How to start with NopCommerce?

Hello,

I am new to nopCommerce. I downloaded nopCommerce (with Source and without Source). I tried to find tutorials/forums which help me setup nopCommerce, but I did not find. nopCommerce is looking very strength for me. Can me tell anyone that what is nopCommerce exactly? Do I need my website to be designed with few code of HTML / CSS code? or nopCommerce provides some kind of templates?

I tried to install nopCommerce with Source Code. I opened Visual Studio 2010 and  Opened Solution NopCommerce.sln. Afterwards, no idea what to do? Can anyone help to get Started?

Thanks for your help.
Regards,
Hakoo Desai

haks_desai wrote:

nopCommerce is an open source e-commerce website. If you like the default themes then you don't have to take any additional action in design.

To get started with the source code version open the code in Visual Studio 2010, in solution explorer right click on the Nop.Web project and make it the startup project. Then press f5 and you will be taken to the nopCommerce installation setup.

If you're interested in extending nopCommerce functionality by writing C# code then you should read my blog posts and they will help you take on those kind of nopCommerce projects.

http://blog.csharpwebdeveloper.com

p.s. Make sure you have MVC3 installed. Not having MVC3 installed is a common problem when people start using the nopCommerce project for the first time.

Hi skyler.severns,

I tried with that. But I am getting error as written below:

''A project with an Output Type of Class Librart cannot be started directly.

In order to debug this project, add an executable project to this solution which references the library project. Set the executable project as the startup project"

What do now?

Regards,
Hakoo Desai.

haks_desai wrote:

Hi Hakoo,

In the solution explorer (project and file browser) you need to right click on "Nop.Web" and select "Set as startup project".

Hi,

Thanks very much for your help. It is working now. As I told, is it necessary any asp.net website should be exists? I got installation page. Now, which database option I choose?

Regards,
Hakoo Desai.

haks_desai wrote:

Hakoo you won't need another asp.net website, because nopCommerce is the website. Which database option to choose depends on your needs and infrastructure. I always use SqlServer sometimes with integrated security and other times I might use SQL authentication. It just depends on how my server infrastructure is configured.

Hi,

Thanks for your reply.
So, As I understood, each time I want to create new online store website, I need to install nopCommerce each time. Now thing is, how can I edit pages and what database I need to create? How can I access admin part?

Regards,
Hakoo Desai.

Hello,

After few days I  came back to Community forum. I understand the concept of nopCommerce. Now thing is how to open Administrator Part? I tried to select nop.Admin as ' Set as Default Project' and when I pressed F5, I was directed to www.nopcommerce.com. Can anyone help me?  

Thanking You,
Regards,
Hakoo Desai.

haks_desai wrote:

Actually you do not want to make the administrator project the default project. Instead keep "Nop.Web" the default project and once the application is running log into the account you created during installation. In the upper right you should have a link "administration" and that link will take you into the administration section.

I've downloaded nopCommerce 2.30 with source and installed MVC. Then I built the solution without any error.
As mentioned before I've set the Nop.Web project as default project. In debug mode when i started debugging (with F5) i got "A project with Output type of Class Library cannot be started directly".

So What's wrong with this case?