I've found it really useful to utilize HTTP monitoring tools like Fiddler to monitor the traffic between the CS2007 Business User Apps and the Web services. Fiddler acts like an HTTP proxy server between the client and server, logging the traffic and...

For those looking to access Commerce Server documentation in these languages, wait no longer! Check out: Japanese: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=89D3D830-53D3-40BD-8EB2-3C7C0CE88009&displaylang=ja German: http://www.microsoft...

When I stepped back to take a look at the PageSetting/PageContext I found I wasn't completely happy with the design. It works perfectly but its usefulness is hindered by an unclear API. By this time we were beyond the point where I could refactor this kind of change so it stayed but this is a blog and I can show you how I would have made the change hopefully teaching you a little bit about the Starter Site and Refactoring in one post. ...

In the last post I mentioned how attributes were used to affect page functionality. The main class behind that is PageContext and its army of attributes: PageGroupAttribute, PageLayoutAttribute, and SecureAttribute. The attributes control various aspects...

I have uploaded a sample BizTalk Orchestration on GotDotNet. You can download it here , under the Release section. Here are the instructions for using the orchestration (these instructions are also contained in the sample project): 1. You will need...

So you probably know all about how to change the various limits (such as the maximum Baskets per user or LineItems per OrderForm) on Orders being placed on your web site using the Limits Element in the Orders Element in the Web.Config. Well, if you...

Next week, I am presenting a dedicated IT Pro-oriented talk on CS2007 (with new content to be shown for the first time) at IT Forum in Barcelona. See the details on my personal blog at http://blogs.msdn.com/rdonovan/archive/2006/11/07/new-cs2007-it-pro...

The Commerce Server Forums are now online. This is a great place to ask questions as the community and people from the Commerce Server team can answer your questions. The newsgroups will still be around but will not be monitored by Microsoft people nearly...

We added three new webcasts as part of a series on extending the Data Warehouse. Here are the details, be sure to check them out! Commerce Server Data Warehouse Presenters: Brian Blum and Alan Faulkner, Microsoft The Commerce Server Data Warehouse...

The Commerce Server team will have presentations and a full booth at both events. This will be a great chance to see CS2007 in action, talk with the product group to get your questions answered, and see session content aimed at the developer and IT professional...

Inside App_Code lies two important classes and they hold the foundation to the Starter Site. The first, SiteModule, is invisible in the day-to-day code, but it sets the stage. The second, SiteContext, is explicitly used nearly everwhere....

I want to start my blogging here by sharing with you some of the motives behind the design of the Starter Site. Some of our design decisions may seem confusing at first if you don't know the impetus behind them....

I'm Christopher Doll, Program Manager for the Commerce Server 2007 Starter Site and it is my pleasure to announce that we've released the site! Yes, right now it is available! We've been hard at work, making sure that this is the finest Retail Starter...

Indexer properties (or weakly-typed properties as they are sometimes referred to - I can see Cathy, our doc writer, cringing on the mention of this term which she passionately abhors) are present on almost all the common Orders classes in CS 2007 such...

In case you thought that was all talk, take a look at the Customer and Orders Manager UI in the latest release of Commerce Server 2007 . If you are perplexed as to why you cannot open this UI it is because we now require that the UI connect over SSL by...

Just wanted to highlight a couple of points about the Customer and Orders Manager Business Application that is shipped as part of Commerce Server 2007 : You can run the UI with only some of the web services defined.Simply launch the UI and in...

This was a question recently posted on one of the Commerce Server newsgroups and I thought I’d write a post on it since it seems like it should be of interest to others as well. In this post I shall give a step-by-step overview of how to create a custom...