Orchard is a free, open source, community-focused

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platform using the ASP.NET MVC framework. Its vision is to create shared components for building ASP.NET applications and extensions, and specific applications that leverage these components to meet the needs of end-users, scripters, and developers. Orchard is delivered as part of the ASP.NET Open Source Gallery under the .NET Foundation. It is licensed under a New BSD license, which is approved by the

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Project status

The project includes an extensibility model for both modules and themes, a dynamic content type system, ease of customization, localization and more. Although several of primary developers work for

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, it is no longer an officially developed Microsoft product, and is under the auspices of the .NET Foundation.

References

External links

* * Orchard Themes and Modules Gallery
Orchard: Microsoft's open-source CMS platform is (re)born

Why You Should Pay Attention to the Development of Orchard CMS

Boston Orchard CMS User Group
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