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AI framework for .NET, New View Roles permission - This week in Orchard (28/08/2026)

Want to give support staff a way to see role definitions without letting them change anything? A new View Roles permission does exactly that.

Need to cap how long, or short, a text field's content can be? Text Field settings now support Minimum and Maximum length validation.

Building AI features outside of Orchard Core? CrestApps.Core brings the same AI Suite services to any ASP.NET Core project.

And signing into DotNest just got easier, with social sign-in via Microsoft, Google, GitHub, or Facebook.

This week's changes come from Matt Varblow, Antoine Griffard, and Mike Alhayek.

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Orchard university subject at Óbuda University

Start Date: 2/11/2013 11:00:00 AM End Date: 5/13/2013 1:00:00 PM The world-wide first Orchard university course started in February, 2013 at Óbuda University in Budapest, Hungary, with 23 students subscribed. The attendees were guided through the basics of the administrative usage of Orchard, then the basics of ASP.NET MVC, theme development and module development. Our two lessons per week covered the most important parts of module development so students got the necessary knowledge to expand their Orchard skills further on their own. Students got their marks on their team projects: every team (consisting of maximum four students) developed and presented an Orchard application with a custom-developed theme and module. These were the final projects, delivered: a website's design which hosts tutorials for a certain image editor application, mostly theme development a personal website for a stylist with a nice theme and a custom-developed voting module a website built around recipes with self-developed content and some theme development a website for buying and selling car parts with a more complex module and some theme development a website for ordering pizza with self-developed content and some theme development All those who got to the "finals" and participated in a project got good marks, with an average of 4,22 (from 5).

Orchard CMS "Jump Start" video series

These videos are not new but are definitely not outdated but still valuable resources: Brent Arias created a 4-part series about the most important concepts of Orchard, covering parts of the dashboard that a user will use most. The below video is just the start; check out Brent's Youtube channel for the other ones!