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N2 CMS

Hy, does anyone worked with N2 Content Management System(http://www.codeplex.com/n2). If yes, how does it perform, performance wise(under heavy load)? It seems pretty simple and easy to use. Adrian ...

Is there any CMS better than WordPress or should I roll my own?

I'm developing a small business website and want to give some control over content to the client but also allow myself control over the outputted code. Indeed allow the user to fill in the content gaps while not creating havoc. I'm leaning towards WordPress rather than reinventing the wheel in asp.net, which would be my code of choice,...

Web site projects vs Web Application - which is better?

I've just started using a cms (N2) which has a template basic implementation using a web site project template in vs2008. I've noticed that when compiling it it takes a lot longer than using a web application project which I am more use to. My questions are: Why does it seem to take a lot longer to compile? Which is better to use? Sho...

N2 CMS rating user control

Hi all, I'm currently putting together a site in the N2 CMS framework. One of things I'd wanted to do was to be able to have users rate various elements of the site using a fairly standard star rating-style user control or something similar. Has anyone seem anything similar to this implemented within N2 specifically? Just looking for s...

N2 MVC controller action caching?

Hi all, I've got a really odd problem when using N2 with MVC. It seems to be related to the N2 side of things, as it doesn't happen within a purely MVC only app I wrote to test. Basically, when making calls to controller actions from within a page, the controller action parameters act as if they're being cached if they get called more t...

How do you set up N2 CMS in an "enterprise" environment?

I've been playing around with the N2 CMS and I've been impressed so far. But it seems like a big jump to move from the examples to an "enterprise" grade solution. What I really need are robust permissions and roles integrated with Active Directory. So far I've played with the membership and role providers and got things sort of rolling....

Optimizing N2 CMS

N2 CMS is extremely slow to start up. From what I've heard, on the first JIT compile it loads all of itself into memory which takes 2 to 3 minutes on a fast system, but can take upwards to 10 on my local machine. This, of course, makes debugging extremely, extremely painful. Anyone know of anyway to optimize this? I've tried searching ...

Blog Functionality Within N2 CMS

I've been using N2 cms for a couple of projects using some parts from their templates project but haven't come across a solid blogging component. Basically looking for something pretty simple that does tag, categories and multiple authors. Has anyone built or used something I can plug in to N2? If not how big a task do you think itd be...

N2 CMS - My Items dont show in the tree

Hello, Anyone familier with N2 CMS ?? ive just started using it, and so far so good, but i have an issue that im sure you guys will know whats wrong. i have this simple Item class... using N2; using N2.Details; using sexy_uk_escorts_MainSite.ContentCMSItems; [PageDefinition("Home page", Description = "The Page for the home page, fea...

Nhibernate one-to-many with table per subclass

I am customizing N2CMS's database structure, and met with an issue. The two classes are listed below. public class Customer : ContentItem { public IList<License> Licenses { get; set; } } public class License : ContentItem { public Customer Customer { get; set; } } The nhibernate mapping are as follows. <class name="N2.ContentI...

Create Web Forms N2 CMS App Based on N2 Templates

I have gone through the N2 CMS documentation at length and can see no obvious set of steps to accomplish this. The task is to create a new Web Forms CMS app based on N2. Basically to take the Stripes theme and customize it. I originally downloaded the full source code and got it working on my development machine with SQL Server. After ...

N2 CMS - where are the codebehind files?

I'm using the N2 CMS system for ASP.NET. Well I say 'using', I'm really just trying to develop a tiny understanding of it. One of the things that's obstructing me is that it's set up in a way I've not seen before. Where are the codebehind files for the pages? Can anyone tell me for example, where is the code for /Edit/default.aspx? How...

N2 CMS Setup problem, missing an assembly reference <add namespace="Microsoft.Web.Mvc"/>

Hi, I'm trying to use N2 CMS. I've download the Template MVC version. I've followed the steps in the installation text. When I run it I get: The type or namespace name 'Web' does not exist in the namespace 'Microsoft' (are you missing an assembly reference?) Has anybody else had this problem? Thanks Kevin ...

How to integrate YAF in N2-based ASP.NET MVC site?

Hi, I'm building an N2-based ASP.NET MVC site, which is part of a larger Windows Azure solution. The problem I am stuck with is integrating in my project N2's own forum add-on, which is basically YAF (Yet Another Forum). I've been wrestling with the forum for the last couple of days and after re-compiling the add-on to remove the depen...

N2 for MVC - how to get Zones working?

I'm looking at the N2 CMS Minimal Example for MVC (from here) I've figured out most of it, but I see that N2 supports 'Parts' that you can drop into 'Zones'. How do I get Zones and Parts working in the minimal example? The Html.Zone() command doesn't seem to work out-of-the-box. ...