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Welcome to Dexter Blog Engine

Dexter is a free and open source project totally developed with Microsoft technologies release under Microsoft Public License (Ms-PL).

History

It’s born as a technology demo but it has evolved in time thanks to the community feedback and support to become a powerful blog engine. The original goal of the project was to create a case study for a MVC implementation (the idea of Dexter was born when ASP.NET MVC was not yet released), so the founder Ugo Lattanzi created the project and afterwards some of the most important Italian developers started to use it and to contribute.

Features

Actually, Dexter supports most of the top features required by a blog engine, like:

• Categories and Tags (with the capability to assign multiple categories to a single post);
• Comments;
• Trackback;
• Pingback;
• Scheduling async activities like disable comment, backup, antispam and whatever you want;
• Complete integration with Windows Live Writer, not only for publishing posts but also for creating pages (for example, the About or the Contact page).
• Internal and very powerful search engine with related posts, Did u mean and highlight;
• RSS feed;
• Mail notifications;
• Support to feedburner;
• Support for Plugin;
• Plugin Store with support for versioning;
• Users and Roles;
• Dynamic Pages is like a small CMS. You can create your own pages from Backoffice or directly by Windows Live Writer;

Some tech stuff

The current release features some of the latest and powerful technologies of the .NET world: it’s built using the .NET framework 4.5 with a set of open source libraries like RavenDB, Castle Windsor, Quartz.NET, NuGet etc and it’s focused on extendibility and simplicity.

Release

There isn't a release yet. But we are working hard. Follow us on twitter (@DexterEngine or @imperugo) to be updated

How to Contribute

As all Open Source Project, here in Dexter we are looking for people to include in our team. There are two ways to participate on Dexter project:

• Share contributions;
• Join the team;
• Fork the repository and request a pull;

In all cases you can work with us in different areas like, code development, patch submissions, plugins, documentation, translations, feedback and more, so don't hesitate to contact us!

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