Announcing Oqtane 2.0 for .NET 5
November 11, 2020
Strategically timed with the release of .NET Conf 2020 and .NET 5... we are pleased to announce the official release of Oqtane 2.0, an open source Modular Application Framework for Blazor.
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Upgrading Oqtane
August 07, 2020
It is recommended that you upgrade Oqtane on a regular basis in order to ensure you are running the latest framework version. Running the latest version provides you with the latest fixes and features, and also helps protect your installation from security vulnerabilities. As a result it is our goal to make the upgrade process as automated and streamlined as possible.
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Installing Oqtane on IIS
June 30, 2020
It is possible to install Oqtane without using Visual Studio. However in order to do this you need to become familiar with the specifics of hosting a Blazor application. In this article we will install an Oqtane release locally on a Windows 10 machine using IIS.
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Oqtane Builds Momentum With 1.0.1 Release
June 23, 2020
Since releasing Oqtane 1.0 at Microsoft BUILD 2020, the response by the .NET community has been tremendous. We attribute this phenomenon partly to the excitement around Blazor WebAssembly and partly to the fact that Oqtane offers a unique value proposition for modular software development which has really struck a chord with developers worldwide. In the past month there has been a total of 57 pull requests submitted by 8 different contributors, pushing the total number of project commits over 1000, and sowing the seeds for a passionate project ecosystem.
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Announcing Oqtane 1.0... a Modular Application Framework for Blazor!
May 20, 2020
Strategically timed with Microsoft BUILD 2020 and the release of .NET Core 3.2... we are pleased to announce the official 1.0 release of Oqtane, an open source Modular Application Framework for Blazor.
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Migrating from DNN to Oqtane
January 20, 2020
In previous blog posts I have said that Oqtane was "heavily influenced and inspired" by DNN. I realize this statement is rather vague so I thought it may be helpful to provide a bit more detail in order to help clarify the similarities and differences.
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Oqtane Philosophy
January 14, 2020
Most products are created with some core principles in mind. These principles provide a central theme for all major product decisions. The theme for Oqtane is "performance" which is highlighted by the Oqtane brand name whose root word "octane" is a standard measure of the performance of engine fuel. Performance is a general attribute and for a framework like Oqtane it needs to encompass a wide variety of characteristics such as the speed of installation, familiarization, development, deployment, and interac
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Oqtane vs DNN
January 06, 2020
The question of Oqtane vs DNN has come up numerous times in recent months. In general it seems that people are trying to understand the rationale behind creating a completely new open source project as opposed to evolving the existing DNN project. In order to answer this question it is helpful to step back in time and review the events which got us to where we are today.
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File Upload in Blazor
September 22, 2019
Uploading files is a very common requirement in most web applications however Blazor does not currently have a native file upload component. Steve Sanderson blogged about this a few weeks ago and even posted a sample project on Github. Oqtane has a need to upload module and theme packages for installation at run-time so we had also implemented our own solution some time ago - which I was happy to discover closely aligned with the approach suggested above.