Building the Development Environment

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You can build a Commerce Server development environment in two ways:

Build an independent development environment where each developer workstation is a Commerce Server deployment that points to its own instance of SQL Server.
Build a shared development environment that contains a single Commerce Server deployment. In this scenario, each developer workstation runs Commerce Server and points to a shared Commerce Server developer database.

A Commerce Server development environment contains the components listed in the following table.

Server and hardware	Quantity
Non-clustered database server	1 (optional)
Developer workstation	2 or more
Network cables	6 or more

Follow these steps when you build a development environment:

Add the non-clustered database server and developer workstations to the corporate intranet.
Install all prerequisite software. For more information, see What Are the Software Deployment Requirements?
For the shared development environment, configure the non-clustered database server. For more information, see How to Configure a Database Server.
Configure each developer workstation. For more information, see How to Configure a Developer Workstation.

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