Dexter is a free and open source project totally developed with Microsoft technologies: 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.
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
- Scheduling
- 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
- Support for source code syntax highlighter.
- RSS feed
- Statistics
- Mail notifications
- Support for captcha, feedburner, Google Analytics integration and so on.
The current release features some of the latest and powerful technologies of the .NET world: it’s built using the .NET framework 4.0 with a set of open source libraries like
NHibernate,
ConfORM,
Lucene.Net, etc and it’s focused on extendibility and simplicity.
Actually Dexter has reached a very mature release and many Italian MVPs and developers are using Dexter as engine for their technical and personal blogs.
For more info visit the
Official Site