2011 in Review: Highlights of .NET OSS Projects
23.05.12
NuGet 1.0 was released in January 2011, providing developers with a way to simplify “the process of incorporating third party libraries into a .NET application during development.” Version 1.5 was released in August, “providing support for pre-installed packages to any project template that wants it”. This means packages tracked by NuGet, such as a project using the library for jQuery, will benefit from future upgrades to jQuery without requiring manual intervention. The Orchard open source CMS receives notice from Haack for “the amount of community involvement they’ve fostered” and the growth in popularity. Per Orchard's website, the project has had over 1 million downloads when add-on modules are counted. Another open source CMS, Umbraco , is highlighted as Microsoft's own ASP.NET started using Umbraco in 2011. MicroORMs and Micro Web Frameworks: New data access libraries that simplify database access: Massive, Simple.Data,
Source: InfoQ.com