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1. .Net Core SDK

2. .Net IDE of choice

3. Access to the SkySync DryvIQ SDK packages

Getting Started

All of our tutorials will begin from the command-line. This is the most portable way to work with the dotnet CLI and makes no assumptions about your operating system or IDE of choice. In order to make it super easy to create custom SkySync DryvIQ Platform extensions, we deliver a custom dotnet new template package. Your IDE should have details available on how to leverage custom dotnet new templates from within the IDE if you prefer to stay in there. If you are unfamiliar with custom templates within the dotnet CLI, you can review here and here for more information. Our first step is to install the SkySync DryvIQ dotnet new template package. 

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This will create a solution that contains the two new projects that we created in the previous step.

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Developing our Extension

Build

To build your extension, you can run the following:

cd MyCustomExtension
dotnet build

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This will build your extension in the Debug configuration as well as copy the extension into the appropriate directory on your machine for SkySync DryvIQ to pick it up if you have a local copy that you can use to test live within the product.

Test

It is recommended that as you are developing your extension that you create a suite of automated tests that can exercise the functionality of your extension. Depending on the type of extension that you are developing, SkySync DryvIQ has a number of test utilities that can be leveraged to assist in creating your automated tests. Those are discussed in other guides that dive deeper into the more specific types of extensions that SkySync DryvIQ supports. However, once you have written your automated tests then running is as simple as running the following:

cd MyCustomExtension\test\MyCustomExtension.Tests
dotnet test

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Once your extension is fully developed, then you are ready to package the extension for deployment. This can be accomplished by running the following on your extension project.

cd MyCustomExtension\src\MyCustomExtension
dotnet pack --configuration Release

This will package up the extension into a NuGet package (.nupkg file) that can be deployed to a SkySync DryvIQ instance. The package will be located at MyCustomExtension\src\MyCustomExtension\bin\Release\MyCustomExtension.nupkg.