Visual Studio Integration

Full Integration with Visual Studio

If you're familiar with Visual Studio, you can develop Kentico websites in your favorite environment. Kentico CMS is a standard ASP.NET web project, which means you can open and modify with Visual Studio 2005/2008/2010 or with free Visual Studio Express. You can extend it with your .NET code, put it into version control system and even debug it as you’re used to.

Smooth Integration with Visual Studio Toolbox and Intellisense

Kentico integrates with Visual Studio toolbox, so you can easily drag and drop Kentico controls on your pages. You can also use Visual Studio Intellisense when using Kentico CMS API and see descriptions of its methods.

Ready-to-use Visual Studio Item Templates for Kentico CMS

Kentico CMS item templates for Visual Studio allow you to quickly create new:

page templates
master pages
web parts and widgets
form controls
filter controls
inline controls
user controls

Choose the Tools You Like

The portal engine development model enables browser-based development

With Kentico CMS, you have a choice of developing through an intuitive browser-based interface or using Visual Studio. While the browser-based interface is easy for web designers without deep .NET knowledge, experienced developers can leverage their existing experience and use Visual Studio and other tools they like. Or you can even combine both of these approaches within a single website.

Developing for Windows Azure

Using our Windows Azure Deployment Package, you can easily deploy your websites directly from the Visual Studio into Windows Azure platform. Just follow the Kentico CMS Windows Azure Guide to successfully deploy your websites into Windows Azure in a few steps.