Introducing Snapshot

by Aaron Powell 18. May 2010 01:31

Over the past few weeks Shannon and I have been dropping hints on Twitter about an exciting new project we’ve been working on. We’ve now started dropping hints including the name Snapshot.
Well we thought it was about time that we stopped playing the tease and brought more to the table.

What is Snapshot?

In short Snapshot is a tool for Umbraco, giving you the ability to export a full ASP.NET site from the CMS.

Darren Ferguson tweeted about a similar product he’s working on, generating HTML files from Umbraco.

But we’re going up a notch, we’re exporting a fully working ASP.NET website from Umbraco.
This means that macros will work, .NET User Controls will work, everything you’d expect from an Umbraco site.

Just there’s no CMS at all. In fact, you shouldn’t require any of the Umbraco assemblies to run it!

 

Enough talk, here’s a video!

Snapshot introduction from The Farm on Vimeo.

Categories: .Net | Snapshot | Umbraco

Comments

5/18/2010 2:53:46 AM #

Why Snapshot?

Why Snapshot?

FARMCode.org

5/18/2010 12:06:14 PM #

Very impressive! My package is developed for a client who wants to host Umbraco generated static content on Apache so removing any .net dependencies from the equation is a requirement rather than a limitation.

Darren United Kingdom

5/20/2010 3:49:02 AM #

Fair enough Darren, I was assuming it was something like that (I know of a client who had a similar requirement with another .NET CMS).

But with Snapshot you should be able to host it on Apache using Mono ;)

AaronPowell Australia

5/20/2010 9:30:38 PM #

Wow! This looks amazing!

I can see a lot of interesting perspectives in this. Nice work guys.

Is it released yet btw?

/Jan

Jan Denmark

5/21/2010 3:23:29 AM #

No, we haven't released it yet, it's currently under development. Keep an eye on the blog as to when it gets released

AaronPowell Australia

5/24/2010 8:19:25 PM #

looks great!
what do you think will be the popular usage for that?
how it behaves when the site use hierarchic masterpages?

eran United States

5/24/2010 8:19:46 PM #

looks great!
what do you think will be the popular usage for that?
how it behaves when the site use hierarchic masterpages?

eran United States

5/25/2010 3:09:34 AM #

Hierarchical master pages are fully supported.

As for why see here: farmcode.org/post/2010/05/18/Why-Snapshot.aspx

AaronPowell Australia