Visual studio solution set up

ruben verschueren asked on August 27, 2018 14:11

I'm new to Kentico and just finished the essentials and advanced training. I would like to separate the Website and the solution so that I would have to build the solution to see my changes in the website. Is there a way to install an empty site without the solution files? or even better can I define a separte folder for it.

I have been searching the documentation and google for a while, but couldn't find an answer, it this not recommended? Personally I find it cleaner to have a website folder that only contains the necessary files to run the website and not any of the solution and project files.

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Brenden Kehren answered on August 27, 2018 14:36

Install a web app vs. a web site in the Kentico Installer. This will allow you to separate out the website and your custom files. Kentico's Technical Avangalist, Bryan Soltis, has a really good article about both.

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ruben verschueren answered on August 27, 2018 14:39

Thank you Brenden. That was what I was looking for. I knew there had to a way and I was missing something.

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ruben verschueren answered on August 28, 2018 14:44

a follow up question if I may. I have the solution set up and included a few xml files to sync with the CI system. this works well, but now I need to get the changes in my local site back into my VS solution.

what would be the best way to do this? The documentation suggests adding the entire CI folder to source control, but I would prefer to only have the files that are necessary for the project. Although that is not a big issue.

I apologise if this sounds weird. I'm coming from a sitecore developer background where we have TDS projects in Visual studio. these allow you to sync certain items with your local site easily. So I'm trying to recreate a simple version of that.

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Brenden Kehren answered on August 28, 2018 16:25

Looks like you already have a question for this on Stack Overflow.

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ruben verschueren answered on August 29, 2018 08:43

Hi Brenden. Didn't realise they show up here as well. should have looked. This one can be closed.

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