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.