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Create wiki-page for initial setup

Open linkdotnet opened this issue 4 years ago • 4 comments

Ideas:

  • [ ] having a wiki page how to set up everything
  • [ ] Interactive setup when the blog is loaded the first time

For the second one we need way more stuff beforehand.

linkdotnet avatar Sep 24 '21 06:09 linkdotnet

Do you have a wiki page started? I have cloned the repo and have been modifying it for my blog. I ran into a couple of road blocks and would like to contribute the setup documentation to smooth the path for others.

For example, I set up a localhost docker sql database to persist the posts. It took me a while to realize that the way implement the IEntityTypeConfiguration<T> creates the tables. A very useful and advanced (to me) technique that could use some more explanations.

bizcad avatar Oct 17 '22 18:10 bizcad

Hey @bizcad thanks for reaching out. Unfortunately I did not create a real wiki-page guiding through the onboarding process. So this is up for grabs :D. I had hoped the README.md is a good enough starting point.

I do understand the confusion that the database is created automatically. My thought process was that I wanted to align all the storage provider (RavenDb, SQLite, SQL Server) to behave the same. Maybe something which at least should be explained in the README.md.

I will take this up. Let me know if you encounter other issues or you need a helping hand. Happy to discuss.

linkdotnet avatar Oct 18 '22 06:10 linkdotnet

Hello Steven,

Thanks for getting back to me.

I love the idea of the database being created automagically. I will start using this technique in my development. It makes so much more sense to let the EF and DBContext handle it.

I use SQL Express in a Docker container for my database. For a lot of my applications I do not need, or want to pay for a full blown Sql Server. SQL Express is great for small databases.

I would be happy to put in a pull request to change the README.md

Nick Stein

bizcad avatar Oct 18 '22 15:10 bizcad

Hey Nick,

today I added a very small passage to the README.md explaining that on SQL the database will be created automatically. A more in-depth explanation is much welcome. Especially because from my point of view everything "seems logical", but that tunnel vision is often times not that great ;)

So if you have time to spare, I would welcome a helping hand.

Cheers Steven

linkdotnet avatar Oct 18 '22 20:10 linkdotnet

Closed by #257

linkdotnet avatar Aug 02 '23 15:08 linkdotnet