Orchard Fundamentals
A walkthrough of how to setup, use and configure the Orchard Content Management System
What you'll learn
This course introduces the Orchard Content Management System. Orchard is an open source, extensible CMS for the .Net platform built on ASP.Net MVC3, C#4 and the Razor view engine. This course will show you how to get started with Orchard, from setting up a new site, to customizing the theme and adding your own content.
Table of contents
- Introduction 1m
- Orchard Modules 2m
- Exploring Modules 4m
- Modules in the Dashboard 1m
- Modules in the Orchard Gallery 2m
- Downloading and Installing the Search Modules 2m
- Setting up and Configuring Search 2m
- Search Demo 2m
- Orchard Content 3m
- Exploring Content Types 3m
- Content Parts Demo 3m
- Creating a Custom Content Type 2m
- Creating Custom Content Items and Adding Fields 4m
- Adding a Bing Maps Part 3m
- Summary 1m
- Introduction 1m
- What are Shapes? 2m
- Shape Rendering 3m
- Dynamically Adding Properties to Shapes 3m
- Basic Shape Template Overriding 3m
- Shape Placement 2m
- Placement.info File 2m
- Layout Shapes Part 1 3m
- Layout Shapes Part 2 3m
- Content Shapes and Placement 3m
- Placement.info Demo 3m
- Enabling Shape Tracing 4m
- Using Shape Tracing to help with Placement 2m
- Using Shape Tracing to Create Alternates 3m
- Using Shape Tracing to Explore the Model 2m
- Using Shape Tracing to Override Code Generated Shape 3m
- Summary 1m
About the author
Kevin Kuebler is a Senior Software Engineer for ViewRay, an innovative medical device company which produces a unique radiotherapy system for the treatment of cancer. He has been developing software for over 15 years, working primarily with Microsoft's .Net platform and related tools. He enjoys building applications for various form factors from the desktop to the web to mobile phones, and has successfully led a wide range of projects from small smart client apps to large enterprise web applicat... more