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Create new ASP.NET 4.5.x empty project called *.App

• In Visual Studio 2012, use the ASP.NET Empty Web Application project type
• In Visual Studio 2013 / 2015: Create Visual C# > Web > ASP.NET Web Application project, then select the Empty template.

Setup OWIN

• Add NuGet packages

  • Microsoft.AspNet.WebApi.Owin
  • Microsoft.Owin.Host.SystemWeb
  • Microsoft.Owin.StaticFiles
  • Microsoft.Owin.Diagnostics
  • Microsoft.Owin.Cors

• Setup Dependency injection

  • Install NuGet packages:
    • Autofac.WebApi2.Owin
  • Update Startup.cs

• Setup Entity Framework / OData

  • Install NuGet packages:
    • Microsoft.AspNet.OData
    • EntityFramework

• Copy files from another project

  • Middleware/NoCacheMiddleware.cs
  • Middleware/Html5ServerMiddleware.cs
  • Startup.cs

• Copy Base OData Controllers

  • Controllers/OData/BaseODataController.cs
  • Controllers/OData/BaseEntityController.cs

Create new class library project call *.Data

• Setup Entity Framework
  • Install NuGet packages:
    • EntityFramework
• Copy files
  • *Context.cs
  • Models/BaseEntity.cs
• Add project reference from *.App to *.Data

Update Web.config in *.App project

• Add connection string to *.App's Web.config

<connectionStrings>
  <add name="<NAME>" providerName="System.Data.SqlClient" connectionString="Server=<SERVER>;Database=<DATABASE>;User Id=<USER_ID>;Password=<PASSWORD>;MultipleActiveResultSets=True" />
</connectionStrings>

• Add <modules runAllManagedModulesForAllRequests="true" /> under <system.webServer>

Setup Node/NPM

• Install NuGet packages (*.App):
  • Npm (includes Node and NoGit)
  • Update Npm from 0.12 to 5.x+
• npm init -y

Setup create-react-app

• npm install -g create-react-app
• cd *.App project root
• ..\packages\Node.js.5.3.0\create-react-app app, the move contents up from app to *.App root (using . with create-react-app shows an error)