Using Enterprise Server from within the IDE

Enterprise Developer provides an integration of Enterprise Server with Visual Studio. This means you can use the IDE to administer servers as follows:

Create enterprise servers directly from within the IDE - Enterprise Developer provides pre-configured server templates as well as temporary servers if you need to quickly create a server and deploy one or more projects to it.
Export server definitions in XML format or as ZIP archives.
Import servers using their definition files.
Start and stop servers.
Associate servers with a Mainframe Subsystem project from Server Explorer or Solution Explorer.
View the server catalog and spool files when debugging or running an application.
View the server logs about creating, starting or stopping a server and, for local servers, view the Enterprise Server console log. The information from the log is shown in the Output window.
Access the Enterprise Server Administration page - this opens the page within the IDE.

Server Explorer shows the following server nodes:

Micro Focus Servers - shows the available Enterprise Server instances.
Micro Focus Managed Servers - shows the regions of Enterprise Server for .NET.

Note: This section provides instructions only about how to create and manage Enterprise Server instances. For help with managed regions, refer to the product help for Enterprise Server for .NET.