The Commerce Server 2007 catalog system supports multilingual display names for Property definitions, catalog definitions, products, categories and variants. This post discusses multilingual display name support for property definitions. The following...

Commerce Server 2007 allows you to extend the different entities in the Catalog and Inventory systems in a straightforward manner. These are the various entities that can be extended Property Definitions Catalog Definitions Inventory Catalog...

I received a question on my earlier post on implementing the credential prompter. When connecting to the web service you have to specify a CatalogServiceAgent object. When authenticating against a Web service, the default behavior is to first try to make...

The objects in the catalog system can now be programmed in two modes. In the first mode the catalog server assembly is loaded in the callers appdomain (aka inproc mode). In the second mode the functionality of the catalog system is available remotely...

I have seen a few customers hit this issue in the newsgroups. If you are using Windows XP as your development environment for Commerce Server 2007 Developer Edition and importing a catalog gives you an error "Value does not fall within the expected range...

The authorization model is another new feature in the Commerce Server 2007 catalog system which allows you to protect your catalog data from being accessed by unauthorized users. Since we decided to expose the functionality of the catalog system over...

You can now download the evaluation version of Commerce Server 2007 from here . Other useful links: Product Documentation Product Review Readme Installation Guide Additional information on general availability and pricing can be found...

Two years back in this post on fulltext search in the catalog system , I had explained how fulltext searches are performed in the catalog system and added the following comment "Providing an increased number of search features/conditions is something...

Sql Server 2005 now provides Thesaurus support through configurable xml files. In a nutshell the Thesaurus feature allows you to search for synonyms of the search phrase or replace the search phrase with a replacement phrase and perform the search using...

The catalogsets feature is probably the least known feature in the catalog system. Unlike in previous versions, the catalogsets feature is now tightly integrated with the catalog sytsem. We have also provided a managed API to create, edit and delete catalog...

The Commerce Server 2007 catalog system adds a new caching feature which caches frequently used datasets. What is cached? In order to prevent repeated calls to the sql server the catalog system caches the results of various methods in the catalog...

Virtual catalogs is a key feature we improved upon in Commerce Server 2007 to allow you to further customize your base and virtual catalogs. These features will enable additional scenarios which were not possible in previous versions. If you are not familiar...

A while back I had written about sequencing products and categories in the feature pack and mentioned a few features that were not supported. I am happy to say that we have now addressed all the limitations I had mentioned in this post and also added...

One of my posts ( Catalog classtypes and search functionality in the catalog system ) described the search functionality in previous versions of the catalog system. We have now made the following enhancements to the search functionality. Incidentally...

After several years of hardwork the Release candidate for Microsoft Commerce Server 2007 is now available for public download. The details of the download location and the name change from Microsoft Commerce Server 2006 to Microsoft Commerce Server 2007...

6. New features in Import Just as we provided a number of options in Export , we have provided a similar number of options for Import. 1. Importing from client machines: The Commerce Server 2007 catalog system now allows you to import data from...

5. New features in Export Import/Export is one of the features we took a new look at in Commerce Server 2007, studied customer feedback and came up with a number of configurable options which should address most of typical scenarios like staging, LOB...

Commerce Server 2007 offers the following major enhancements to the catalog system since Commerce Server 2002. 1. Programming model : The catalog system is one of the components which has been completely rewritten in managed code. The COM objects...

Twenty months back when we started planning for the next release of Commerce Server I had written a post asking for feedback on Commerce Server 2007. Now twenty months later we are on track to ship Commerce Server 2007 sometime soon. Commerce server 2007...

The Catalog system basically has four main objects: 1. The CatalogManager object is the only externally creatable object. The progid is Commerce.CatalogManager. You can use this object to manage all the catalog schema, create/delete catalogs, import...

Checkout this entry by Ryan Donovan , the Group Program Manager of Commerce Server for information about the CS2006 Tech preview and how to download the preview bits.

This is the first in a series of posts on how you can program the product catalog system. The product catalog system that shipped in Commerce Server 2002 provided three programming models: 1. The Catalog Com objects : These are a set of objects which...

Recently there were a few posts in the newsgroups where users were not able to connect to sql server especially when it was configured on a different machine. If you start seeing connection failure errors like GlobalConfig:Initialize : Login failed...

Among the numerous cool features we added in the Commerce Server Feature Pack , one of them was the ability to sequence products and categories in catalogs. Based on some of the newsgroup posts it turned out that there is some confusion on this feature...

I had seen a number of queries in the catalog newsgroups regarding productids and category names in virtual catalogs. Some of the queries failed because the product ids were not used as they were supposed to in virtual catalog. This post covers the name...