Blog Posts

  • Actually using Orchard for blogging

     1/16/2017 12:21:00 AM

    I've been developing with Orchard on and off for over five years but in all that time I've never really used it. You know, properly created lots of content; used the CMS side. Recently I decided to take a break from work and go see the world. And I have a little travel blog/diary. So I've been using it a fairly regularly and although it's still early days and everything has teething issues, I've found a few basic features quite frustrating.

  • Indian Orchard community site launched on DotNest

     1/10/2017 4:31:22 PM

    As announced recently a theme for Orchard community sites, as well as free custom domain usage for them is now available on DotNest. The first such community site to be moved to DotNest is the Orchard Project Indian Community website: Abhishek migrated the website from Azure to DotNest very quickly. You can read about how his experienced in this blogpost!

  • Atlantis Programs has a new look and further updates are coming!

     1/2/2017 5:56:00 PM

    The relationship between Atlantis Programs and Lombiq started in January of 2014 - less than a year into Lombiq's existence - when we migrated their website from Wordpress to Orchard with regards to theming and content. We have worked on a few other tasks regarding hosting and performance since then as well.

  • Calling Salesforce SOAP APIs from a .NET Core or UWP App

     12/26/2016 11:19:00 PM

    Integrating with the various SOAP-based APIs on the Force.com platform has traditionally been relatively easy using the WCF client tooling for the full .NET Framework. If you're targeting .NET Core or UWP however, things are trickier because the tooling that generates the client proxy code lacks support for the SOAP headers used by these APIs for things like authentication. This post shows how you can work around that limitation by hooking into the WCF client pipeline to add the necessary SOAP headers.

  • A new website for .NET Foundation, using Orchard of course

     12/9/2016 9:29:00 PM

    If you're a .NET developer, you must have heard of .NET Foundation: they basically take care of a lot of legal and administrative stuff for you if you're running an open source .NET project. They needed a new website, they wanted to use Orchard, they came to Lombiq!

  • Migrate from SQL Compact Edition to SQL Server

     12/6/2016 8:19:00 AM

    The installation of Orchard CMS is really fast and you do not even need SQL Server because Orchard CMS can run with SQL Server Compact. SQL Compact is great for development and small websites e.g. Landing Pages. In this post I will show how to migrate from SQL Compact Edition to SQL Server in 5 simple steps.

  • Even better theming for DotNest sites

     11/28/2016 3:10:45 PM

    After some other recent improvements theming a DotNest site is now even closer to writing standard Orchard themes: with some complicated fixes around how URLs are handled (you don't want to know details, trust me!) writing a Media Theme is now a lot better experience. Templates and URL helpers in them will behave like you're used to, not to mention they will work in the same way locally during development as on DotNest.

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