Orchard Core, the next edition of Orchard CMS built on .NET Core/.NET 5 reached v1.0 last week. This is then probably the best time to build the Orchard Core version of DotNest - which is here!

Updates are not always flashy spectacular new features - sometimes they're just things that work the best if you don't even notice them. In the last months we've deployed a lot of these (hope you didn't notice!), so let's quickly see what we've been working on to make DotNest better for you!

It's always great to see when the technologies developed by us are serving scientific research, something we at Lombiq are quite keen on. This time Orchard and DotNest proved to be useful for the Virtual Photonics Technology Initiative, who work on open-source computational (virtual) technologies for the Biomedical Optics community. So let's see what they have built!

Show Orchard is a website for showing representative Orchard CMS (and now Orchard Core) websites all around the internet. It was started by Ryan Drew Burnett, but since he doesn't work with Orchard anymore, as announced earlier it is now maintained by our team at Lombiq Technologies. Our first task was to migrate it to DotNest, so here we are, see how we did it using basic Orchard features and Media Theme.

A while ago DotNest was part of the Azure Marketplace - and it's back again! Actually not just there, but also in the Microsoft AppSource catalog.

The Azure Marketplace is mostly aimed at businesses already using Azure. AppSource is frequently utilized by any business users to source solutions for their needs, and we believe DotNest can provide a suitable platform for a lot of web-centric business use-cases. Having these two new offers published will help drive more people to DotNest and Orchard, strengthening our ecosystem.

Do you know of somebody looking for a CMS, especially a hosted one? Ping them to check out these marketplace offers!

As we've written about before we ask you to tell us everything you wish DotNest would do differently. The DotNest developer survey is still on, but not for long: We'll close it on the 23rd. If you haven't filled it out here's the time, because you may also win a year of custom domain usage!

Just fill out the survey and you'll take part in the draw*. We'll raffle off three full-year custom domain usage prizes (worth USD 66) and let you know in an e-mail whether you've won! (Just be sure to supply your e-mail address on the form.) If you've already filled out the survey don't worry, you're eligible to win as well of course. (*Lombiq team members and their family members may not take part in the draw.)

So tell us your thoughts in the survey, enjoy an improved DotNest and win!

The GPU Day conference series organized by the Wigner Research Centre for Physics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences is dedicated to the fields of parallel and high-performance computing, visualization and data analysis in scientific and industrial applications. On the last three conferences Lombiq presented its cutting edge technology, called Hastlayer. The conference site was developed by Gábor Domonkos from Lombiq here on DotNest which is a great proof of how far you can get using only the built-in DotNest features and Media Theme for theming.

DotNest has been around for a while (4 years to be exact) and has changed a lot. We at Lombiq listened to your continuous ad-hoc feedback and improved the service where we could. This time we ask you to tell your opinion directly: What would you change to make DotNest the best developer-focused Orchard hosting platform? We've prepared a five-minute survey and it would be awesome if you could fill it out! Click here to see it, and if you tell us your e-mail address we'll address your feedback in a reply too. Thanks in advance!