Orchard Project
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Orchard is a free, open source
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, community-focused content management system
Content management system
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 written in ASP.NET
ASP.NET
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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 Outercurve Foundation. It is licensed under a New BSD license, which is approved by the Open Source Initiative
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 (OSI).

As per Orchard's codeplex page, the intended output of the Orchard project is three-fold:
  • Individual .NET-based applications that appeal to end-users , scripters, and developers
  • A set of re-usable components that makes it easy to build such applications
  • A vibrant community to help define these applications and extensions

Project Status

Orchard is currently available as a V1 release. The project includes an extensibility model for both modules and themes, a dynamic content type system, ease of customization, and more.

Although most of the primary developers work for Microsoft
Microsoft
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, it is not an officially supported Microsoft product, and instead falls upon the auspices of the OuterCurve Foundation.

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