Installing Commerce using Visual Studio extensions
With the update 56, we now have support for installing both the front-end site and Commerce Manager using the Visual Studio extension.
From now on, deployment center shouldn’t be used when installing a new empty commerce site. The steps to create a new site are:
- Create a new CMS site using the visual studio extension.
- Add the EPiServer.Commerce nuget package on the project.
- Add the EPiServer.Commerce.UI.ManagerIntegration on the project.
- Create a new empty asp.net project in the solution.
- Add the EPiServer.CommerceManager nuget package on the empty asp.net project.
- Run update-epidatabase in the package manager console.
- Compile.
- Start the Commerce manager site (Set as startup project, and then Ctrl+F5).
- Run the front-end site.
As you can see, there is still some steps that needs to be performed after added a site using the Visual Studio extension, but the procedure is still much better than before. It should not take you more than 5 minutes to create a full Commerce site from Visual Studio.
To read more about how a commerce site should be installed, go to the updated installation document.
Mar 09, 2015
Well! Does this installation covers both MVC/Webforms aspects?
Yes, basically it creates a barebone Commerce site and you're free to make it MVC or Webforms specific.
Thanks! (may be i am asking for more :) ) It will be very helpful if we can have an extension to setup a blank windows service/console application for Integration purposes (Import Cataloag from external source, Export orders in external formats)
Regarsd
Khurram!
Well, in that case make sure you only install episerver.commerce.core, you should be good to go :)
Thanks Quan, I will give it a try in my first free time. I think you know why I have asked this question :)
Great! Thanks Jonas and the whole commerce team, it will save my day.
Me like!
Regarding Commerce integration sample project, Nicklas Israelsson have a Github project for just that [0].
[0]: http://world.episerver.com/blogs/Nicklas-Israelsson/Dates/2014/3/Introducing-EPiCommerceIntegrationSample/
Hi Quan,
The mdf file can only be opened on the latest version version of SQL Server. I wanted to attach the mdf file to a shared SQL Server but want not able to do so. If I create the database via deployment center then I get the database directly on that server.
Am I missing anything?
Thanks,
Syed