We shipped Orchard 0.8 on Monday and it's the last release we will make before 1.0, which is scheduled for January 2011. We think it's a pretty nice release in that it wraps up the UI story for the platform. 1. New theme engine with Razor and Clay ASP.NET MVC, on which Orchard is built, supports alternative view engines. Orchard does too, and 0.8 is the first release where the new Razor view engine is the default. All existing views in Orchard have been moved to Razor. An introduction to Razor syntax can be found here: http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2010/07/02/introducing-razor.aspx We also improved the way view models are built in Orchard: in a CMS, the type system needs to be flexible enough to allow for the dynamic creation of new...(read more) ...
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