Welcome to MSDN Blogs Sign in | Join | Help

Browse by Tags

All Tags » Programming the... » New Catalog Features in CS2007   (RSS)

Improving the catalog search experience in Commerce Server 2007

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

Implementing Thesaurus support in the catalog system

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

Caching in the catalog system

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 system.
 
Page view tracker