How to Enable DevTools in Store Commerce Without Reinstalling

If you've installed the Store Commerce app without DevTools enabled and now need to troubleshoot an issue, you don't need to uninstall and start over. You can flip a single registry setting to turn DevTools on. Here's how.

Why this is useful

DevTools is normally enabled at install time, but it's easy to skip the option or inherit a deployment where it wasn't selected. When something goes wrong — a UI element that won't render, a script error, a network call that's silently failing — DevTools is the fastest way to see what's actually happening under the hood. Re-running the installer just to enable it is overkill when a registry tweak does the same job in under a minute.

Before you start

You'll need administrator access on the machine, since editing HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE requires elevated permissions. Be careful with Registry Editor!

Steps:

1. Close Store Commerce. The setting is read at startup, so the app needs to be fully closed for the change to take effect.

2. Open the Registry Editor. Press the Windows key, type regedit, and press Enter

3. Navigate to the Store Commerce configuration key:

Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Dynamics\Commerce\10.0\Store Commerce\Configuration

You can paste this path directly into the address bar at the top of the Registry Editor.

4. Edit the EnableWebViewDevTools value. Double-click the key and change its value to True. Click OK to save.

   

5. Launch Store Commerce. Once it's running, press F12 or right-click anywhere in the app and select Inspect — DevTools should now open.