Installing the recently released Anniversary Update (version 1607) of Windows 10 seems to destabilize IIS by shutting down Application Pools, thus resulting in a 503 error when trying to run an application, which is caused by some DLLs failing to load when the worker process starts. Fortunately, the lovely folks of the interwebz are coming to the rescue!

The latest version of Orchard, 1.10.1 was released not long ago (just very little after the latest major version, 1.10) and now all DotNest sites are also upgraded: so DotNest is fully 1.10.1! It took us some time to apply this upgrade, but hey, if you have almost 1000 sites to care about it's a delicate process!

Last time I showed how to develop a .NET Core 1.0 Console Application using Visual Studio Code on macOS. Now I want to quickly show you how to get started developing an ASP.NET Core Web Application. This can be used as the basis for learning .NET Core, ASP.NET Core, Entity Framework Core, etc. I am running this on macOS, but the dotnet CLI is cross platform and works the same way on Windows,...

Yesterday I briefly mentioned my experience of developing a .NET Core C# Console Application on macOS using Visual Studio Code. Since then I have made several .NET Core console applications ( and ASP.NET Core Web Apps ) for kicks and wanted to mention the steps in more detail if you are struggling with the process. First, in macOS I created a directory for my project and changed to the directory...

The .NET Core Framework was released yesterday from Microsoft. I installed it on my MacBook Pro and developed a small console application using Visual Studio Code. My main goal was to get a feel for using Visual Studio Code to create and debug simple console and web applications using C# on macOS for .NET Core. 6/29/2016 - For a step-by-step tutorial, read Visual Studio Code for Developing .NET...

As an update to our earlier how-to for setting up a developer environment with IIS and SQL Server 2014 for Orchard, here's a step-by-step guide for setting up SQL Server 2016 and SQL Server Management Studio 2016 on your machine. If you're upgrading from SQL Server 2005, we have good news for you: SQL Server 2016 is faster.

Information Architecture (IA) is all about organising, structuring and the labelling of content. The role of IA is to help the user find information and complete their goals. I’ve found that IA is by far the most debated areas during the planning phase and therefore I strongly suggest collaboratively working with at least two other people to ensure everything has been covered off.

Today I am very excited! Today, we put up my very first e-book up for distribution. It's the book on Orchard Layouts.