Armand Datema wrote:
I was an avid user of PA and NA. I did quite a lot with it and (ab)used it more than once for solution it was not developed for :)
I have been redoing client sites that either use these modules to 2SXC. I even blogged and provided a sample for an NA like module . News module with 2 helper modules , news_recent and news_category http://2dnn.com/Blog.aspx demo here http://2dnn.com/2sxc/2DNN_News.aspx
I also converted over PA installs to use 2SXC. This is also not that difficult and the template possibilities ( because of razor ) you can do makes your apps much more powerful. And because it was all razor temaplting all the features i have been asking for from Scott I could easily code in myself.
Because you don't have the wizard options that PA has the setup of your initial data might take some longer to do but generally I would say that the initial setup of what I did for PA and now with 2SXC, 2SXC takes me double the time to set up but after that I have much more options to use and display the data and extend it myself. All the limiting PA template workarounds are not needed anymore as you can just code up what you need.
I do plan to release a starter package of a 2SXC app that you can compare to a standard PA install but its still in planning stages and there are only so much hours in a day. The only thing I am still tweaking is an advanced search as powerful as PA but i am making progress
The 2 sites mentioned in this thread don't seem to have all the bells and whistles of PA so from what I see I could set this up as fast in 2SXC as in PA. This is for me as I have been using this for years now but once you get the hang of 2SXC and the content type way of thinking it will be second nature for you as well. I think 90% of all my current websites is 2SXC
Feel free to ask questions on the 2SXC discussions on codeplex , more than enough people around to help you
Armand
If there wasn't a property agent module (which looks like it is going to be the case very soon as Scott doesn't answer tickets anymore or fix simple bugs) we wouldn't bother using 2sxc or even DNN as you are always limited by what they can do, have to put up with their bloat, slowness & bugs.. For twice the time it would take us to buid a site in pa we can whip something up using mvc / entity framework / web api / odata & angularjs. The only the only reason we don't at the moment is becuase of lack of some small clients budgets (who would want to double their budget if they do not have to?).
@Armand - as someone who has been burned many times by using 3rd party modules I highly recommend that you try to make things without involving third parties as you always get burnt in the end..
I started off using a module for Dreamweaver called Interakt (http://www.interaktonline.info) that would help me build php & classic asp applications.. It was an awesome module until Adobe aquired it & then killed it off.. I then found DNN & used many, many 3rd party modules that no longer exist which has cost me tons of time, money, research & dev to replace.. I have also tried xmod, form & list etc to create my own modules but found that are all too limiting. I have used (& still use) openwebstudio & found it absoultley awesome as you can build anything with it. But as with DNN, I feel that openwebstudio is dying a slow death..
I wasted almost 10 years of my time & countless $$$ by using & relying apon 3rd party modules.. As the saying goes - do it once & do it right.. It takes very little time to learn how to do things propery. I started with mvc / entity framework (code first) & then moved onto web api / odata & angularjs & will never look back (unless something like propery agent can halve my dev time - which I am sure that I will need to rewrite in a few years time anyway).