Project Orchard

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    Orchard is currently working to deliver a V1 release. We invite participation by the developer community in shaping the project’s direction, so that we can publicly validate our designs and development approach.

    Our 0.5 release is available from our Orchard CodePlex.com site, and is easy to set up on your local machine using the Web Platform Installer.

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    This latest release of Orchard provides compelling features and experiences for a range of audiences (end-users, designers, developers, and web professionals). However, our primary target audience with this release is developers who want to customize and extend the CMS system.

    In addition to built-in support for rapidly building Web sites, Orchard provides a flexible core API and extensibility model for defining custom content types, part, and fields that can be used to create a variety of different types of sites. Our intent with this release is to raise interest among developers for writing Orchard modules on the Orchard CMS platform, and to give them the tools they need to build, package, and share their custom modules with others.

    This is a pre-V1 release intended to solicit feedback - it is not intended for production use; many features remain to be developed and/or stabilized, and the APIs will certainly still evolve and change going forward. That said, there is alot you can do with Orchard today, so please check it out and let us know what you think!

    Please also check out our How to Contribute page for more information on getting involved with the project.

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