Recently, I have introduced my simple framework to everyone. It looks OK to me and my friends / my colleagues so I’d like to write down some notes for building your own one based on it. Hopefully, this post will save your time.

1. Download the latest source code here
2. (Option 1) unzip archive.zip file above to D:\my-simple-framework (for instance) and then use PowerShell script to transform everything
   • open Windows PowerShell (run as administrator)
   • change directory to D:\my-simple-framework\scripts\Buildify
   • execute .\transform -sourcePath “D:\my-simple-framework” -newIdentifier “YourClientName”
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3. (Option 2) an alternative way is to use some software products such as Bulk Rename Utility and Notepad++
   • download Bulk Rename Utility and install it if not yet
   • rename all the folders, all the files whose name contains VietHoang to YourClientName
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   • download Notepad++ and install it if not yet
   • open it and press Ctrl + F to open “Find” dialog
   • select Find in Files tab
   • find VietHoang inside all the files in project folder then replace to YourClientName
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4. Open YourClientName.Sitecore.sln via Visual Studio and make sure you build it successfully
5. Refer to Step-by-step Guide in order to add your own tweaks if necessary
   • Note: for Docker way Sitecore version 9.3 => let’s generate SSL certificate as we want to access Sitecore sites with HTTPS protocol by using mkcert
     • open Windows PowerShell (run as administrator)
     • execute choco install mkcert
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     • change directory to D:\my-simple-framework\Docker\traefik\certs
     • execute mkcert “*.YourClientName.local”
6. Renew all default Sitecore items’ ID if possible so that it’s able to play with multiple Visual Studio solutions in shared Sitecore instance
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7. Renew all Assemblies’ Guid if possible so that it’s able to play around with multiple Visual Studio solutions on a shared Sitecore instance
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My suggestions

• I highly recommend that you should install some Visual Studio extensions below as well:
  1. SlowCheetah – XML Transforms: it’s helpful for creating transform files
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  2. File Nesting: it’s helpful for creating nest files
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• Take a look at this post How to know the changed files between the releases

Happy Sitecore Coding!