introduces compatibility with ASP.NET Ajax making a huge leap forward with personalized user interface, integration into Windows Vista Media Center and enhanced document management capabilities.

FREE DOWNLOAD: http://www.AxCMS.net

AxCMS.net^® has been designed and developed as a free Enterprise Content Management System based on Microsoft .NET framework since 2001. Today with several thousands of successfully installed systems and an increasing number of satisfied customers more than 50 partners worldwide are using AxCMS.net to build custom based solutions for middle-sized and large customers.

FREE DOWNLOAD: http://www.AxCMS.net

As the largest AxCMS.net solution provider, Axinom offers development services and solutions to clients in international markets as well as training and support for AxCMS.net.