I understand after 7.5 onwards it is the nuget packages which are responsible for providing the relevant referenced assemblies. As of now I am trying to create an Episerver project of version 8. I have the deployment center installed and Visual studio extension for Episerver as well.

When I try to create a new project from the Visual studio extension template, it gets created in Episerver 9 and When I try to create a site from Deployment center in 7.5 it gets created properly but when the project file is opened in visual studio and a .sln file is created by saving the project , it starts throwing the structure map issue.

Is there an easy way to have a working Episerver 8 CMS site in visual studio?

• Downgrade the Episerver 9 from Nuget
• Upgrade the 7.5  to 8 from Nuget (If I get a working solution)

Any input on this?

Visual studio extension for episerver should ask for the version like the .net framework version is asked for