Introduction In many instances we use ImportWebPart method of the WebpartManager class to import web parts in runtime. If you are using this method to render dynamic content in an anonymous internet facing site using SharePoint there are few points...

New white paper on integrating commerce server profiles with external data stores has been published. http://www.microsoft.com/commerceserver/en/us/white-papers.aspx Direct Link - http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID...

Introduction Order schema manager is a custom tool to extend Commerce Server Order Schema. Commerce Server order schema is represented through an xml file name OrderObjectMapping.xml. Extending the schema is accomplished by modifying the xml file manually...

I will be writing Hand's on Labs to enable developers to ramp up in Commerce Server 2007. The main objective of the HOL is to give step by step instructions to build a basic e-commerce site. Stay tuned 

Introduction Deploying commerce server profiles is a repetitive task / requirement in many commerce server engagements. Commerce server profile system is extensible and supports various data bases as data stores. Every engagement takes this advantage...

Introduction     Commerce server provides PUP.exe to automate the process of packing and un-packing a commerce site. Tool has its existence from the days of Site Server . Complete Meta data of a commerce site is managed by pup package. Using the pup...

Introduction :- In this article I will be discussing about various challenges we face during data migration from CS 2000 to CS 2007. Before getting into the issues let's discuss the basic process involved in the process of data migration. This article...

Good reference book on working and troubleshooting commerce server pipelines. http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms959842.aspx

Commerce UPM Member ship provider always treats the security question answer as case insensitive. While creating the user , UPM Membership provider does ToLower() of the provided secret question answer and also converts the supplied answer to lower case...

Commerce Server still runs unmanaged code in few of their sub-systems. Profiles, marketing and Pipelines are the sub-systems which are unmanaged. All other sub-systems are re-written in managed code.

David Messner's Transactional pipeline components

Making a class abstract helps us to abstract some base functionality in the base class and it will en-force all the inherited classes to give implementation for the abstract methods. Not in all cases we will be able to give implementation for all the...

If Enhanced Security configuration is enabled, Commerce Server manager will give Service Unavailable error. Removing Enhanced IE security setting through Add/Remove Programs will solve the issue.

By default all the business manager UI's connect to the commerce web services through SSL. To enable SSL we need to do the following steps. The same steps can also be applied to repair the SSL installation in instances like changing the machine name etc...

http://www.codeproject.com/vb/net/UILayering.asp

Encryption in SQL server [pwdencrypt,pwdcompare] There are some hidden functions in SQL server through which we can encrypt any string and store the same in the table. This will be very helpful in encrypting the user password and other sensitive user...

Commerce server profile can be extended to store some of profile information in Active Directory or in any other data store. Normally user's information like Username, Password, and Address etc  will be stored in Active Directory. Whenever a user is created...

Introduction Each and every project deals with adding some custom properties to the classes provided by Framework Class Library. This can be achieved by inheriting the base class and providing more functionality to it by adding properties and methods...

Introduction Order system represents the actual orders placed by the customers. Order system stores the order information in collection of OrderForm objects. Commerce Server runtime persists all the information represented by the order system objects...