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Installing Commerce using Visual Studio extensions

Dec 21, 2014

We have received a lot of feedback from developers requesting an easier way of creating an empty EPiServer Commerce project without using Deployment Center. Update 48 of EPiServer with Commerce 8.6 includes the possibility to install a new EPiServer Commerce site from Visual Studio, using an extension package for Commerce.

About the features

Key points about the new features:

  • The EPiServer.Commerce NuGetpackage is responsible for adding the correct Commerce configuration and installing the Commerce database. It does not install any CMS configuration or database.
       
  • The installed database is in the form of a local mdf file. Please make sure the parent folder where you are installing has write permissions since Local Database does not respect the Administrators group. If you want to move the database, just attach the file to an SQL server instance.
       
  • There is an SQL file in the tools folder of the EPiServer.Commerce.Core package that contains the install file for the current version of Commerce. This can be used to create a new database for automation tasks.

Note that installed website will not have any templates. Furthermore, the installation does not include Commerce Manager (the Commerce administration interface), however most parts of Commerce can be accessed from code.

Creating a project

Follow the steps below to create an empty Commerce project:

  1. In Visual Studio, create an empty website with CMS.
  2. Right-click on References in your project, and select "Manage NuGet Packages".
  3. Select "EPiServer" under Online and click "Install" for the EPiServer.Commerce package. This will add all the latest Commerce components to your project.
  4. In the Package Manager Console in Visual Studio, run the command "update-epidatabase".
  5. Build your solution and open the website in a browser.
  6. Verify that the site is working and that you can log in to the user interface (default path is http://yoursite/episerver).

Comments

Adam Finzel
Adam Finzel Dec 22, 2014 09:43 PM

This is great news but why not include the admin?

Dec 23, 2014 08:18 AM

The plan is to include Commerce Manager in the next phase of this work.

Dec 23, 2014 12:03 PM

Thumbs up! A good first step but not really usable outside the lab until we also can get a Commerce Manager installed in the same way.

Jan 7, 2015 10:36 AM

Fredrik: We are currently working on the Commerce Manager nuget installation.

Jan 7, 2015 11:57 AM

Wonderful!

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