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In the spirit of Rock, this documentation is community driven. You're encouraged to get involved by contributing to the documentation. Having said that, we have some Rock Wiki Guidelines we'd like you to follow and we also want to keep the site very organized. Go ahead and edit existing pages as needed, but please add your new, proposed topics to the proposed topics page and our documentation masters will review and put them into the table of contents.

Table of Contents

About Rock

• Basic Rock Concepts
• Rock Requirements

Getting Started - Rock Dev 101

• Installing Rock ChMS
• Building Your First Custom Block
• Creating a Theme
• Before you go too much farther - Naming Conventions
• Coding Standards
• UI Guidelines

Additional Essentials - Rock Dev 202

• Blocks
• Block Field Attributes
• Storing/Retrieving User Preferences
• Securing Access
• Validation
• Relative Paths
• Adding to the HTML Document Head
• Sharing Objects Between Blocks
• Popup Windows
• Filesystem Location
• Performance Considerations & Caching
• Entities
• Code First
• Validation
• Change & Audit Logging
• Helper Methods
• Defined Types
• Exception Handling
• Error Pages
• Notifications
• UI Toolkit
• Rock:Grid
• Rock:GridFilter

Advanced Stuff - Rock Dev 303

• Performance Related Considerations
• Transactions
• SQL Profiler
• Custom Field Attributes and FieldTypes
• Extension Methods
• Context Aware Blocks
• Rock Jobs
• Rock Security

Packaging Plugins & Themes

How to manually package your Rock Themes.

Internal Overview for Rock Core Developers

• Solution Structure
• Rock (Framework) Project
• RockWeb Project
• The Other Projects
• System GUIDs
• Git Branching Strategy
• Writing & Running Unit Tests
• Exporting and Packaging

Rock Administration

This section will inevitably be moved somewhere else, but in the mean time, here are some things that we've captured and don't want to loose.

Reference

A few things that are not covered in the documentation are here in the reference section.