Running Episerver as a console application

This project shows that Episerver (CMS and commerce) can be run as console application. I have personally used this to run long-running jobs, which otherwise would be interrupted by IIS.

Install

Follow these steps exactly.

1. Create CMS and commerce databases in a SQL server instance
2. Set connection strings accordingly in Episerver.Console.Web and Episerver.Console.Client
3. Run Initialize-EPiDatabase with default project Episerver.Console.Web
4. Run Update-EPiDatabase with default project Episerver.Console.Web
5. Start web site Episerver.Console.Web
6. Login using your Windows account
7. Execute migration steps
8. Stop debugging web site
9. Run Episerver.Console.Client
10. Start web site

Result

You should now see the start page, which was programmatically created in the console application. The console application also created a catalog, category, product and a variant. Enter the catalog UI to verify this.