Visual Studio IDE Setup

Prerequisites

• Visual Studio 2005 or higher. This tutorial is based on the 2005 version of the Visual Studio IDE. If you are using a different version, you might need to adapt some instructions for your specific version.
• Content Engine version 4.5.1 or higher, deployed on any supported application server. For supported application servers, see: FileNet® P8 Hardware and Software Requirements .

  To test the connection to the Content Platform Engine that you use to develop a FileNet P8 application, enter this URL in your web browser: http://<hostname>:<portnumber>/FileNet/Engine. (The default ports are 9080 for WebSphere® , 8080 for JBoss, and 7001 for WebLogic.) If the connection is successful, the Content Platform Engine returns an HTML page that describes the Content Platform Engine startup context; otherwise, it returns a list of errors.

• The .NET Framework, version 3.0 or later, must be installed on your development machine. You can download the .NET Framework from Microsoft.

  Microsoft .NET 3.0 or higher frameworks contain Windows Communication Foundation (WCF), which requires a secure HTTPS connection. To connect to Content Platform Engine with WCF, you must import the SSL certificate from the Content Platform Engine server to the client workstation. Download the server certificate, and import it into a certificate store by using the Certificate MMC snap-in. For example, you can import the certificate into the Trusted People certificate store.

  Alternatively, to use an unsecured HTTP connection, Microsoft Web Service Extensions (WSE) 3.0 must also be installed along with the .NET framework.

• FileNet.Api.dll must exist on your development machine. You reference this DLL in your Visual Studio project. For a remote development environment, you can copy this DLL from the root directory of the Content Platform Engine installation that you use to develop client applications.

  By default, the Windows version of Content Engine is installed to C:\Program Files (x86)\IBM\FileNet\ContentEngine, and the non-Windows version is installed to /opt/IBM/FileNet/ContentEngine.