Yet Another Web Framework?

This is an as of yet unreleased new product, developed by Softel vdm, Inc. and Mike van der Meulen. It is currently used to develop and host the new WEO Report service.

It builds on ASP.NET MVC 2 (and 3) to create a web framework for developers. While it has many attributes commonly found in today's CMS like DotNetNuke, Umbraco, Drupal, etc., it instead focuses on rapid application development. Tightly integrating with Visual Studio 2010, it lends itself to rapid module development, offering built-in CRUD (Create, Read, Update, Delete) module generation, taking advantage of ASP.NET MVC, Data Annotation, Templated Helpers, UiHint and many other innovative features made possible by ASP.NET MVC and ASP.NET 4. Rather than being all things to all people, it narrowly focuses on offering 100% of the features that will satisfy most average websites and offers a platform for rapid custom development.

Of course, it makes extensive use of jQuery, jQuery-UI, Ajax and many client-side plugins (like jqGrid, menus, syntax highlighters, lightbox, CKEditor 3, color selection, tabs, overlays and many more). It combines these with automatic features like JavaScript and CSS minifier, http response compression (take a look at the source for this page) without burdening the developer with administrative tasks. These are not compile-time automated features, but instead run-time features as the website is used (for the first time).

For the site administrator, it offers site management, automated backups, one-click module upgrades from a central server, scheduled tasks and of course complete control over user/role authorizations.

YetaWF also takes a new approach to localization by being designed from the ground up with localization in mind (again, without burdening the developer with administrative tasks). Pages, modules, down to SQL tables or file data are fully localizable. Adding/removing languages is possible at any time, not just at design-time.