1. Set up a development environment with everything you need to start developing, including IIS, ASP.NET, SQL Server, and Visual Studio.
2. Create a starter project for your development project.
3. Add ecommerce functionality, such as catalog content and rendering, shopping cart and checkout functionality, shipping and payment methods, and search functionality.

Resources

• Optimizely Content Management System Developer Program offered by Optimizely Education
• Certification exams for Optimizely Content Management System (CMS) and other products
• Blog post: Five, Six, Seven, (Eight) – Out With the Old, In With the New .NET by Magnus Rahl
• Optimizely ASP.NET Core information hub
• Upgrade to ASP.NET Core
• Breaking changes in Optimizely Commerce Connect 14
• About ASP.NET Core