Install Bower, Gulp, Typescript and Typescript Definition Manager globally by typing the following commands on the console/terminal:
npm install -g bower
npm install -g gulp
npm install -g typescript
npm install -g typings
npm install -g tsd
Installation instructions - Part 2 (Run application in Visual Studio 2015, only for Windows users)
Download and install Visual Studio 2015 from here.
Open Visual Studio 2015 and install any update related to ASP.NET Core (check the notifications).
Download the source code and open the solution.
By the time you open the solution, VS 2015 will try to restore Nuget, NPM and Bower packages.
In case it fails to restore NPM and Bower packages, open a console and navigate at the src/PhotoGallery path where the package.json and bower.json files exist. Run the following commands:
npm install
typings install
bower install
gulp build-spa
Open appsettings.json file and alter the database connection string to reflect your SQL Server environment.
Open a console and navigate to src/PhotoGallery where the project.json exists. Run the following commands to enable migrations and create the database:
dotnet ef migrations add initial
dotnet ef database update
Build your application and run it. You can use username:chsakell and password:photogallery to sign in or register a new user.
Installation instructions - Part 2 (Run application in Visual Studio Code, recommended for Linux/MAC users)
Download and install Visual Studio Code from here.
Download the source code and open the src/PhotoGallery folder in Visual Studio Code.
Open a console/terminal and navigate at the src/PhotoGallery path where the package.json and bower.json files exist. Run the following commands:
npm install
typings install
bower install
gulp build-spa
Run the following command to restore Nuget Packages (dependencies)
dotnet restore
Application uses SQL Server so in case you want to run the app in Linux or MAC simply set "InMemoryProvider": true in appsettings.json and skip to the last 3 steps to run the app.
Open appsettings.json file and alter the database connection string to reflect your SQL Server environment.
Open a console/terminal and navigate to src/PhotoGallery where the project.json exists. Run the following commands to enable migrations and create the database:
dotnet ef migrations add initial
dotnet ef database update
Host your application using Kestrel by typing the following command while at src/PhotoGallery:
dotnet run
Open a browser and navigate to http://localhost:5000/
You can use username:chsakell and password:photogallery to sign in or register a new user.
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