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Setting up your Development Environment

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Getting started

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Step 1: Clone the Repository To begin, clone the desired repository to your local machine. The repository is located at https://github.com/CacheCows/CowPress

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Step2: Go to the CowPress folder in your shell. Open up your unix shell, cmd.exe, powershell or similar and cdto the CowPresssub-directory in the repository (the one that contains the .csproj file among other things).

Step 3: Database Setup with EF Core Now, focus on initialising your database using Entity Framework (EF) Core.

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  1. EF Core Installation: If not already installed, you’ll need to install the EF Core tooling. This can be done via the .NET CLI (Command Line Interface) using the command: dotnet tool install --global dotnet-ef, and you might need to specify version here, e.g. dotnet tool install --global dotnet-ef --version 8.0.0. This tool simplifies database operations like migrations and updates.

  2. Updating the Database: Execute dotnet ef database update to apply the latest migrations to your database. This command updates the database schema to match the current state of your models.

Step 4: Launch the Application
Option 1: Start using your Visual Studio. To avoid certificate errors you can use http as per the image, or you can set up the local dev certs if you want.
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Option 2: to start sing CLI, use dotnet watch run to start the application. This command also enables hot reloading, automatically applying changes to the running application without needing a manual restart.

You should now be able to look at the website on http://localhost:5207

Now lets take a look at Using Cowpress

Last update : November 20, 2023
Created : November 16, 2023