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The documentation for content handlers in Orchard mentions Lifecycle Events ( http://docs.orchardproject.net/Documentation/Understanding-content-handlers ). Most events are self explanatory, but I was wondering if anybody can tell me the differences between OnActivated , OnInitializing , and OnLoading ? In firing order: OnActivated - content item object hierarchy has been created, but not yet fetched from db Used for preparing content part for further usage. Eg. setting getters and setters for lazy loaded objects, setting up delegates etc. Think of it as of a "constructor" for a given part.

I'm much happier with the quality of output I can get with MVC over webforms: hand crafted HTML that isn't full of additional machine generated gubbins (polite term). I realize of course that MVC is about a lot more than this, but concentrating on just that "view" part... I'm looking at Orchard or Umbraco for a project. I see both support Razor syntax (Umbraco just about) - but with my strong leaning to MVC Views rather than webforms, does that rule out Umbraco? All the Umbraco reading I've found so far is about the XSLT engine, as the razor syntax is brand new, which scares me :-) Orchard

I work on a project where we're considering using Orchard CMS . However, we want to use web services as data sources for some of the content items. I guess we have to change the repository implementation in order to make this possible, but I'm not sure about that. So my question is: Is my guess correct, or is it more complex? And how can it be done then? Thanks! Update: I see that Orchard's IRepository interface requires LINQ provider to be implemented. That's impossible in this scenario since the web services are offered via SOAP. I'll better further describe the scenario: The website we wish

I have Orchard CMS and I want to integrate my MVC site with it. Can anybody tell me how to do this? It depends on how complex your MVC app is, but in most cases it is straighforward. The easiest way is to wrap your existing site into Orchard module. Writing a module is described here . These are the necessary steps: Copy your site to a subdirectory under ~/Orchard.Web/Modules along with the .csproj file so that the .csproj file should be in your application root (eg. ~/Orchard.Web/Modules/MyApplication/MyApplication.csproj) In the root of your app create a Module.txt manifest file. This small