Orchard Core Samples

A sample web application demonstrating how to build a Modular and Multi-Tenant ASP.NET Core application using the Orchard Core Framework. You can also watch a video providing a step by step demonstration of these samples here https://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/On-NET/Sbastien-Ros-Modular-ASPNET-apps

Contents of the solution

ModularApplication

An ASP.NET Core MVC application that references the modules.

MultiTenantApplication

An ASP.NET Core MVC application that references the modules and starts two tenants with different modules enabled.

Module1

A sample module containing an ASP.NET Core MVC controller and a view.

The action can be accessed at /Module1/Home/Index.

Module2

A sample module registering a custom middleware.

• /hello emits hello world
• /info emits the name of the current tenant

Running

From Visual Studio 2017

Open the ModularApplication.sln solution file and start the Web applications.

To test Module1 open the /Module1/Home/Index url. To test Module2 open the /hello url.

From the command line

Open either Web application folder, ModularApplication or MultiTenantApplication, then run these commands:

• dotnet restore
• dotnet build
• dotnet run

Multi-tenant

The tenants are prefixed with /acme and /contoso. For instance, accessing /acme/hello will invoke the middleware defined in Module2. You can check which tenant is invoked by accessing the /acme/info or /contoso/info urls.

The tenants can be modified by editing the tenants.json file and restarting the application.

Creating new Modules

Modules are .NET Standard 2.0 class libraries that reference the OrchardCore.Module.Targets Nuget Package.

The Orchard Core Nuget packages are available in a MyGet feed at this url: https://www.myget.org/F/orchardcore-preview/api/v3/index.json

From the Web application, just reference a module project and it will be available.

Optionally modules can be packaged as Nuget packages and made available on Nuget or MyGet, including static files and Views. More examples of modules can be found on the Orchard Core CMS application on this repository: https://github.com/OrchardCMS/OrchardCore

Creating new modular applications

A modular application only needs to reference one of these targets packages:

• OrchardCore.Application.Targets: Allows the application to reference and import modules.
• OrchardCore.Application.Mvc.Targets: Same as OrchardCore.Application.Targets but also references the OrchardCore.Mvc module
• OrchardCore.Application.Nancy.Targets: Same as OrchardCore.Application.Targets but also references the OrchardCore.Nancy module