To setup Roadkill on a developer machine, you will need:

• Visual Studio 2013 (2012 should also work)
• Typescript installed - http://www.typescriptlang.org
• SQL Server Express 2012 or better, although you can configure Roadkill to work with SQL Server CE or SQLite if you prefer.
• An NUnit runner (NUnit, Resharper, Dotcover etc.) if you want to run the tests. This is required if you want to contribute.

To get a 'fresh' Roadkill installation on your development machine, you will need to do the following:

• For IIS: create a new site with a .NET 4 application pool. Roadkill also works with IIS Express.
• If you're using SQL Server: create a database called "roadkill". Run the /lib/Test-databases/roadkill-sqlserver.sql script.
  • If you want to use SQLite or SQLServer CE, empty databases can be found /lib/Test-databases/SqlCE or Sqlite.
• You can also install Roadkill using the unattended url, e.g.: http://localhost/install/Unattended?datastoretype=sqlserver2008&connectionstring=database=roadkill;uid=sa;pwd=Passw0rd;server=.\SQLEXPRESS

There are 4 build scripts that automate the builds:

• build.ps1 - runs msbuild with the solution file
• devbuild.ps1 - builds and copies all files required for a dev build, zips the files and then pushes the zip file to the 'RoadkillBuilds' repository on Bitbucket (https://bitbucket.org/yetanotherchris/roadkillbuilds).
• releasebuild.ps1 - The same as devbuild.ps1 but uses the release build configuration and only produces a zip file.
• mono.releasebuild.ps1 - Uses the the mono build configuration.

Roadkill can be run using a website deploy on Windows Azure. The instructions for this can be found on the Roadkill wiki

Mercurial (Bitbucket) hosting is synced with Github and Codeplex Git hosting using the Hg-To-Git plugin for Mercurial. These commands are then run:

• hg pull -u
• hg bookmark -f master
• hg push git+ssh://git@github.com/yetanotherchris/roadkill.git

Codeplex is then synced from Github using git push --all https://git01.codeplex.com/roadkill

If you want to contribute to Roadkill, have a look at the Contributing page on the Roadkill wiki: