Developer Docs - Developer Codex - Installation Checklist

1. SQL Server – Developer Edition (Rock supports SQL Server 2016 and above so at least one person should be using 2016)

Optional: Azure Data Studio

2. Visual Studio

3. SmartGit [Version 22.1.7] - see these installation instructions

[remote "origin"]url = https://github.com/SparkDevNetwork/Rock.gitfetch = +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/*fetch = +refs/tags/*:refs/tags/*

4. Other things to install

5. Update Windows Defender - Exclude your development directory from Windows Defender. This will increase your build and load times.