Most open source content management systems are written in PHP. However, many content management systems are being written in .Net by using C# and ASP.Net. These content management systems can compete with other popular content management systems and have the power lying behind strong .Net framework.

Some popular .NET content management systems are DotNetNuke, Rainbow, Cuyahoga and JMDCMS. All these content management systems provide more or less the same amount of flexibility and ease of use to the users. The most commonly available features are a simple yet powerful administrative panel, blogs and polls, RSS feeds and a WYSIWYG editor. In addition, user management is one more feature that is included in almost all content management systems.

Usually, search capability is an important feature of CMS deployments. It is essential when you have a huge amount of content across you site.

Another important factor in content management systems is SEO friendly URLs. A CMS should allow the users to change the URLs so that they become SEO friendly.

The most popular .Net CMS is DotNetNuke. It is a powerful and user friendly content management system which can be used to create personal as well as organizational websites. The built in browser based function can easily guide you to develop a nice website without the knowledge of markup and scripting language. Best of all, it is also open source and many windows hosting packages provides installation of DotNetNuke in the control panel itself.

Since many popular.Net content management systems are open source, there is a constant error reporting, feedback and bug correction. This makes an open source .Net Content Management System an easy choice.