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A year ago, I wrote a scary post about RSS in Orchard . RSS was one of the first features we implemented in our CMS , and it has stood the test of time rather well, but the post was explaining things at a level that was probably too abstract whereas my readers were expecting something a little more practical. Well, this post is going to correct this by showing how I built a module that adds RSS feeds for each tag on the site. Hopefully it will show that it's not very complicated in practice, and also that the infrastructure is pretty well thought out. In order to provide RSS, we need to do two things: generate the XML for the feed, and inject the address of that feed into the existing tag listing page, in order to make the feed discoverable...
In this screencast, I'm publishing an Orchard web site and its SQL Express database to a shared host using WebMatrix. Read More...
We shipped Orchard 0.8 on Monday and it’s the last release we will make before 1.0, which is scheduled for January 2011. We think it’s a pretty nice release in that it wraps up the UI story for the platform. 1. New theme engine with Razor and Clay ASP.NET MVC, on which Orchard is built, supports alternative view engines. Orchard does too, and 0.8 is the first release where the new Razor view engine is the default. All existing views in Orchard have been moved to Razor. An introduction to Razor syntax can be found here: http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2010/07/02/introducing-razor.aspx We also improved the way view models are built in Orchard: in a CMS, the type system needs to be flexible enough to allow for the dynamic creation of new...
Before I joined Microsoft seven years ago, I had spent a couple of years building a Web CMS. It wasn’t open-source unfortunately but the experience convinced me that most public-facing web sites would shortly use some form of CMS. I also forged strong opinions about the right level of component granularity that a CMS must implement. For the last year and a half, I have been fortunate enough to work with a talented small team within ASP.NET and with a growing community from all around the world on building a new Web CMS on top of ASP.NET MVC. Today I am very happy to invite my readers to check out some of the results of that work: earlier this week, we released version 0.5 of Orchard . We are far from being done, but this is an important milestone...
NoSQL as a movement is an interesting beast. I kinda like that it’s negatively defined (I happen to belong myself to at least one other such a-community). It’s not in its roots about proposing one specific new silver bullet to kill an old problem. it’s about challenging the consensus. Actually, blindly and systematically replacing relational databases with object databases would just replace one set of issues with another. No, the point is to recognize that relational databases are not a universal answer -although they have been used as one for so long- and recognize instead that there’s a whole spectrum of data storage solutions out there. Why is it so hard to recognize, by the way? You are already using some of those other data storage solutions...
Master Pages are a wonderful concept that as developers we highly value. It’s the sort of pattern that just looks like the right thing to do (to our twisted, concept hungry developer minds) and that even makes you wonder why we haven’t done it that way since the beginning of time ( 1990 ). For the record, master pages were invented by David Ebbo , who is behind a lot of the smartest things in ASP.NET. Just in case you have no idea, what are Master Pages? Before master pages, sharing layout between pages was done using includes (or user controls). For example, your typical hello world page might have looked like this: <% @ Page Language ="C#" %> <% @ Register TagPrefix ="include" TagName ="header" Src ="...
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