Orchard is a free, open source, community-focused project aimed at delivering applications and reusable components on the ASP.NET platform. The current version of Orchard, Orchard 1.2, has been written using ASP.NET MVC 3 and the Razor view engine. Much like other CMS solutions, modules can be used to extend the functionality of the system. Orchard is the 3rd most downloaded project on ASP.Net MVC 3 based projects on CodePlex. In this talk we'll discuss why Orchard is selected to develop the new East Toronto .NET User Group website ( http://easttorontoug.com ) and we'll build the user group website from the ground-up using Orchard's admin panel and flexible module and theme system.

1. Develop Websites with
Orchard CMS
Chris Dufour, ASP .NET MVP
Software Architect, Compuware
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2. 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

3. 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

4. How do I Get Orchard?
• Web Platform Installer
• WebMatrix
• Codeplex
• http://orchard.codeplex.com

5. demo
Create a New Website

6. 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)

7. 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

8. demo
Extend the website

9. Call to Action

10. Resources
• Orchard Project
• http://orchardproject.net
• Orchard Gallery
• http://orchardproject.net/gallery
• Free Pluralsight Training on Orchard
• http://bit.ly/o5Y1Mm

11. Q&A

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