Getting up to speed with Orchard - Dojo Course

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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?