As you may have hear of it from the Orchard forums, the Associativy Orchard graph knowledge base platform has been just released. Orchard Hungary already has two graphs:

• A graph automatically generated from blogposts using tags
• An Orchard knowledge base graph containing an organized graph with links to the most important Orchard resources

I hope you'll find these graphs exciting and Associativy useful!

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Recently I needed software for one very specific task: given two databases, calculate their (data and schema) differences and generate an appropriate change script. There are dozens of solution for this, but I tried many till I found two that satisfied the following criteria:

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Sounds a bit perverted, right? Well, I admit it is, but recently I had to move a legacy PHP site to Orchard and it had a forum that had do be kept. Since there is not suitable forum solution currently for Orchard, migration was not an option, so somehow the existing punBB forum had to be integrated into the Orchard site. Now is this possible? For me, it wasn't...

I've made multiple approaches, let me describe them.

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This one you will like. Let's take a look at src\Orchard.Web\Core\Contents\Views\Admin\List.cshtml where you can see these lines:

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The Orchard web project file, Orchard.Web.csproj contains a line that tells the compiler to include (among others) modules and themes in the result package too. That one currently has a slight, but important glitch: the pattern for excluding Mercurial-related files is broken. Therefore, if you have subrepositories in you solution (like it's frequent with modules or themes) their .hg folders will also be in the deploy package. With big repositories, besides deploying a bunch of unnecessary files, this can even cause errors when publishing:

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I don't want to use this blog to advertise my modules, but now I'm very excited about the new versions of Combinator, the css and script bundling and minfying Orchard module: version 1.4 is a quite mature release that can be used in any environment (in a Web Farm scenario too as long as distributed caching is implemented or signals can propagate through the nodes). The alpha release (actually releases: alpha 2 is out now) includes a long awaited feature of image sprite generation! This mean limited support at the time as Combinator currently only understands "background-image" declarations. Background images should be ones with no-repeat or being on a container thats size doesn't exceed the size of the image.

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Today I updated a bunch of my modules, if you're a user, check them out!

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And now, the final episode of the Orchard maintenance trilogy: we will look into the installation and configuration of a Windows SMTP Server, including some steps about security, and set up IIS and the Orchard.Email module to be able to cooperate. Before that, a short roundup on the previous episodes:

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