• dotNet Core 7
• Entity Framework Core
• SQL Server
• Rider IDE / Visual Studio / Visual Studio Code

• .gitignore file must be used when working with git VCS to avoid uploading unnecessary files to the repository like in current case obj, bin, .rider, etc

• Clone the repository
• Open the project in Rider or Visual Studio
• Update the connection string in appsettings.json file to point to your local database
• Run dotnet clean to clean the project
• Run dotnet build to build the project
• Run dotnet ef database update to make your database in sync with the project
• Run dotnet run to run the project

Run the following commands in order

1- git switch main

2- git rm -r --cached .

3- git add .

4- git commit -m "removed gitignored files

5- git push -u main

Running the above commands shall switch you to main branch then removed all the cached files that have been now added to gitignored. After that it creates a new commit with files removed and adds a upstream to main and pushed new commit.