Nikhil's Blog

Commerce Server 2007 Staging Error: CatalogImport failed; _FullTextCatalog' cannot be reused until after the next BACKUP LOG operation

nikhiln — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 06:46:47 GMT

In one of the production commerce server instances of my client, I suddenly found this error getting logged since a couple of days. Now, the text of the error has nothing to do with Commerce Server 2007 but everything to do with the Sql Server 2005 that...(read more)

Commerce Server 2007 Staging Error : "Error occurred with the database StagingLog.mdb"

nikhiln — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 13:27:43 GMT

Yesterday I came across a very strange Commerce Server Staging error at one of the production boxes of the customer am working for. Strangely, for some reason, the Staging server stopped and started to throw out the below error: Event Type: ...(read more)

Using HttpModules to perform a SSL switch on web pages

nikhiln — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 11:56:36 GMT

A common requirement of any secure website is to make sure that when a user traverses to a "sensitive" part of the website such the login page, the password reset page or even the personal profile page which might contain contact detail you...(read more)

Commerce Server 2007: Accessing multi-valued custom properties in UserObject of Profile System

nikhiln — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 15:34:46 GMT

The MSDN's Managing Profiles section of the commerce server gives an in-depth view of the working of the profile system and the steps needed to create custom properties for the UserObject. The Extending the Profile System section gives out detailed steps...(read more)

EntLib 3.1 DAAB: Be careful with the ExecuteReader

nikhiln — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 09:40:59 GMT

The EntLib 3.1 is simply superb, right?! Well, I would give a typical consultant answer... "It depends!". It depends on the developers who are using it and it depends on motivation of the developers to know the component before "copy-pasting" code and...(read more)

Commerce Server 2007: Catalog Import Error for Large Files

nikhiln — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 14:51:56 GMT

When you are trying to import a large catalog into the commerce server catalog system you might come across this error: The import failed because the import file is larger than the maximum size allowed on your server. Contact your system administrator...(read more)

HttpHandler to Authorize File Downloads - C# Code Sample

nikhiln — Thu, 22 May 2008 07:31:11 GMT

Its quite a common scenario to have a feature in a web site to check for the credentials of the user before allowing a particular download. For example, there might be some documents which should be visible only to a set of users and not to any others...(read more)

.NET 2.0 Symmetric Encryption Code Sample

nikhiln — Sun, 18 May 2008 18:53:00 GMT

One of the most common problems when developing any web site if the need to use Symmetric Encryption to save some data in the Cookie so that it can be looped back to the user's session / identity. .NET provides a very robust mechanism in which this can...(read more)

Commerce Server 2007 Code Samples - Catalog System and Basic Catalog Search

nikhiln — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 08:55:00 GMT

I did some qualitative analysis of the referrals of my blog, and found that a majority of the search terms are for Commerce Server Code Samples or for Commerce Server API usage samples.Though some very good code samples are available at the Microsoft...(read more)

Multi-Threaded Web Service Calls - A C# Code Sample

nikhiln — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 18:51:33 GMT

Sometimes it becomes necessary to call an external web service in a multi threaded manner to speed up processing of records that we have in a buffer so that the overall time spent in waiting for the calls to return is reduced. The high-level steps to...(read more)