Building OGDI with Visual Studio

Building and Packaging OGDI with Visual Studio

These instructions are included to encourage you to customize or extend the OGDI Project. There isn't much difference between Building and Packaging OGDI via Visual Studio from Building or Packaging OGDI using PowerShell, this is simply an alternative depending on your personal comfort level with either tool.

Opening the OGDI Solution

1. Open Visual Studio
2. Click on File, Hover over Open, Select Project/Solution... (or use the shortcut: Ctrl + Shift + O)
3. Use the address bar to navigate to %OGDI_ROOT%
4. Select Ogdi.sln
5. Click Open

Once the Solution has been opened, the Solution Explorer window should be open containing the structure of the Solution. If the Solution Explorer window does not open, it can be opened with the shortcut Ctrl + Alt + L

Building the Data Service

The Data Service is used to interact with the various Windows Azure Storage containers configured in an instance of OGDI.

Building the Data Service

Packaging the Data Service

Building the Interactive SDK

The Interactive SDK is the website in which all of the Data is displayed to a individual.

Building the Interactive SDK

Packaging the Interactive SDK