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#Macaw Umbraco Foundation ###Work in progress!

Foundation library used at Macaw Netherlands. Some features are:

  • Standard Examine Search implementation
  • Paged result views
  • Frontend developers friendly dynamic models for Templates and Macro
  • Basic property editor converters
  • Testable controllers
  • "Distributed" file caching with MvcDonutCaching
  • Several Html helpers like ToJson...

Currently build on top of Umbraco 7.1.4

##Installation First create an empty website project and set the target framework to .net 4.5. Extract the Umbraco 7.0.1 files into the same directory (except the App_Code and Bin folders). If not already done.

PM> Install-Package Macaw.Umbraco.Foundation PM> Install-Package Macaw.Umbraco.Foundation -IncludePrerelease

Currently only available as pre release version.

##Examples and documentation Both the example project and the nuget package only use the Umbraco Core libraries. To run a website follow the instructions by ben-morris to setup and run your project. (In case of the example project don't overwrite any file)

http://www.ben-morris.com/using-umbraco-6-to-create-an-asp-net-mvc-4-web-applicatio

  • The example database username is "admin" and the password is "password".
  • The nuget package and the example project both use Autofac. See the implementation folder for more information and / or customization.