Contribute to 2sxc / EAV - Backend

Warning

This is meant for people who want to contribute to the underlying source code of 2sxc and EAV.

If you only want to USE 2sxc / EAV, then you do NOT need this.

Prerequisites

➡️ Make sure you prepared your local development environment according to the instructions in Contribute to 2sxc / EAV - Setup.

Main Repositories and Principles

The Backend requires two projects to be set up, according to instructions before. They are:

1. c:\projects\2sxc\2sxc\ - the main 2sxc C# repo,
2. c:\projects\2sxc\eav-server\ - the EAV C# repo, which is required by the 2sxc backend

The solution to open is: C:\Projects\2sxc\2sxc\Src\2sxc Multi-Target.sln.

When you open the solution using Visual Studio, it will automatically install any missing NuGet packages, and you should be able to build the solution without any errors. A few things to keep in mind:

1. When you open it the first time, it may take a while to restore all the NuGet packages and build the solution for the first time, so be patient.
2. To ensure that the DLLs etc. are copied to DNN/Oqtane, make sure you have the 2sxc-build.config.json file.
3. The solution has various build configurations
   1. use the default Debug configuration for development
   2. use Testing to run unit tests
   3. use Release to create the final build for distribution (this will also create the ZIP and NuGet packages in C:\Projects\2sxc\InstallPackages\)

Tip

It's a very large code base with about 50 projects, which are not documented in detail. If you wish to make contributions, it may help to contact @iJungleboy.

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History

• Created Backend docs 2026-02-12