A weblog about developing umbraco - an open source .NET based Content Management Platform, written by Niels Hartvig

	6.30.2004 It's actually happening - umbraco 2.0 is shipping!!! (almost) FINALLY! I've been waiting for this moment for incredible long time, promised it way to many times - but now it's here... The Content Management Platform that I have been working on for over three years; umbraco 2.0 WILL be released as a public beta on Friday the 2nd under an open source license (GPL/LGPL). It's absolutely amazing. It's still a beta however mostly aimed at developers as the editor-part still lacks a bunch of ui. But no more showstoppers! For editors its way to featurepacked to mention here, but here goes some details for developers: Unlimited and free template system (no limitations, both html and xhtml compatible) Flexible datamodel for easy creation of own datatypes with custom fields (point and click) The innovative macro-system, allowing developers to create pieces of reuasable modules using either your favorite .NET language (by usercontrols or custom controls) or by combining the umbraco xml-data with XSLT. umbraco can communicate with your public properties and even make UI for the editors without a single line of extra code! You can use your existing .NET controls without any modifications or you can choose to implement a simple interface (five lines of code) and get easy access to all page-data within your control. The whole umbraco interface can be modified with custom tree-views, custom editor fields and custom buttons. All in just a few lines of code, making umbraco integration with your existing systems a piece of cake! umbraco will even automatically add your new code to it's differentiated security model. An API with a nice bunch of methods for easy creation of new content programmatically, spoken urls in XSLTs, and a lot of other nice things :-) And don't wanna store data in the umbraco database? Fine, you can use the brand-new data publishing feature in umbraco 2.0, redefining ease in datalisting once for all. And it speaks with both webservices and databases! And I kid you not - it's free. Free as in 0$ and free as in free distribution. Welcome to a new dimension in Content Management on a Microsoft platform ;-) Because people keeps asking "how do I make money on this", the answer is I do. By donations, by service-agreements, through an umbraco-developer network and by consulting. Licenses as a business model is just so ninetees ;-) 3 Comment(s)... Comments: This post has been removed by the author. # posted by Niels : 6:29 AM Sounds cool, I'll try it out for sure. After all this time of reading about it, it's well due time to see what all the fuss is about :) It'll be fun to see if I can make any sense of all that microsofty code though. # posted by Fez : 7:05 AM Ulven kommer, ulven kommer... he he, kunne ikke lade være ;-) # posted by grafix : 7:18 AM Post a Comment Older stuff here...		More banners here... To the weblog frontpage Email / Contact info umbraco - my company Call me through Skype Blog archive RSS Feed commonme.org publicMIND urgent.dk asynkron Hr. Röser Interbreed OpenLife Loudthinking BlogBot.dk Tim O'Reilly - and his books steve mcconnel joel spolsky steve jobs bruce eckel