Introduction

This documentation outlines the steps necessary to license, download, and install the sample Ed-Fi Dashboards application on a development machine or other testing environment. Suggestions for next steps, including further reading and how-to information, are also provided.

Audience

This documentation is for technical professionals who work with educational data, including software developers and database administrators. The overview information may be of interest to business analysts and technology leaders.

Prerequisites

Ed-Fi Dashboard technology leverages an extensive framework. Many components of Ed-Fi technology are platform-independent, including the Ed-Fi Data Standard and the Ed-Fi API. However, the concrete implementation of the Ed-Fi Dashboards is built upon a Microsoft technology stack. While this documentation attempts to provide detail sufficient for a wide variety of experience levels, familiarity with and access to the following technologies is necessary for installing and configuring the Ed-Fi Dashboard software components:

• Microsoft Windows configuration activities
• Internet Information Services (IIS) 7.5
• Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 or 2012
• SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
• SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS)
• Visual Studio 2010 (Professional Edition or better)
• ASP.NET MVC 3 / C#
• Nuget (Package Manager)
• Windows Identity Foundation (WIF)