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Re-invent is proud to announce that its advanced hosting infrastructure is compatible with MS Visual Studio Lightswitch 2011.  Visit our Lightswitch hosting spotlight page for more information on ordering hosting plans.

Microsoft Visual Studio LightSwitch is a development tool that enables you to build applications quickly and easily. LightSwitch 2011 makes it simple for users of all skill levels to build and deploy polished, user-friendly applications.

LightSwitch contains templates as a guide to lay out your content, providing a professional look and consistency among your forms and allows you to easily customize the business logic and rules unique to your business, which means that you can provide a tailored experience that best meets your users' needs..

Building business applications just got a whole lot easier - introducing Visual Studio LightSwitch 2011. LightSwitch is the simplest way to build custom business applications.

Orchard CMS is a free, open source content management system that allows users to rapidly create web sites on the Microsoft ASP.NET platform. Orchard CMS is built on a flexible extensibility framework that enables developers and customizers to provide additional functionality through extensions New to CMS? Learn more about Orchard CMS, then purchase a web hosting account from Re-invent and get going in minutes.      

Three Options for Orchard CMS Hosting Installation at Re-invent 

1. Manual - You can install Orchard manually by uploading the files to the webserver. 

2. WebMatrix - You can install Orchard using WebMatrix.

3. Control Panel Web Application Gallery - We have added easy one-click installation of Orchard in our Control Panel Web App Gallery integration. 

NOTE: You can use SQL CE4 or you can use SQL 2008 Server which is provided free with all Re-invent Hosting Plans.