Migration from Orchard CMS to Umbraco

Umbraco may be the best .Net based CMS for people with a string developer background.   Umbraco is open source with free download, but is also backed by a company 

There are a few other good choices. 

People with strong background in Visual Studio may feel most comfortable with installing Umbraco through NuGet.  The installation should be seamless and the website can start running almost instantly:

1. Create a blank ASP.Net empty web project.
2. The project exclude some folders and files by default.  It is a mistake.  They need to be included for publishing.  They include:
   1. css
   2. Media
   3. Views
   4. bin (if you install packages locally).
   5. Some other files one may find when problems arises by using<customErrors mode="Off"/> .   
3. Build the project.
4. Run the project the debug mode to start the default configuration.
5. Write down the user name/password entered for future use. 
6. Select "Customize"
7. Choose MS SQL Server.
8. Enter SQL Server name, user name (SQL login), password.
9. Choose Starter Kit, and the website will be running in less than a minute.
10. Publish the project to the production server with VS.
11. Start editing and enjoying the brand-new Umbraco from the published website.

To manage the contents, one uses the so-called Backoffice by accessing http://host/Umbraco.   

Migrating data from Orchard to Umbraco is not easy.