From 00ce083a2c5d3d921470d3db7e0095024f14d632 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Shaun Walker Date: Thu, 9 Jul 2020 10:11:28 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] Update README.md --- README.md | 9 +++++++-- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 180db82e..67b7fa0f 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -7,14 +7,19 @@ Oqtane uses Blazor, an open source and cross-platform web UI framework for build Please note that this project is owned by the .NET Foundation and is governed by the **[.NET Foundation Contributor Covenant Code of Conduct](https://dotnetfoundation.org/code-of-conduct)** -**To get started with Oqtane:** +**To get started with Oqtane using the latest code:** 1. Install **[.NET Core 3.1 SDK (v3.1.300)](https://dotnet.microsoft.com/download/dotnet-core/thank-you/sdk-3.1.300-windows-x64-installer)**. 2. Install the Preview edition of [Visual Studio 2019](https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/vs/preview/) (version 16.6 or higher) with the **ASP.NET and web development** workload enabled. Oqtane works with all editions of Visual Studio from Community to Enterprise. If you do not have a SQL Server installation available already and you wish to use LocalDB for development, you must also install the **.NET desktop development workload**. 3. Download or Clone the Oqtane source code to your local system. Open the **Oqtane.sln** solution file and Build the solution. - + +**To get started with Oqtane using an official release:** + +A detailed set of instructions for installing an official release of Oqtane on IIS is located here: +[Installing Oqtane on IIS](https://www.oqtane.org/Resources/Blog/PostId/542/installing-oqtane-on-iis) + NOTE: If you have already installed a previous version of Oqtane and you wish to do a clean database install, simply reset the DefaultConnection value in the Oqtane.Server\appsettings.json file to "". This will trigger a re-install when you run the application which will execute the database installation scripts. NOTE: If you want to submit pull requests make sure you install the [Github Extension For Visual Studio](https://visualstudio.github.com/). It is recommended you ignore any local changes you have made to the appsettings.json file before you submit a pull request. To automate this activity, open a command prompt and navigate to the /Oqtane.Server/ folder and enter the command "git update-index --skip-worktree appsettings.json"