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You've just landed on the home page of Piotr Szmyd, a .NET developer and IT entusiast from Warsaw (Poland). This is also a place where he tries to convert his recent thoughts about .NET development into some readable form (sometimes called simply - a blog). Have a nice stay!

Latest articles

  • Orchard Steering Committee elections announced

    Bertrand Le Roy, PM at Microsoft and leader of the Orchard project, has announced today the creation of Orchard Steering Committee, a board responsible for future key (including design) decisions … more

  • DI property injection in Orchard

    Tags: english, orchard, autofac

    As everyone developing apps using Orchard surely know, constructor injection in Orchard is a built-in feature. It’s used extensively throughout the whole framework and makes the … more

  • Moving to Orchard 1.2 - Impressions

    Tags: orchard, 1.2, upgrade, english

    After a short struggling I managed to successfully move my site to Orchard 1.2. Official release is just around the corner, but couldn’t help myself and built my own from the latest source:) … more

  • Orchard Advanced Menu 1.3 released!

    Tags: orchard, menu, module

    New release is finally out! I managed to fix all reported bugs, add some new goodies, do a lot of refactoring and boost performance a little bit. Hope it’ll serve you well.

    What’s new? … more

  • Removing items in Orchard

    Some of you reported an issue with deleting menus in Advanced Menu module. It was widely discussed in initial post comments and on StackOverflow. I’ve investigated that issue and was pretty … more

  • New code generation features for Orchard

    Tags: orchard, codegen, english

    Back on track after a short break! I’ve just uploaded to the Orchard Gallery a much updated version of Code Generation Extensions module.

    Some of you asked for features such as settings codegen … more

  • Featuring Orchard Advanced Menu

    Tags: orchard, module, menu

    New Hierarchical Menu module release is finally here. As you probably noticed, the module name has changed to Advanced Menu, as I guess it’s more appropriate now. Why? This is basically what … more

  • The whole truth about CS studies

    It’s so true, that I couldn’t help myself posting this

    What do you think about that?

    Is it university CS programmes that lag behind the real-world needs or new wave of students who … more

  • Customizing Orchard shapes

    Tags: orchard, shapes, tutorial

    Shapes are the basic building blocks of Orchard UI. They can be easily created and further reused by just putting an appropriate .cshtml file in your module /Views folder. This is nicely described … more

  • WDI2011 conference site runs on Orchard

    Had a hard work for a last few days rewriting the whole existing WDI2011 conference site to Orchard. Works like a charm so I think it was worth that

    As I had to assign some time to that (and, … more

  • New Hierarchical Menu coming soon - features

    Tags: orchard, menu, module

    I’m working hard to deliver the next release of Hierarchical Menu, which will arrive soon (as the deadline for OMC is nearby). I’d like to list some new features most of which many of you … more

  • Orchard cool new feature - Recipes

    Tags: orchard, recipes

    I’ve just came across a new feature which, I suppose, will be ready for the upcoming Orchard 1.1 release – the Recipes.

    It allows you to describe the startup configuration of Orchard and … more