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I would like to connect to NopCommerce database from my own Winform vb.net application.

Please could someone explain how to do it ? I don't want connect directly to database, but use the classes of NopCommerce.

Thank you.

Giuseppe

Checkout http://nopeasy.com (i'm not affiliated with the company in any way).

I don't think he was asking that. He was asking about referencing and using Nop DLLs in a WinForms project - correct?

See https://www.nopcommerce.com/boards/t/5956/the-connectionstring-property-has-not-been-initialized.aspx for how I did that in a DLL of mine. I haven't tried with a WinForms app yet. It may or may not be possible; obviously you don't get an HttpContext object in Forms.

I'm planning to write an article on referencing and using the Nop business logic DLL so may well look into this. Please poost your findings!

I don't know what you're trying to do exactly, but I'm pretty sure that if you wanted to use the classes from NopCommerce all you would have to do is add a reference to your project using whatever .dll has the classes you wish to use.

NopEasy doesn't use the NopCommerce classes, it connects directly to the database to do its thing...