Building a CMS in ASP.NET MVC

Question

I\'m curious to know if any basic CMS code has been written for ASP.NET MVC.

The reason I ask is, I\'m making a data-driven website for a client, and I\'ve already s

Answer 1

Heve a look at AtomicCms it's a free open source content management system based on ASP.NET MVC 1.0 http://atomiccms.codeplex.com

Answer 2

Check for Orchard ;-) It is based on asp.net mvc.

Answer 3

Also, kooboo is interesting http://www.kooboo.com

Answer 4

If you are still looking, I've published my new open source CMS here:

• MVCwCMS

I'm actively working on it so I will push more updates soon.

Answer 5

Here is also a quick summary as to how Telerik Sitefinity does it:

http://www.sitefinity.com/mvc-cms

in brief - allows you to plug in standard system.web.mvc.controller classes as widgets, lets you use the API for anything including model binding, standard Razor for a view engine etc.

Answer 6

Piranha CMS is well suited to bolting on to an existing application. The author of it describes why and how here. To quote straight from that source:

"Our focus is content management and to have a transparent and lightweight API for developers. Piranha CMS has almost no components or helpers that render any HTML at all, it simply provides a database, a manager interface and a routing mechanism for retrieving the correct data for the current request.

In the case of you having an existing website you could actually bypass the routing completely, add one page at a time in the manager interface and then manually load the Page model in you existing page. This would allow you to keep your original application exactly the same but manage the content form the manager interface."