100% Microsoft .NET and open standards

If you or your IT organization has strategically chosen .NET as a development platform, or you just like developing with the .NET framework, then you owe it to yourself and your company to take a serious look at what Sitecore can do for you. Sitecore is totally focused on supporting .NET and Microsoft technologies, and is the only CMS product in the marketplace this dedicated to the Microsoft .NET platform. The advantage is that Sitecore allows you to fully exploit all of your Microsoft and .NET competencies. Sitecore even works with Visual Studio and Visual Sourcesafe out of the box, and lets you work with all the other development tools that you use and love.

Unabashedly .NET, State of the Art

Like we said, we're totally committed to the .NET framework, and we have no ambition to try to be half Unix or half Java. Nor are we a 10-year old, semi-converted, ASP technology. Instead, we're as "next generation" as it gets, built as a Rich Internet Application (RIA) based on XAML and AJAX. We believe in .NET and we believe in Microsoft and we're working hard to allow you to fully benefit from all of your hard earned Microsoft experiences. We like to say that Sitecore is more Microsoft than Microsoft.

Sitecore’s open structure and .NET programming languages eliminate proprietary approaches to content organization and presentation, giving you access to over 1,300 classes and 5,000 methods that are public and well documented. This lets you focus on cool projects, not tedious conversions.

And speaking of programming languages and open standards, all content in Sitecore is naturally stored as XML. We allow you to freely mix your .NET code with (automatically pre-compiled) XSLT. This gives you faster and more reliable results. We think going fast is important too.