Develop Websites with Orchard CMSChris Dufour, ASP .NET MVPSoftware Architect, Compuware

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What is Orchard?• A Web Content Management System – “CMS”• Stable 1.3 Release Available Now

• Free, open source, community-focused project• You can change it, rename it, sell it, anything…• BSD license

• A quick and easy way to build small-medium sized sites

• Focused on modular extensibility

Why Orchard?• Built on Web Stack of Love

• ASP .NET MVC 3.0• Razor• C# 4 dynamics• Nuget• SQL CE 4• Webmatrix• Azure

• Active and Growing• Dedicated core team

sponsored by Microsoft

How do I Get Orchard?• Web Platform Installer• WebMatrix• Codeplex• http://

orchard.codeplex.com

demoCreate a New Website

Basic concepts:• Widget: piece of HTML content

(with code and logic) which can be mapped / assigned to pages within a website

• Layer: defines a set of rules for rendering the widgets

• Zone: defines the position of the widget within a page (available zones depends on selected Theme)

Modules• Everything in Orchard is built as a module.• Orchard comes with a bunch of pre-

installed modules (additional modules are available within a module gallery)

• A module exposes 1 or more features which need to be activated in order to be used

demoExtend the website

Call to Action

Resources• Orchard Project• http://orchardproject.net

• Orchard Gallery• http://orchardproject.net/gallery

• Free Pluralsight Training on Orchard• http://bit.ly/o5Y1Mm

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