A simple console application that makes use of Umbraco services within Umbraco 7.7.6.
- You have a custom Umbraco website that you've built. Using a windows scheduled task, you want run a umbraco console application and programmatically use the Umbraco Services to modify your content.
- Visual Studio 2015+
- Intermediate knowledge of Umbraco Cms
- Clone the repo to your machine
- Open the .sln in Visual Studio, set the startup project to be
My.Umbraco.Console - Build (F5) and ensure nuget packages are downloaded
- The console should run and you'll see the root contents and children listed
My.Umbraco.Console - A simple Program.cs that will list the root / child nodes of My.Umbraco.Website.
In order for Umbraco to work, there is a a postbuild event that copies the .config files from My.Umbraco.Website to the current output folder e.g. /Debug/bin/config/*.config.
The app.config is actually a direct copy of the web.config that can be found in the root of My.Umbraco.Website (I manually copied the contents of the web.config into the app.config).
When we override the GetBootManager there 2 lines that declare and set a data directory. This is when you're using connection string that includes |DataDirectory|. You should be able to remove/comment them out if you're using SQL Server and not an .SDF.
protected override IBootManager GetBootManager()
{
var dataDirectory = new DirectoryInfo("..\\..\\..\\..\\src\\My.Umbraco.Website\\App_Data\\");
AppDomain.CurrentDomain.SetData("DataDirectory", dataDirectory.FullName);
return new ConsoleBootManager(this);
}
Finally, since my machine is x64 and this example is using an Sql CE .SDF for the Umbraco Database, I actually needed to copy the /bin/x86/ folder (that contains the x86 binaries for SQL Compact Edition) from My.Umbraco.Website so we don't get an error during startup that complains about File Version Mismatch between ADO.NET versions
My.Umbraco.Website vanilla Umbraco 7.7.6 with the default starter package installed. To access the back office, open the .sln in Visual Studio and set the startup project to be My.Umbraco.Website, you can login with
- URL: http://localhost:64667/umbraco/
- U:
admin@myumbracowebsite.com - P:
password123
There are a some examples of how to use the Umbraco services inside a console app. However I needed an up-to-date example using the latest version of Umbraco 7.7.6. I need a quick simple example with minimal code to get started.
- Morten Christensen - original Umbraco console example - @siterector https://twitter.com/sitereactor
- Lars-Erik Aabech - forked Umbraco console example of Mortens above - @bleedo https://twitter.com/bleedo (please do check out Lars-Eriks site for some great Umbraco related blog posts)
- John Bear - Initial Commit - madebybear
This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE.md file for details.