Installing Sitecore Rocks with Visual Studio solutions

It's very easy and quick installation of sitecore rocks with Visual Studio Solutions.

Please follow the steps to install the Sitecore Rocks:
1. Open Visual Studio
2. Go to Tool Tab(placed on the top of the Visual Studio)

3. Select "Extensions and Updates..." option
4. After that on the left side select "Online" and now on the right-top search "Sitecore Rocks"

5. Now install and after successfully installation restart the Visual Studio.

Congrats Sitecore Rocks is now installed Successfully.

Why Sitecore Rocks?

Before Starting to work with any tools/technologies it's good to know what, why and how we are going to work with that. So guys let me explain one by one:

What is Sitecore Rocks?
It's a bridge between Sitecore Instance and Project Solution, that provide fast development experience to the developer.
"Sitecore rocks makes happy to Sitecore Developer"

And the best thing is it's open source tool that directly integrated with Visual Studio Projects.

Why Sitecore Rocks?
It's not necessary to use Sitecore rocks, but good practice to work with this tool. Each time you don't need to move from solution to Sitecore browser side.
According to my personal opinion, Sitecore Rocks is pretty much fast as compare with Browser(Sitecore Instance).
With this tool you will have all the features that required while development, even you can create Anti-Package, Can check the Publishing Queue and more.

How to Use Sitecore Rocks?

So Here I will provide you all the Steps to work with Sitecore Rocks:

1. Installation of Sitecore Rocks to the Visual Studio
2. Creating Connection with Sitecore Instance using Sitecore Rocks.
3. Creating Template using Sitecore Rocks.
4. Properties on template using Sitecore Rocks.
5. Creating Layout using Sitecore Rocks.
6. Creating Rendering using Sitecore Rocks.
7. Creating Placeholder using Sitecore Rocks.
8. Creating Page Item using Sitecore Rocks.
9. Publishing Page Item using Sitecore Rocks.
10. Creating/Installing Package using Sitecore Rocks.
11. Checking Publishing Queue using Sitecore Rocks.
12. Working with X-Path Query using Sitecore Rocks.
13. Rebuild Search Index and Link database using Sitecore Rocks.
14. Checking/Adding new Site to Site definition using Sitecore Rocks.
15. Updating Temp files using Sitecore Rocks to improve performance.
16. Checking/Adding new Pipelines and their definitions using Sitecore Rocks.
17. Clear cache using Sitecore Rocks
18. Sitecore Commands with Sitecore Rocks.

(...) will add more soon.




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