Installing Serene From Visual Studio Marketplace
Downloading Template
Open the URL below in your browser:
https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=VolkanCeylan.SereneSerenityApplicationTemplate
Click Download to transfer the VSIX file to your computer.
You need Visual Studio 2022 17.8+ to run Serene as .NET 8 SDK only supports VS with the latest updates.
Install Template into Visual Studio
After the download is finished, double-click the downloaded VSIX file to start the Visual Studio extension installation dialog
Click Install when prompted.
Creating a New Project in Visual Studio
Start Visual Studio (if it was already open, restart it). Click Create a new project
on the startup screen (or from the menu File
=> New Project
).
If not displayed already, find Serene
using the top search input, and select SERENE
.
Name your application something like MyCompany
, MyProduct
, or HelloSerenity
, or leave the default name Serene1
.
Please don't name it Serenity
. It may conflict with other Serenity assemblies.
You should use Pascal casing, e.g. a name that starts with a Capital Letter
. Don't name your project something like myProject
.
Click OK
.
Feature Selection
Serene will prompt you to choose features you would like to see.
The listed features/samples are all optional. Initially, we recommend you leave them all checked so that you might have a look at how they are implemented.
After having some experience with Serene, you might create a new application and clear all these checkboxes to have a bare minimum project.
Choose features you like, click OK
and take a break while Visual Studio creates the solution.