Umbraco - the simple, flexible and friendly ASP.NET CMS
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For the first time on the Microsoft platform a free user and developer friendly cms that makes it quick and easy to create websites - or a breeze to build complex web applications. umbraco got award-winning integration capabilities and supports your ASP.NET User and Custom Controls out of the box. It's a developers dream and your users will love it too. Used by more than 57.000 active websites including Heinz.com, Peugeot.com, NAIAS.com and Microsofts documentinteropinitiative.org website you can be sure that the technology is proven, stable and scales.

More info at http://umbraco.com

Exploring the repository
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Most contributors will work on their own fork and should pick the branch in which they need their fix. For more information see:
http://our.umbraco.org/contribute/guidelines-for-core-contribution

Exploring the source
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The Umbraco source code is never required for you to start building sites. If you are not using the source code for debugging purposes or to contribute to the source then please download the binaries listed at http://umbraco.codeplex.com

With that said, the Umbraco solution can be opened in Visual Studio 2010 with SP1 installed or Visual Studio 2012.

Contributing
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Umbraco is Open Source which means you can contribute to make it great!
Read all about it at http://our.umbraco.org/contribute

Forums
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We have a forum running on http://our.umbraco.org for friendly community support.

Documentation
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Our documentation section provides help on installing and using Umbraco including API reference documentation: http://our.umbraco.org/documentation

Submitting Issues
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Another way you can contribute to Umbraco is by providing issue reports, for information on how to submit an issue report refer to our online guide at http://our.umbraco.org/contribute/report-an-issue-or-request-a-feature