Orchard 1.6

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Made mainly from a collection of reusable ASP.NET components, Orchard provides a simple tool in managing content published online.

Benefiting from a large documentation base and many written and video tutorials, Orchard helps simple or advanced developers put a site together and put it online.

Orchard can be installed the old classic way, or via Microsoft's WebMatrix or Web Platform Installer.

Here are some key features of "Orchard":

· Installation wizard
· Administration panel
· WYSIWYG editing
· Menu manager
· Widgets manager
· Themes
· Modules
· Blog
· Comments moderation
· Multi-user system
· Statistics section
· Organize content in categories or via tags
· Multi-database system
· Syndication feeds
· Content scheduling
· Templated layouts

Requirements:

· IIS 7+ or IIS Express 7.5+

What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]

· ASP.NET MVC 4: We upgraded the MVC library to the latest available version.
· Razor 2: The brand new version of the Razor view engine which simplifies many parts of your views.
· Web API: The rest-enabled web framework which lets you create API from Orchard modules
· MySQL: There is now a third option in the setup screen to use MySQL as the database.
· NHibernate 3.3: We upgraded the NHibernate library to the latest available version, allowing module developers to leverage database caching.
· SysCache: A default implementation of a database cache provider.
· Performance: Some work as been done to improve performance in different places like Widgets/Layers and Blog archives.
· Precompiled target: There is a new "Precompiled" build target which generates a build without any source code
· File monitoring is off by default: When building the website using a build script - usually for deployment - files won't be monitored by default.

Via: Orchard 1.6