Sitecore Bootcamp

Sitecore Bootcamp is a project which designed to install Sitecore via NuGet with minimal artifact size possible (90% of the files are downloaded from Sitecore cloud), flavoured with extra features:

• run-time installation (with 503 status code) - just like other CMSs do
• /Web_Config/Include folder support for web.config patching the same way as /App_Config/Include/*.config does

Check Wiki section for details.

Prerequisites (once per dev machine)

1. Run latest QA version of SIM
2. Ensure that SIM has necessary Sitecore version to install
3. Click Bundled Tools -> Generate NuGet option

Usage (for running on dev machine)

1. Create empty Visual Studio website solution
2. Open NuGet Console
3. Install-Package Sitecore.Bootcamp
4. Change NuGet server (combobox) to Sitecore NuGet
5. Install-Package SC.Sitecore.Kernel
6. Find Sitecore.Kernel in Project References
7. Modify its properties to set Copy Local = True
8. Create /App_Data folder and put there the license.xml valid Sitecore license file
9. Click F5 and choose running without debugging

Usage (for running on remote servers)

9. Install-Package SC-AsFiles
10. Deploy to the remote server 11. Open the remote server URL in browser

Under the hood

Check Wiki section for details.