Can you use Visual Studios instead of Web Matrix for orchard 1.0?

Question

I installed kindergarten through the installer of the MS web platform. He listed the web matrix as a dependency and after its completion installed the loaded web matrix.

I am wondering if I can just use VS 2010 instead or does orchard have a set of settings for the web matrix or something that will require me to do some configuration in VS 2010 (i.e. some iis things)?

thanks

PS

I tried to go to the path where the garden files are located (which were indicated in the web matrix) and load the cs project file into Vs, but there seemed to be no folders like the Themes folder.

Answer 1

This page from the Orchard documentation shows that you can create a module using only a text editor. I would think that using Visual Studio is also doable, although I cannot find an explicit example using VS 2010.

Edit

The documentation has complete instructions for writing to the source code and using Visual Studio 2010 to build Orchard .

Answer 2

Yes, you can use VS2010 only if you want, and that I prefer it myself, but you should use the full source for Orchard. Go to the Download page to download the full source code.

After that, you got a lot of good tutorials on the Documentation page.

Good luck