Deciding between Umbraco and Orchard ASP.NET CMS

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Now that both system's are built on ASP.NET MVC, does anyone have any experience dealing with both? Looking to set up a small business site for a friend, that will eventually have an online store. I've read a lot of posts, but nothing recent ( since Umbraco 5 was released ). If you've had experience, just looking for pros and cons. Anything related to commerce functionality would be helpful as well. Thank you.

score 21 · Accepted Answer · answered Feb 23 '12 at 17:12

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Orchard has been built from ground-up around ASP.NET MVC 3. I personally prefer that one, as it's well designed, very active and backed by Microsoft. And, of course, totally free.

If you are looking for e-commerce solution - there is a new, very promising module called WebShop, along with a full tutorial.

answered Feb 23 '12 at 17:12

Piotr Szmyd

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I totally forgot about that tutorial, indeed – rfcdejong Feb 23 '12 at 21:05
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link is broken, is this the one we're looking for? http://www.ideliverable.com/blog/writing-an-orchard-webshop-module-from-scratch-part-1 – Memet Olsen Jul 12 '16 at 10:07
I guess so, yes. I'll let Sipke know his old links are down - thanks for finding this out. – Piotr Szmyd Jul 12 '16 at 14:55

score 6 · Answer 2 · answered Feb 23 '12 at 10:38

Orchard is very dynamic and u can build your site out of parts, a e-commerce module would be able to provide parts that can be rendered as partial views. Another custom module could inject other views in there. It's just very extensible and i like it. U can allow some access to the admin panel just for store administrators etc.

I don't know about Umbraco with ASP.NET MVC as base, but i know Orchard is from Outercurve Foundation which i like alot.

As far as i know there is just one real commerce module, but i don't know if it is any good

Orchard gallery - Mageliawebstore

Mageliawebstore directly

Another link http://www.magelia.org/ – rfcdejong Feb 23 '12 at 10:40 — rfcdejong, Feb 23 '12 at 10:40

score 3 · Answer 3 · answered Feb 23 '12 at 07:47

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Hi Don't know about Orchard but Umbraco V5 is ideal for a small business. The reason that you don't read a lot of post recently is that the Architecture is completely new. Expect a lot of documentation in the coming month. But you can already start with the site you get a lot of info if you are using the create template dialog in the backend which renders some default code for you.

Regarding Ecommerce I know the Package vendors of UWebshop and UCommerce are already building next versions of their products on top of Umbraco V5 so expect a fully integrated Ecommerce solution soon.

answered Feb 23 '12 at 07:47

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Umbraco v5 has been cancelled since. – Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli Sep 06 '12 at 00:33
http://umbraco.com/follow-us/blog-archive/2012/6/13/v5-rip.aspx – rtpHarry Oct 22 '12 at 10:34
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Version 6 is a bit of a mess – Chris McKee Mar 14 '13 at 14:44
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Version 7 just a re-skin – Alex Sep 24 '14 at 09:45

score 1 · Answer 4 · answered Dec 21 '12 at 16:41

This is a time-relative answer, but if you want an MVC based .NET CMS then your only real choice between the two is Orchard at this time. Umbraco 5 saw an early retirement so it's back to webforms, although as of 4.10 MVC support was bolted on and I believe there are some modules out there that give 4.x some MVC support as well. Orchard, on the other hand, is built on ASP.NET MVC 3 from the ground up and incorporates a handful of other cool technologies that make writing clean code that adheres to industry standard best practices easier.

Deciding between Umbraco and Orchard ASP.NET CMS

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