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Orchard Harvest 2014
The Orchard Harvest conference will be held in just a few days (June 9-11) on the Microsoft Campus in Redmond. If you are already using Orchard or just want to learn more about it then you definitely have to come. It's 3 days full of really great content, case studies, and exchange.
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Understanding Orchard's Database
I recently found a question on Orchard's forums asking for some explanations to query data directly from the database. Here is my take on this.
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Jint 2.0
After 6 months of hard work and wife complaints I have finished to rewrite Jint.
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Adding Social Meta Tags in Orchard
Your customer wants to boost their search engine results, so they ask you to add social media meta tags, for facebook, twitter and others.
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Creating a Contact Form Workflow
Introduction
One of the most frequent usages of the workflows module in Orchard will probably be to send an email notification whenever a contact form is submitted. This tutorial will teach you how to create such a custom form, intercept when it is submitted by a user, and finally how to send a custom email based on the contents of the form.
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Orchard Security Update
Background
On April 30, 2013 we released a security update for a discovered non-persistent XSS vulnerability targeting all versions of Orchard. For more information on this kind of vulnerability please read this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-site_scripting.
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Publishing Orchard on Azure Web Sites using Git
The Windows Azure Web Sites hosting solution is really a fantastic hosting solution. You might already know that you can even push web sites using Git, but lately this feature has been improved so that it can automatically pull an external repo you already own.
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MySql integration in Orchard
Today Orchard can be used with two different databases, i.e. Sql Ce and Sql Server (including Sql Express), which provides enough options not only for simple websites but also enterprise level ones requiring better reliability and performance. In the upcoming release Orchard will also support MySql.
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How to keep up with Orchard news
It can be hard to keep up with what's happening around Orchard. Here is a set of resources that you might find interesting either you are a discovering Orchard or you are a pro.
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Web API makes it in Orchard
Web API has been released publicly, and obviously Orchard now supports it with great help from Nicholas Mayne who made the first implementation. The question is what does it mean for Orchard to support Web API ? If you don't know what Web API is you can get some more information on the official website.
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