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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
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
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
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
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
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
Creating a content part in Orchard, even the most trivial one, involves creating many small objects – handler, driver, model (main part object), record, display and editor shapes to name a few. … more
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
Recently I ran into a problem after accidentally clearing an important column in one of my DB tables. Ooops… I was in a real hurry and haven’t thought about making a backup first Just a … more
Most of us doesn’t have the possibility to run Orchard on his own server machine. Using the shared hosting account is the cheapest and most common way to have your site up and running, but it … more
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
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
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
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
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
