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Copilot Integration, Last call: Speaker application for Orchard Harvest 2026 - This week in Orchard (01/05/2026)

This week, Mike Alhayek shows how to use Copilot directly inside Orchard Core!

But before that, check out some code where you can see that, starting now, Orchard supports static data migration methods, and suppressions are no longer required for migration steps that don't use instance state.

Welcome the first contribution from Jack Liu, who made the pagination of the List Part configurable to decide whether to show a full pager with page numbers or just the arrows to navigate to the previous and next pages.

Do you know that since 2013, we've been working with Óbuda University in a hands-on way to teach web development? If you are interested in our Orchard Core courses at the university, check out our post on our site!

As we mentioned, we started publishing last year's Harvest recordings to YouTube. Check them out for some inspiration, and don't forget to apply to be a speaker for this year's Harvest by the 5th of May, midnight, anywhere on Earth!

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Getting up to speed with Orchard - Dojo Course

UPDATE (2017-11-22): Dojo Course 2 is released with new, updated videos! How to run Orchard as a developer? What are other, more advanced built-in modules I should know about? Our second Dojo Course tutorial aims to give anwers to these questions. The notes for this tutorial: Download Orchard Source 1.7.1 to run Orchard from source What is Orchard.sln When you starting working, create a copy of Orchard.sln, e.g. DojoCourse.sln A quick glance at the folder/solution structure: built-in modules, the default project (Orchard.Web) is the heart of Orchard NB: VS2012 uses IIS Express instead of Cassini web server Built-in vs. core modules CommonPart settings Tour of the Navigation feature, integrated since Orchard 1.5: menu item types, reordering menuitems, extensibility Demo: creating pages and corresponding menu items Renewed media management enhanced with content types: Media Library (since 1.7) Importing media with drag&drop Editing imported media items, creating folder structured and drag&dropping items between folders Resizing pictures inside of Media Library Guide to the built-int modules Continuously updated source code for the Course (you can upload the latest source in a zip from here) Remember: if you have any questions don't hesitate to ask them by creating a new issue in the Orchard issue tracker with the "discussion" label. Make sure to prefix your thread's title with "Dojo Course - "! We keep an eye on these issues. Haven't you enrolled yet? Why not do it some time in the near future like right now?