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Rock Developer Documentation!

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 core team will review and put them into the table of contents.

Table of Contents

About Rock

• Basic Rock Concepts
• Rock Requirements
• Installing Rock ChMS
• Adding Pages and Blocks

Getting Started - Rock Development 101

• Building Your First Custom Block
• Creating a Website Theme
• Creating a Check-in Theme

Additional Essentials - Rock Development 202

• Before you go too much farther - Naming Conventions
• Coding Standards
• UI Guidelines
• Blocks
• Entities (General)
• Defined Types
• Exception Handling
• UI Toolkit

Advanced Stuff - Rock Development 303

• Performance Related Considerations
• 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 Project
• RockWeb Project
• The Other Projects
• System GUIDs
• Git Branching Strategy
• Writing & Running Unit Tests
• Other Coding Suggestions
• Creating Rock Migrations
• 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.