CommandBox is a great tool for getting CFML development environments setup very quickly. I work with an application that uses the .NET Integration feature of Coldfusion. I recently needed to change that functionality so I needed to get it working in my development environment to test it. This is to document the steps I took to get it working with a CommandBox server in my local development environment.

Install Coldfusion .NET Integration Services

First you need to download and install the Coldfusion .NET Integration Services standalone installer. I have included a link to the installer for Coldfusion 2018 here. Once it is downloaded run the installer.

Add configuration settings

I am using the commandbox-dotenv and commandbox-cfconfig modules to configure my environment.

box install commandbox-dotenv
box install commandbox-cfconfig

I added these settings to my .env file for the .NET Integration. In the traditional installation for Coldfusion 2018 you would find these settings in <cf home>/lib/neo-dotnet.xml. The port numbers will be defined in the folder that the .NET Integration Services are installed in a file named JNBDotNetSide.exe.config.

# .NET Integration Settings
DOTNET_DIR=C:\\ColdFusion2018DotNetService
DOTNET_PORT=6095
DOTNET_CLIENT_PORT=6096

Lucky for me commandbox-cfconfig supports configuring .NET integration in Coldfusion for me. Here is a snippet of my .cfconfig.json file.

"dotNetInstallDir": "${DOTNET_DIR}",
"dotNetPort": "${DOTNET_PORT}",
"dotNetClientPort": "${DOTNET_CLIENT_PORT}"

Once you have the .NET Integration Services installed and running you can then restart the server for the new settings to take effect.

box server restart

Test it

Here is a script that can be used to test it. It just writes the OS version to the screen using .NET.

<cfscript>
environment = createObject(".NET", "System.Environment");

writeOutput("OS Version: " & environment.Get_OSVersion() );
</cfscript>

If it is not working you will likely receive an error message like:

DotNet Side does not seem to be running.