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

Question

I installed orchard through the MS web platform installer. It listed web matrix as a dependency and once finished installing it loaded up web matrix.

I am wondering if I can just use VS 2010 instead or does orchard have some setting set for web matrix or something that would require me to do some configuration in VS 2010(ie some iis stuff)?

Thanks

P.S

I tried going to the path where the orchard files are located(that was listed in web matrix) and load up the cs project file into Vs but it seems to be missing folders such as the "Themes" folder.

Answer 1

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

After that you got many good tutorials on the Documentation page.

Good luck!

Answer 2

This page from the Orchard Documentation shows that you can create a module using just a text editor. I would think that using Visual Studio would also be doable, though I can't find an explicit example using VS 2010.

Edit

The documentation has full instructions to enlist in the source code and use Visual Studio 2010 to build Orchard.