Today my AxConsultant colleague Sascha Poth called me to complain about a nasty AxCMS.net 9.0 behavoir: It is fairly impossible to edit an AxCMS.net ElementTemplate. Minutes later, my fellow colleague Tim Kühl called my to complain about exactly the same thing... I did a little research ... [More]

Due to heavy spam in the comment function I have shut down comments until further notice. My best wishes and thankful thoughts to the india based spamming community! Keep up the good work!

Whenever I design complex systems I tend to design the system responsibilities first. Each system component should have a clear and easy-to-understand responsibility that can be explained to my colleagues in a maximum time of three minutes. If this simple test fails the system design is still mang... [More]

Whenever you check the SQL Databases for AxCMS.net, you will wonder that all passwords are stored in clear text by default. As this should be no option for productive systems there is an fairly unknown security option described in the AxCMS.net help files: EncryptPasswordsMS This opti... [More]

Using AxCMS.net for sending out HTML mails like registration and / or activation everyone is able to understand what an macro is:Macros are scripts that will be interpreted during rendering to show specific content to the end user. Mostly unknown is the fact that macros are supported in normal ... [More]

Having tried to install AxCMS.net 9.0 on IIS 7 based Systems (Windows VISTA, Windows 2008 Server or Windows 7) you might have experienced following error message when trying to access page preview pages:    You might see a smaller amount of information if your debugging settings ... [More]

As mentioned before the AxCMS.net 9.0 introduces a new license model. From now on you really need a license for every website or you will be bugged with annoying license failure notifications. Having lots of pages this will lead to lots of licenses and the question is how to kepp track of the... [More]

Today I had a little discussion with Alexander Körner from Axinom regarding their new Licence Request Form:   Have you seen the textbox labeled "Domains"? This textbox IS mandatory from now on. That means: If you order a license for a certain domain, this lice... [More]

My first impression on AxCMS 9.0? Great! What a system. But then I wanted to download the sample project from the AxCMS.net partner area.  Surprise: An installer for the AxCMS.net? Okay. I gave it a try: At first everything worked out great but later on a litte error ... [More]

Some days ago my director asked me to transfer some data from an excel file to an existing SQL database. Beeing an AxConsultant I tend to use the CMS persistence framework to accomplish such a task. That gave me the idea for this post series: I will try to give a brief outline on the CMS persisten... [More]