ASP.NET Core with Orchard Core Training Overview
ASP.NET Core is Microsoft’s modern, cross-platform web development framework. Orchard Core is a free, open source, community-driven framework and web content management system (CMS) that extends ASP.NET Core with a wealth of capabilities.
In this ASP.NET Core with Orchard Core CMS training, attendees learn how to use Orchard’s various built-in features for content and media management, access control and auditing, scripting, and other tasks. Students extend Orchard with custom modules and themes written in C# (including Razor syntax), HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, following the MVC design pattern.
Note: This course runs 6 hours each day for 5 days.
Location and Pricing
This course is taught as a private, live online class for teams of 3 or more. All our courses are hands-on, instructor-led, and tailored to fit your group’s goals and needs. Most Accelebrate classes can be flexibly scheduled for your group, including delivery in half-day segments across a week or set of weeks. To receive a customized proposal and price quote for online corporate training, please contact us.
In addition, some courses are available as live, instructor-led training from one of our partners.
Objectives
- Understand Orchard Core architecture and basic usage
- Manage Orchard Core sites and content
- Customize Orchard Core
- Maintain and troubleshoot Orchard Core
- Develop themes, modules, and custom content
- Optimize Orchard Core performance
- Work on Orchard Core apps as a team
Prerequisites
A solid understanding of using Visual Studio, Git (or some other source control system), C#, and ASP.NET Core MVC is strongly advised. A basic level of client-side web development (HTML, CSS, and JavaScript) is recommended.
Outline
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Introduction
Core Concepts and Basic Usage
- Orchard ecosystem
- Showcasing complex/notable Orchard apps
- Architectural overview
- How do I get my own Orchard instance?
- Using Orchard as a full, decoupled, and headless CMS
- Installing Orchard (running the setup): choosing a database engine (and its implications), recipes
- Basic site settings
Basic Site Management
- Content model and content management
- Themes and modules
- User management, roles, and permissions
Intermediate Content Management
- Taxonomies
- Widgets in Layers
- Navigation
Advanced Content Management
- Search and indexing
- Forms, Liquid and Workflows
- Auditing content with Audit Trail
Expert Content Management
- Deployment and recipes
- Queries
- SQL queries
- Other content type metadata: Listable, Creatable, Stereotypes
Customization Features
- Templates
- Multi-tenancy
- Writing recipes
- Localization
Basic Maintenance and Troubleshooting
Getting Started with Theme Development
- Structure
- Code generation templates
- Shapes
- Static resource
Advanced Theme Development
- Placement.json
- Approaches to building a new theme
Getting Started with Module Development
- Structural overview of the Orchard source
- Module structure
- Code generation templates
- Integrating with the current theme
- Dependency injection and basic services
Basic Techniques in Module Development
- Displaying entities with display management
- Basic document storage
- Abstracted file storage
Developing Custom Content
- Parts and their comparison to entities, part data storage
- Content type and content part migrations
- Drivers
- Editor and display shapes
- Handlers
- Placement
Intermediate Techniques in Module Development
- Custom routes with attribute routing and route maps
- Filters
- Events
- Permissions and authorization
- Background tasks
Advanced Techniques in Module Development
- Ways of storing settings
- Caching
- Recipes inside modules
Complementary Topics of Module Development
- Writing tests
- Middlewares
- Integrating with client-side build pipeline
Optimization
- Understanding the implications of basic built-in performance-related features:
- General guidelines
- Profiling with the Mini Profiler module
Team Training - How to Work on Orchard Apps as a Team
- How to write code
- How to share code and other application data
- How to communicate
Conclusion
Training Materials
All Orchard Core training students receive comprehensive courseware.
Software Requirements
The minimally required software is Visual Studio 2019 (any edition) or later installed with .NET Core development tools, as well as SQLite Browser for looking into Orchard’s database. Certain Visual Studio extensions and other tools can further aid development; please see the page on the recommended development environment on Orchard Dojo.
