Are you looking for a way to import and/or export Commerce Server 2007 Marketing data? The following code samples show how to to export and import all CS2007 Marketing System data. The first sample uses the MarketingPup.Export method to extract the data...

If you are following my posts you probably have noticed the one showing how to create bundles for Commerce Server 2007. Bundles are created using product relationships with a specific name. Some of my customers believe it is too complicated for business...

Hi there... after a long time, I'm back. Let's talk a little about unit testing and commerce server... I've been helping one of our parters with a CS2007 website development and they were facing problems with unit testing and commerce server contexts...

If you followed the last post you now have a brand new DisplayTemplate on the marketing system with three properties: ProductImage, ProductTitle and ProductPrice. Before creating new advertisements and associate the new DisplayTemplate we will need...

In order to create a static display window supported by the Commerce Server 2007 Marketing System we need a custom DisplayTemplate. I'll use the DisplayTemplate to format a set of DIVs for each shopping window position. An associated CSS file will...

Hi there, On the next posts I'd like to show how to build display windows using Commerce Server 2007 Marketing and Catalog Systems. A display window is a webstore requirement of 10 in 10 customers I have worked. In general customers require a lot more...

If your customer has a lot of categories or products and when using the Catalog Manager to change the sequence you are getting the following error message (I got it today! :)): "There was an exception running the extensions specified in the config file...

Hi there, Up in Redmond last week attending the Commerce Server 2007 bootcamp I told Max that would be great to have all the tools demonstrated during the training in a kind of resource kit. I now about all the difficulties to pack an official resource...

I was helping one of our customers with Microsoft Virtual Server Host Clustering and we faced a strange problem with network connectivity. As per Broadcom their BCM5708 (NetXtreme_II) has issues with the Virtual Server and they have a workaround which...

Microsoft Softgrid is a new subject to me, but you guys cannot imagine how well impressed I am. It is the killer application of the century! No more administrative pains with application updates and no more DLL hell on the user's workstation. Cool! I...

Are you looking a way to extend the refresh cache webservice method to refresh ASP .Net cache on your Commerce Server 2007 website? If you are using ASP .Net output cache extensively and need to refresh the cache together with CS caches you can subscribe...

Are you curious on how to control the appearance of an ASP .Net pages using design time properties? Guys from Commerce Server team have shown how to deal with this problem. On a preliminary version of the CS2007 Starter Site (that one with came with CS2007...

Did you know that? With Visual Studio 2003 we were able to extend the System.Web.UI.Page class and create new properties for WebForms. Test yourself, using VS2003, create a new property for your class (derived from System.Web.UI.Page), create a new ASP...

Hello! Now I want to share with you some tips on configuring LCS and its client Office Communicator to originate VoIp calls to a Cisco SCCP IP Phone or conventional PSTN phones through a Cisco Call Manager 4.1 SR3. Many companies setup Cisco Telephony...

I’m back. I’d like to share with you some tips on how to enable Kerberos authentication and credential delegation on IIS6.0. I’ve been beating my head against the wall to see this thing working on one of our customers. I didn’t know how much this...

Do you need convert passwords stored originally using plain-text on databases to the one-way hash format used by the new version of the Commerce Server? Don’t think that Commerce Server never used hashes to store passwords. It has always implemented...

One of our customers asked me how to implement a vertical rolling/scroll bar on his web site which is using the ASP .Net 2.0 Tree View control. I told him that he could use a DIV with a simple javascript to deal with the tree expansion and the rolling...

Let’s change from water to wine. :) Let’s talk a little about infrastructure topics. A couple of years ago I wrote an article for our internal Intellectual Property repository about clustering virtual machines using iSCSI. At that time both virtualization...

Hey! I’m back with more Commerce Server 2007. Now the subject is Direct Mailing. Commerce Server 2007 is great on direct mailing. This feature allows the use of a ASPX template to generate e-mail marketing campaigns with same personalization resources...

When I was introduced to Commerce Server back in 2001 I initially thought that the product was a little box with a complete online store inside it. After a couple of days playing with the product and reading the documentation I figured out that I was...

Hi, this is my first blog posting and I’d like to use it to introduce myself. I’m Cristiano Gonçalves (you can call me Cris :)). I’m a senior consultant within Microsoft Enterprise Services Brazil. Since I’ve got my BS degree in Computer Science...