Umbraco CMS with ASP.NET MVC - Part 1 Introduction

March 29, 2014·3 min read

Brief about this post

Getting Started with Umbraco MVC — Getting Started with [Umbraco] *(Note: The original article is no longer available online)* MVC

This post describes about agenda and upcoming articles regarding building a simple website using Umbraco CMS with ASP.NET MVC framework.

In this Series of Posts on Umbraco we will be learning about...

Installation of Umbraco CMS
Setup [Visual Studio] (Note: The original article is no longer available online) Solution
Concept of MVC Recipe in Umbraco
[Information Architecture] (Note: The original article is no longer available online) in Umbraco
Presentation Architecture in Umbraco

Precap on Article Series

Installation of Umbraco CMS

In this post, we will see how to set up Umbraco CMS using Siteroot zip package, required configuration in [IIS] (Note: The original article is no longer available online), and creating local-only domain name in ‘hosts’ file.

SETUP Visual Studio Solution with Umbraco CMS

In this post, we will to see creating Visual Studio solution for Umbraco CMS. This step will help us in understanding how to version control source files of the CMS then we will be moving slowly in [.NET] (Note: The original article is no longer available online) Developer’s comfort zone which is 'Visual Studio'.

Concept MVC Recipe in Umbraco CMS

In this post you will get the concept of how ASP.NET MVC works in Umbraco CMS. And put all Umbraco things together for better utilizing the CMS abilities in ASP.NET MVC framework. Thus this post will be more on theoretical part with some appealing pictures.

Information Architecture in Umbraco CMS

In this article we will get to know about importance of Information Architecture, also known as 'IA' in CMS world. We will see how to define Information Architecture based on sample HTML5 site that I have randomly picked from the Internet for simplicity.

Presentation Architecture in Umbraco CMS

This article will dive into technical details of coding the website. Through this post we will complete the website building with Umbraco and MVC. And learn little something about debugging Umbraco sites in Visual Studio.

Concluding

So guys this was all about a precap on the upcoming articles on building a very simple website using Umbraco CMS with ASP.NET MVC framework.

Later on I will link all the respective articles in the series to make it easy to navigate on this topic.

Till then keep reading and if you like this post please like, comment and share.

Cheers :)