Quick Start

To get quickly up and running you need to do the following:

1. Download the project and open it in Visual Studio (.NET v4.0, Entity Framework 4.1 and MVC3 must be installed)
2. Add your MVC3 webapplication to the solution
3. Place AppStart_MefContribMVC3.cs file inside your webapplication (This gets MEF up and running. Depending on the build configuration it will load the facatories at application startup time)
4. Go to your controller and make sure it inherits from TridionControllerBase (inside the Tridion.Extensions.DynamicDelivery.Mvc project)
5. Implement the following ActionResult Method:

    public System.Web.Mvc.ActionResult Index(string pageUrl)
    { 
        return Page(pageUrl)
    }
    

6. Make sure you uploaded the ‘Tridion.Extensions.DynamicDelivery.Templates’ project into Tridion and that you placed the ‘Generate Dynamic Component’ Building Block on this template. Same goes for the Page Template; place ‘Generate Dynamic Page’ on this.
7. Make sure that your Component Templates and your Page Templates have a metadatafield called ‘view’ and in here you specify the name of the view to use. For example ‘Article’ for the Component Template and ‘Default’ for the Page Template.
Needless to say that you also need (Razor)views with this name in your webapplication.
8. Publish a page to the Tridion Broker Database. Remember the URL of this page, because you need to enter this URL in the browser. (Make sure your Global.asax contains a routing-rule that routes this URL to your Controller and your newly made Action on that Controller)
9. Run!