This article helps you set up the environment for local development and debugging of Driven Turnkey application in Visual Studio.

Download MDriven Turnkey

To start developing your Turnkey Application locally in Visual Studio you need to download the latest version of MDriven Turknkey from CapableObjects site. Download link. Then unzip downloaded archive.

Setting Up Visual Studio

Open downloaded MDriven Turnkey in Visual Studio. You need to choose option "Open -> Web Site" and choose "Application" folder which was extracted from the downloaded archive. Then you need to enable SSL in your project. Choose your Application in the Solution Explorer and enable SSL in the "Properties" window below.

Enable SSL for the application

When SSL is enabled, copy SSL Url and paste it to "Start options" in "Start Url" field (Right-click on Application in Solution Explorer).

Paste SSL Url in "Start options"

Also, you need to check that you will build the application with a correct version of .NET Framework.

Check version of .NET Framework

Connect with the data and model in the cloud

To connect your local MDriven Turnkey copy with data and model in the cloud open MDrivenServerOverride - NotInEffect.xml

<code>
<root>
  <notActive>
    <MDrivenServerOverride MDrivenServerPWD="someOtherpwd">https://SOMETURNOTHERKEYSITE.azurewebsites.net/__MDrivenServer</MDrivenServerOverride>
  </notActive>
  <!-- root/MDrivenServerOverride tag will be used by the Turnkey web app to find the MDrivenServer - you can use this file to debug and develop
  your Turnkey app. This file must be  App_Data/MDrivenServerOverride.xml -->
  
  
  <!-- NEW!!! You can also debug a local website directly from a modlr file:   
      <MDrivenServerOverride PrototypeWithMDrivenDesignerInPath="C:\yourfile.modlr"></MDrivenServerOverride>
  -->
  
  
  <MDrivenServerOverride MDrivenServerPWD="somepwd">https://SOMETURNKEYSITE.azurewebsites.net/__MDrivenServer</MDrivenServerOverride>
</root>
</code>