Kentico / LearningKit-Core

Basic training website used to demonstrate the development of Kentico Xperience applications in ASP.NET Core

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LearningKit

LearningKit is a functional website for learning purposes. It demonstrates how to implement various Kentico Xperience features on MVC websites in the form of code snippets, which you can run if you connect the website to a Kentico Xperience database. See Kentico Xperience sample sites for a detailed description of this and other Xperience sample sites.

Instructions for running the LearningKit project

1. Install Kentico Xperience in the ASP.NET Core development model. When choosing the installation type, select New site.

2. Set the Presentation URL of the new site to the URL where you plan to run the LearningKit project.

3. Enable web farms in automatic mode.

4. Rename the LearningKitCore\appsettings.json.template file to appsettings.json.

5. Copy the CMSConnectionString connection string from the Xperience administration application's web.config file to the LearningKitCore\appsettings.json file.

   "ConnectionStrings": {
       "CMSConnectionString": "<YourConnectionString>"
   }

6. Copy the CMSHashStringSalt app setting from the Xperience administration application's web.config file to the LearningKitCore\appsettings.json file.

   "CMSHashStringSalt": "<AdministrationHashStringSalt>",

7. Open the LearningKitCore.sln solution in Visual Studio and run the LearningKit web application.

Accessing older versions of the repository

You can find older versions of the LearningKit project under the Releases section (open the corresponding commit for the required version and click Browse files).

Quick links:

• LearningKit for Kentico 12 Service Pack (for ASP.NET MVC 5)
• LearningKit for Kentico 12 (for ASP.NET MVC 5)