Building the Development Environment
You can build a Commerce Server 2009 development environment in two ways:
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Build an independent development environment where each developer workstation is a Commerce Server 2009 deployment that points to its own instance of SQL Server.
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Build a shared development environment that contains a single Commerce Server 2009 deployment. In this scenario, each developer workstation runs Commerce Server 2009 and points to a shared Commerce Server 2009 developer database.
A Commerce Server 2009 development environment contains the components listed in the following table.
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Server and hardware |
Quantity |
|---|---|
|
Non-clustered database server |
1 (optional) |
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Developer workstation |
2 or more |
|
Network cables |
6 or more |
Follow these steps when you build a development environment:
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Add the non-clustered database server and developer workstations to the corporate intranet.
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Install all prerequisite software. For more information, see What Are the Software Deployment Requirements?
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For the shared development environment, configure the non-clustered database server. For more information, see How to Configure a Database Server.
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Configure each developer workstation. For more information, see How to Configure a Developer Workstation.