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The much anticipated Starter Site for Commerce Server 2007 is now available for download. With the release of the Starter Site we have also officially launched the Commerce Team Blog which is what will be used going forward for all Commerce related blog
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Commerce Server 2002 SP4 is now live and available for download ! SP4 rolls up all existing QFEs and hotfixes, and can be applied to both CS2002 SP3 and FP1 installations. You can go through the main SP4 Readme document to learn more and also go through
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I know this has been asked a million times by now - When are we getting the StarterSite? Well Ryan has the answer . The short answer is next week - but not for production sites. The long answer is October 2006 . Hope that puts a lot of those questions
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This was a question recently posted on one of the Commerce Server newsgroups and I thought I’d write a post on it since it seems like it should be of interest to others as well. In this post I shall give a step-by-step overview of how to create a custom
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This post illustrates how to run pipelines in a sample console app (attached to the post).
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Attachment(s): CS2007_PipelineConsoleApp.zip
Just wanted to highlight a couple of points about the Customer and Orders Manager Business Application that is shipped as part of Commerce Server 2007 : You can run the UI with only some of the web services defined.Simply launch the UI and in the connection
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In case you have been playing around with Payments in Commerce Server 2007 , you might have noticed and wondered about this property on the CreditCardPayment class: CreditCardNumber . No matter what you set it to, a save and reload of the Basket / PurchaseOrder
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Just wanted to highlight the key difference between these 2 APIs which can both be used to display the set of ShippingMethods which are enabled in the TransactionConfig (the site resource) database. Points to be noted: · Both only return enabled ShippingMethods
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An often asked question while working with the Order system in Commerce Server has been whether it is possible to use a predefined order number instead of having the Order system generate it for you. The answer is Yes and here is how you can do that.
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Here is a code sample which illustrates how you can achieve a common scenario on a B2B / B2C eCommerce site – placing repeated Orders containing the same set of products over and over again, without the hassle of having to search for and save the set
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In case you thought that was all talk, take a look at the Customer and Orders Manager UI in the latest release candidate of Commerce Server 2007 . If you are moving from Beta, and are perplexed as to why you suddenly cannot open this UI anymore it is
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The Orders subsystem in Commerce Server 2007 offers some really powerful new APIs which can make your life easier. Some of the various operations and scenarios enabled by these APIs are: Searching for Baskets and Orders Deleting Baskets (probably you
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In this post I shall attempt to highlight the steps required to get a basic StarterSite Beta running on Beta 1 of Commerce Server 2007 (2006 back then) running on the just released Release Candidate of Commerce Server 2007 . I’ll assume that you have
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Indexer properties (or weakly-typed properties as they are sometimes referred to - I can see Cathy, our doc writer, cringing on the mention of this term which she passionately abhors) are present on almost all the common Orders classes in CS 2006 such
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A big welcome to Alan Faulkner who is a fellow tester on the Commerce Server team and will be posting (infact already has!) some very useful stuff concerning Data Warehousing (like how to setup DWA in CS 2006 Beta on SQL 2005 ), Commerce Server BizTalk
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