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Friday, May 13, 2022

Optimizely CMS 12 Installation Breaking Changes for Visual Studio 2019

Last October I wrote an article to act as an addendum to the Optimizely Documentation for starting a new CMS site using CMS 12 and .NET 5. Since then there have been some updates to the documentation and the packages involved. Today I got bit by one of them because I am using Visual Studio 2019, and if you are too this might save you some trouble.

Starting a New Project with Optimizely CMS 12 and .NET Core - updated!

Optimizely recently released CMS 12 based on ASP.NET Core (now .NET 5). With it comes a slew of new changes, including how to set up a new project. To help developers get started with Optimizely CMS on the new framework, Optimizely released a guide to creating a starter project. After working through it myself and talking with a few developers I decided to write a more detailed guide with a few additional notes to better help you get going. I updated this in May 2022 with some changes based on the updated Optimizely documentation (yay!).