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Saturday, October 07, 2006 2:22 AM

Adding multilingual display names to property definitions

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
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Friday, October 06, 2006 4:14 AM

Extending the entites in the Catalog and Inventory Systems

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 Inventory
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Wednesday, September 06, 2006 1:14 AM

Implementing the credential prompter

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
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Wednesday, August 30, 2006 12:15 AM

Programming the Commerce Server 2007 catalog system: Creating the CatalogContext

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
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Sunday, June 18, 2006 1:53 AM

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
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Monday, June 12, 2006 3:44 AM

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
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Friday, June 02, 2006 12:27 AM

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.
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Sunday, October 09, 2005 4:26 AM

The COM objects in the product catalog system

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 from
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