Content Management - ASP.NET Recommendations [closed]

Answer 1

I saw an article (written by ScottGu) about a cms named axcms. You can try it.

Answer 2

My own favourite is Tridion, which can be used for either .NET or Java-based sites. It's not free, though, if that's what you're looking for.

Composite may also be interesting - also not free, but it has a possibility of a trial period.

Answer 3

I'd try a slightly more targeted search:

[asp.net] "content management"

Filter it to just questions tagged "asp.net", and ensure that you're searching for the phrase Content Management, rather than the two words.

A lot of it comes down to your definition of "Content Management" really. I've spent the last 5 years working professionally with things like Microsoft's CMS, and recently a bit of MOSS Web Content Management, and before that on two or three bespoke CMS that we'd written for a publishing house, so I consider a CMS to be a complete site building tools, focused around publishing multiple types and styles of content.

On the opensource/free/cheap side I've looked at few recently and found the following:

• N2 CMS - This is what I've settled on using, mainly because they have a working MVC implementation, and I want to learn that, but it's also the closest I've found to my definition of a CMS
• Umbraco - Close second, let down by the lack of MVCness at the time.
• Graffiti CMS - Didn't really cut it with me as a CMS, more of a glorified blogging engine
• DotNetNuke - VB, and I work in C#. Great if what you really want is a portal however.

Just my thoughts to back up the usual bland lists.

Answer 4

Microsoft has released "Orchard"... This looks to be a solid CMS implementation on the ASP.NET MVC platform.

http://orchard.codeplex.com/

Answer 5

I'm coming to this discussion a few years late, but I'll pitch in some thoughts from the procurement side for prosperity. The landscape changes, but for commercial CMS, I'd look at the vendors recommended by research firms. For open source solutions, I'd look for a large active community, documentation, and a support model you could live with.

We started research for a CMS in 2008 with online searches and the ultimate CMS list http://www.cmsmatrix.org/. (boggles the mind how many "CMS's" are out there)

We ended up looking at ".NET-friendly" CMS recommended by Gartner and Forrester. Gartner's "Magic Quadrant" of leaders/challengers and niche/visionaries and Forrester's "Wave" point out both feature sets as well as marketplace and vendor roadmap.

A good request for proposal (RFP) or comparison tip isn't to ask "do you feature X?" but to compare and see which solution does it better.

At the time, Kentico and Sitefinity were on our evaluation list as .NET-friendly. We also considered DotNetNuke, though there was a mild objection to "becoming DNN programmers" rather than staying mainly .NET (I'm sure there's a mis-perception in there, no offense).

We ended up comparing RedDot and Tridion and found Tridion to be a better fit for us because of its .NET API and flexibility.

Answer 6

You might want to check out Umbraco - completely written in C#/.NET, with a very powerful programming API (using lots of XSLT for transformations).

They offer both a free community edition as well as commercial versions.

Marc