CMS projects to learn from?

There have been开发者_C百科 quite a few questions about CMS systems but I wonder if there are any good open-source versions available that support ASP.NET MVC (preferably 2.0) and work well with SQL Server? I'm not looking for a CMS system to use, although that will probably happen too. I'm looking for a CMS system to learn from! So basically, it should follow the KISS principle. Yeah, I know about DotNetNuke. It looks okay but it feels like overkill to me. There should be alternatives, right?

And no, I'm not a beginner! My web development skills go back to the time when Internet Explorer was still displaying static pages on a Windows 3.11 system when RAM was still measured in kilobytes and with CompuServe as provider over a 33k6 model phone line. But it never hurts to learn from existing code.

There are very few CMS systems based on MVC, as the technology is so new. The only open source one I am aware of is MyTrip.MVC. It's pretty basic, so doesn't have all the bells and whistles, but seems well put together.

as far as whats readily available DNN is the best to go with and although it may seem overkill after a few hours of stepping through code you will see the patterns used and understand the DNN system is not so large as it first seems. Also the core DNN team has their code reviewed and gets much input from Microsoft corp when they want to showcase new features of the .net framework.

other than DNN there is a commercial CMS built in .net called Ektron (AKA CMS400). what a terrible system. i had the misfortune of having to use this at one job and on top of being slow it is terribly buggy as well. it has some good features but i wouldn't recommend learning from it cause the results are lack-luster at best.

good luck