Developing Applications with Visual Studio
You use the Visual Studio 2008 development system to create .NET-based Commerce Server 2009 applications that use the Microsoft .NET Framework. Commerce Server 2009 provides tight integration with Microsoft Visual Studio, and enables you to access important Commerce Server 2009 tools from the Visual Studio development environment.
You can create Commerce Web applications in a team development environment. For more information about how to create Commerce Server 2009 applications in a team development environment, see Establishing an Environment for Multiple Developers and https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=6771.
The topics in this section explain how to access Commerce Server 2009 tools from Visual Studio.