Microsoft Releases Open-Source Content Management App- Oxite

Microsoft has released an early version of an open-source content management system (CMS) called Oxite, that developers can use to build blogs or large websites. Oxite is an open source, standards compliant, and highly extensible content management platform that can run anything from blogs to big web sites. Oxite includes a number of important blog functions that can be complex to implement, according to Microsoft. The framework offers many features common in blogs, including pingbacks, trackbacks, anonymous or authenticated comments with the option to moderate comments, RSS feeds for any page and a Web administration panel.

Oxite is targeted at developers who want to learn ASP.NET MVC and not targeted for beginners wanting to set up a blog. ASP.NET MVC lets developers use ASP.NET to build Web applications using an architecture called model-view-controller. Oxite also has the ability for users to easily add new Web pages and sub-pages.

You can download Oxite from codeplex.