Commerce Server 2007 Tips, Tricks, Recipes and Gotchas

Commerce Server Pre-Training Resources

Max Akbar — Tue, 09 Jan 2007 03:17:47 GMT

Currently we are working hard on getting training materials ready for Commerce Server 2007. We are hoping

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ch srinivasa rao — Fri, 09 Mar 2007 11:50:26 GMT

iam going through all your blogs and we are practicing.

i got good info about cs2007

thank you

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Max Akbar — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 03:22:45 GMT

Glad to hear it was helpful :), enjoy.

-Max

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Aparna — Tue, 22 May 2007 08:05:38 GMT

hi,

I am developing a ASP.NET 2.0 web site using commerce server web services.

I wasnt able to find any method which in the catalog web service which returns all the categories in a catalog.

Is there any way of doing this?

thanks for all the help in advance.

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Max Akbar — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 19:19:46 GMT

Yes you can do this by doing a search and setting the i_classType to 1.

-Max

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Abhishek Bhat — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 17:44:54 GMT

Hi Akbar,

Can we use PayPal type as we use Credit Cards with Commerce Server 2007?

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Max Akbar — Mon, 13 Aug 2007 04:09:33 GMT

Yes, Last I heard and bloged about it was that Pay Pal was going to create a pipeline to do just that.

http://blogs.msdn.com/maxakbar/archive/2007/06/13/paypal-what-s-new-and-what-s-next-paypal-developer-blog-paypal-developer-community.aspx

-Max

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Søren Spelling Lund — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 08:08:25 GMT

Last link in your list doesn't work.

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Max Akbar — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 00:55:09 GMT

It should be working now :), sorry.

-Max

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Sumit M — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 16:35:07 GMT

One quick questiion : How to call the SiteCacheRefresh.axd url (http://<WebServerMachineName>/OrdersWebService/SiteCacheRefresh.axd?CacheToRefresh=CatalogCache) from some scheduled job or task as in our implementation there is a requirement to call it from the application server for the 4 web servers. the reason for this is we have 2 application on each of the webserver so the total application count is 8 for 4 webservers, while calling the SiteCacheRefresh from the overnight running staging if any of the 8 application have some problem then our whole of the batch process is getting stopped, so we want to call the URL from the app server manually by job or task independently and not to do through staging.

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Max Akbar — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 01:29:25 GMT

You can do this by using the web request APIs of .NET http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.net.webrequest.aspx.

Good luck,

-Max

Pipeline registration error-reg

Neelima — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 12:10:29 GMT

We created one custom pipeline component in Visual Studio 2008. Registered the pipeline using Pipereg.exe.

The tool Pipereg.exe gave confirmation message that “Component registered successfully”

When we tried to insert the pipeline component in Checkout pipeline through Pipeline editor, it didn’t give any error.

If we run the pipeline, the system is giving one error “Component Execution failed for component[0x0] hr: 0x80040154\r\nProgID: TaxCalc.TaxCalc\r\nCould not create Component TaxCalc.TaxCalc. This may be a component registration issue.”

Could anyone please throw some light into this? What could be the possible reason for this error?

i'm having a problem with CommerceContext.Current.UserProfile, specifically, it dosent contain any information.

Miguel sanchez — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 20:09:29 GMT

i'm having a problem with CommerceContext.Current.UserProfile, specifically, it dosent contain any information.

when change of page of loged a another page.aspx

then on another page i have

CommerceContext current = CommerceContext.Current

Profile userProf = current.UserProfile

but userProf is blank!

i thought current.UserProfile is ment to persist the loged in profile

please help

Email:masb222@gmail.com

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Max Akbar — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 05:31:56 GMT

Hello Neelima,

If you move the component from one server to another you will need to run regasm to register the component then run the pipereg tool.

-Max

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Max Akbar — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 05:37:16 GMT

Hi Miguel,

Couple of things, if you don't set the user id in the cookie then the profile object will always be null. The way the CommerceContext.Current.UserProfile works is that it will look at the user’s cookie and use the user's email in there to get the current profile.

IPrincipal user = HttpContext.Current.User;

if ((user != null) && (user.Identity != null))

{

Response.Write(user.Identity.Name);

}

This should provide you the user's email then check your profile system to make sure that the user exists.

-Max