Tutorial 1: Your first application (Legacy)
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This is kept for informational purposes as this no longer applies to v6 projects.
Extract and run the Sample database installer to deploy the database to your local SQL Server. This tutorial assumes that you keep the default name for the database "MyCRM".
Launch Visual Studio 2017 or higher. From the File menu, select New â–¶ Project.
From the templates on the left, select Visual C# â–¶ Vidyano.
Choose Vidyano Application,give your project a Name and click OK.
Give your App a Title and provide an administrative Password to secure the backend. Make sure to pick a secure password.
Click Next to continue.
On this wizard step you need to select the database that holds your application data.
Click on the Browse (...) button next to the Connection String input field.
Select the MyCRM database that you installed in the prerequisites step of this tutorial.
Click OK.
Click Next to continue.
Vidyano will store some metadata in repository tables. Select the database where these tables will be created.
By default the connection string above will be the same as your target database, in this case MyCRM.
Click Go ! to continue.
At this point, Vidyano is setting up your project.
Press ctrl+f5 or click the â–º button on the toolbar to start your application.
Use admin as your user name and the password you entered in step 2.
Now that you are in, let's add a menu item to see the customers on the database.
On the menu, click Add menu item.
Select Customers and click OK.
Wait for the application to reload and click Customers.
Congratulations, you just created your first Vidyano application!
