[DanCooper]

What you need (please only download and follow the guide for installations):

• Visual Studio 2015 Community edition (free)
  
• own account on GitHub (best way sync with latest source code)
  
• GitHub Desktop (free)
  
• own account on Transifex
  
• NSIS (to create the installer)
  

STEP 1

• create an account on GitHub
  
• fork our code on GitHub (that creates your own copy of Ember in your account)
  
• install GitHub Desktop and Clone the code to your harddrive ( + sign => your Account Name => Clone => select Ember-MM-Newscraper | don't use a network drive to save the code)
  

STEP 2

• install Visual Studio 2015 Community edition (default settings for VB.NET)
  

STEP 3

If exist, delete the folder .\GitHub\Ember-MM-Newscraper\EmberMM - Release - x86 to cleanup a new version from old and no longer needed files!

• start Visual Studio and Open Project => .\GitHub\Ember-MM-Newscraper\Ember Media Manager.sln
  
• Unload (right mouse button => Unload Project) this projects in the Solution Explorer (Ctrl+Alt+L): EmberAPI_Test, Scraper_Test and UnitTests
  
• go to Build => Configuration Manager and switch to Active solution configuration: Release and Active solution platform: x86 (no, x64 does not work)
  
• Compile the source code with Build => Build solution (Ctrl+Shift+B)
  

STEP 4

• install NSIS (use version 2.46 if the latest version does not work in Step 5)
  

STEP 5

• open Explorer, goto .\GitHub\Ember-MM-Newscraper\BuildSetup and run 0_BuildSetup_x86.bat
  
• setup your transifex account (type https://www.transifex.com in the first or second step (it's also displayed while running batch file))
  
• the NSIS should create your new nightly version in Builds folder
  

DONE



UPDATE YOUR SOURCE CODE TO OUR LATEST VERSION:

If exist, delete the folder .\GitHub\Ember-MM-Newscraper\EmberMM - Release - x86 to cleanup a new version from old and no longer needed files!

• start GitHub Desktop
  
• select Ember-MM-Newscraper
  
• click on the top right "gear" button and select Open in Git Shell
  
• in Git Shell enter to force refresh:
  Code:

  git fetch --all
• click on the Compare button (on top of the history list) and select DanCooper/master
  
• click on the Update from DanCooper/master button
  
• open the project in Visual Studio, compile the new code and run the batch file to create the installer