ASP.NET MVP, Orchard Core Contributor

Orchard 2.0 Vision + Q&A

Speaker: Sébastien Ros

This session was about the future of Orchard. We discussed about the next major version.

The most wanted enhancements are on Data Access, Theming, Caching, Content management and Environment.

The ASP.NET vNext has amazing new features (Roslyn, Performance, Portability).

Developing with ASP.NET vNext

Speaker: N. Taylor Mullen

Taylor is a developer in the ASP.NET team and is currently working on ASP.NET vNext.

He made some very interesting demos with a new ASP.NET vNext application explaining how to add dependencies, retrieve configuration, specify routing, add controller and view component.

Halo Waypoint Case Study

Speaker: Bing Huan Chio – 343 Industries

Bing is in charge of the Halo Waypoint blog (https://blogs.halowaypoint.com) and explained how they use Orchard as a Backend to edit the blog posts and expose theme through a REST API.

Many other people from the Halo team attended this session.

Building an Orchard SaaS - DotNest

Speakers: Benedek Farkas, Zoltan Lehoczky – Lombiq

The results of the Orchard Harvest challenge were announced:

1. MiniProfiler by Daniel Dabrowski
2. Inline Editing by Matías Molleja
3. Dynamic Forms by Cybage Software Pvt. Ltd.

Then, the Lombiq guys made a demo of a template module using the Liquid markup syntax.

They also presented their SAAS solution to host Orchard instances easily : https://dotnest.com/.

Closing Session - Interactive Breakout Sessions

The attendees worked in small teams on various subjects:

• Orchard for Beginners
• Documentation improvements
• Need help?
• Create a module
• Charts module

On the second day of the Orchard Harvest, we had the chance to attend great sessions with awesome speakers.

Angular JS + ASP.NET

Speaker : Damian Edwards

The Program Manager at Microsoft on the http://ASP.NET team presented the future of SPA applications.

The https://github.com/aspnet/MusicStore developed with ASP.NET vNext uses AngularJS, Jquery, Bootstrap, LESS, TypeScript, Grunt, Bower, …

From Boostrap to Orchard in 20 minutes

Speaker : Sébastien Ros

Sébastien demoed how to build a theme TheBootstrapMachine similar to the one used by weblogs.asp.net.

It just took him 45 minutes (Slides included ).

Workflows + Jobs API

Speaker  : Sipke Schoorstra

Sipke (Ideliverable) made a demo on an approval content workflow.

Many steps (mail, timer, jobs, …) composed this huge workflow.

Case Study: AMC Theaters

Speakers : Travis Maddox, Adam Anderson - AMC Theatres

2 developers of https://www.amctheatres.com/ exposed the architecture of their solution and the steps to adopt Orchard as a powerful CMS.

This web sites has 30 millions page views / month.

Introduction to ASP.NET vNext

Speakers : Eilon Lipton (Principal Development Manager), Scott Hunter (Principal Group Program Manager)

Scott talked about the vision of http://www.asp.net/vnext and the future of .NET.

Eilon made some impressive demos with Visual Studio 14 and the new asp.net vNext web application.

Orchard - What's Next

Speaker : Sébastien Ros

The next version should integrate new modules and enhancements like :

Audit trail, Deployment, Rest API, OData, Localization, Dynamic layout, …

The Orchard project site and the gallery will also have a redesign.

Panel - A Conversation with Core Contributors Followed by Q&A

Speakers : Bertrand Leroy, Piotr Szmyd, Sipke Schoorstra and Sébastien Ros.

The members of the steering committee answered questions about the future of the project.

This year, the 3rd conference Orchard Harvest has been organized in Redmond on the Microsoft campus on June 9th-11th.

Keynote: The State of Orchard

Speakers : Ylan Kunstler - Bertrand Leroy

Bertrand gave us a little idea of the state of the project.

Orchard has released 20 versions in the last 5 years.

666k downloads on Codeplex, 6.1 modules downloads on the gallery.

92k messages on the Codeplex forum, 3000 questions on Stack Overflow

High Density Hosting with Orchard on Azure

Speakers : Sebastien Ros

Sebastien talked about the migration of the 750 blogs of http://weblogs.asp.net/ on Azure in a single Orchard instance.

The cost to host all of these blogs is just 350$/month.

See Jon Galloway’s article for more details.

Themes, Layouts and Slideshows - Onestop

Speakers : Jorge Agraz, Eric Perez – OneStop

They are one of the early adopter of Orchard.

40+ of their websites are using Orchard and they develop module to build their own ecommerce solution.

A public repository is available to retrieve some of the modules they share with the community.

Proligence, Projects, and Open Source

Speaker : Piotr Szmyd (CTO)

Piotr listed 3 modules that Proligence share as Open Source projects.

A testing framework for Orchard, a WCF library, and a PowerShell integration of Orchard.

Created by Hellocomputer - Built with Orchard

Speaker : Samuel Goldenbaum

Samuel showed some web sites built with Orchard using web api and Backbonejs:

http://toyota.co.za/, http://www.visitjamaica.com/, http://www.fcb.com/

An Ipad app has also been created using Orchard as backend.

Azure Media Services

Speakers : Ross Gardler, Roopali Kaujalgi - Microsoft Open Technologies

The Azure Media Services module enables you to connect to WAMS, upload your assets, encode and play the videos.

It has been integrated in the core modules.

The Future of Widgets

Speaker : Steve Taylor

Steve made a little history of web components and how to bind templates in javascript.

He made a demo with Polymer.js (http://www.polymer-project.org/) to consume the youtube api and display and search videos.

The conference Orchard Harvest 2014 will be held in Redmond at the Microsoft Campus during 3 days from Monday, June 9 to Wednesday, June 11, 2014.

The sessions have been announced and will include many interesting topics like ASP.NET MVC, Azure, Angular JS.

Great speakers from the Orchard team(Sebastien Ros, Bertrand Leroy, Sipke Schoorstra, Lombiq), Microsoft (Eilon Lipton, Damian Edwards, Scott Hunter) and other contributors will share their passion about the project and how they use it with some case studies.

You can register on the web site of the event.

Please join us for the first pan-European Orchard Harvest Conference 2013.

June 13 - 14th, 2013 (Thursday - Friday)

The event will be held in Amsterdam, Netherlands at the wonderful Tobacco Theater.

We are very excited about this event and look forward to welcoming members of the Orchard Project open source community from across Europe as well as from around the globe.

For more information about the event, please visit the Orchard Harvest European Conference 2013 website.

You can register for the event directly from this website.

I had the chance to participate to the first Orchard conference organized 3 weeks ago, on September 8-9, in Santa Monica - California :

Here are some articles I wrote about the sessions I attended during the 2 days (I linked them with Microsoft translator because the original ones are in French) :

Orchard Harvest 2012 : Keynote

Orchard Harvest 2012 Sessions : The future of Orchard

Orchard Harvest 2012 Sessions : Ecommerce

Orchard Harvest 2012 : Sessions Day 1

Orchard Harvest 2012 : Managing a community

Orchard Harvest 2012 : Theming

Orchard Harvest 2012 : Performance

Orchard Harvest 2012 Sessions : Day 2

There were many speakers from the Orchard community who are also major contributors to the Orchard project.