Composite C1 is a free open source .NET

.NET Framework

The .NET Framework is a software framework that runs primarily on Microsoft Windows. It includes a large library and supports several programming languages which allows language interoperability...

-based web content management system

Web content management system

A web content management system is a software system that provides website authoring, collaboration, and administration tools designed to allow users with little knowledge of web programming languages or markup languages to create and manage website content with relative ease...

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History

Composite C1 development began mid 2007, it reached 1.0 in January 2009 and until September 2010 is was sold as a commercially licensed product primarily to customers in northern Europe.

September 29th 2010 Composite released Composite C1 2.0 as free open source software under the Mozilla Public License, pledging to continue development on the free core and providing paid services .

October 2010 Composite C1 was added to the .NET 4 enabled parts of Microsoft's Web App Gallery (Web Platform Installer 3 and WebMatrix).

March 2011 Composite C1 2.1 was released making SQL Server support part of the open source project.

Source Code and Community Ratings

The source code, issue tracker and forum for Composite C1 is hosted at http://CompositeC1.codeplex.com/ - the CodePlex site also contain user ratings and reviews that can not be moderated.

Modules (C1 Packages)

• Content versioning
• Newsletters
• Extranet
• Page comments
• Issuu
  Issuu
  Issuu is an online service that allows for realistic and customizable viewing of digitally uploaded material, such as portfolios, books, magazine issues, newspapers, and other print media. It integrates with social networking sites to promote uploaded material. Issuu's service is comparable to what...
  
   reader
• RSS
  RSS
  -Mathematics:* Root-sum-square, the square root of the sum of the squares of the elements of a data set* Residual sum of squares in statistics-Technology:* RSS , "Really Simple Syndication" or "Rich Site Summary", a family of web feed formats...
  
   / Twitter / YouTube feed readers
• XML to SQL Server migration
• Google Search (CSE) integration
• Microsoft Search Server integration
• Package Creator
• Data Forms Renderer
• ASP.NET MVC Player
• (this list is not exhaustive)

Features

• Multilingual, UNICODE
  Unicode
  Unicode is a computing industry standard for the consistent encoding, representation and handling of text expressed in most of the world's writing systems...
  
   support
• Multiple document interface
  Multiple document interface
  Graphical computer applications with a multiple document interface are those whose windows reside under a single parent window , as opposed to all windows being separate from each other . Such systems often allow child windows to embed other windows inside them as well, creating complex nested...
  
  
• Publishing workflow
• Content security
• WYSIWYG
  WYSIWYG
  WYSIWYG is an acronym for What You See Is What You Get. The term is used in computing to describe a system in which content displayed onscreen during editing appears in a form closely corresponding to its appearance when printed or displayed as a finished product...
  
   editor
• XHTML
  XHTML
  XHTML is a family of XML markup languages that mirror or extend versions of the widely-used Hypertext Markup Language , the language in which web pages are written....
  
   compatible
• XSLT
  XSLT
  XSLT is a declarative, XML-based language used for the transformation of XML documents. The original document is not changed; rather, a new document is created based on the content of an existing one. The new document may be serialized by the processor in standard XML syntax or in another format,...
  
   developer tooling
• .NET 4 and ASP.NET
  ASP.NET
  ASP.NET is a Web application framework developed and marketed by Microsoft to allow programmers to build dynamic Web sites, Web applications and Web services. It was first released in January 2002 with version 1.0 of the .NET Framework, and is the successor to Microsoft's Active Server Pages ...
  
   4 based
• Transparent XML
  XML
  Extensible Markup Language is a set of rules for encoding documents in machine-readable form. It is defined in the XML 1.0 Specification produced by the W3C, and several other related specifications, all gratis open standards....
  
   and SQL Server
  Microsoft SQL Server
  Microsoft SQL Server is a relational database server, developed by Microsoft: It is a software product whose primary function is to store and retrieve data as requested by other software applications, be it those on the same computer or those running on another computer across a network...
  
   support via LINQ
  LINQ
  Linq is a word-based card game from Endless Games, introduced at the American International Toy Fair in 2005.Game play requires at least four players, two of whom are dealt cards with the same word, while the others receive blanks. The goal is to gain points by correctly naming the players with...
  
  
• Side-by-side support for both ASP.NET Web Forms
  ASP.NET
  ASP.NET is a Web application framework developed and marketed by Microsoft to allow programmers to build dynamic Web sites, Web applications and Web services. It was first released in January 2002 with version 1.0 of the .NET Framework, and is the successor to Microsoft's Active Server Pages ...
  
   and ASP.NET MVC
  ASP.NET MVC Framework
  The ASP.NET MVC Framework is a web application framework that implements the model-view-controller pattern. Based on ASP.NET, it allows software developers to build a Web application as a composition of three roles: Model, View and Controller. A model represents the state of a particular aspect of...
  
  
• Support for templating using ASP.NET Master Pages
• Run on Internet Information Services (IIS)
  Internet Information Services
  Internet Information Services – formerly called Internet Information Server – is a web server application and set of feature extension modules created by Microsoft for use with Microsoft Windows. It is the most used web server after Apache HTTP Server. IIS 7.5 supports HTTP, HTTPS,...
  
   6, 7 and 7.5, WebMatrix, Visual Studio 2010, Windows Azure
• (this list is not exhaustive)