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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
Posted by vinayakt | 1 Comments
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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Tuesday, August 29, 2006 12:40 PM

Unable to import a commerce server catalog on Windows XP

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"
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Wednesday, June 28, 2006 12:20 AM

Securing the catalog system

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
Posted by vinayakt | 2 Comments
Monday, June 19, 2006 10:31 PM

Want to try Microsoft Commerce Server 2007 for free?

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 here .
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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
Posted by vinayakt | 1 Comments
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
Posted by vinayakt | 3 Comments
Wednesday, June 07, 2006 2:39 AM

New Catalogset features in Commerce Server 2007

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
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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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Wednesday, May 31, 2006 2:49 AM

New Virtual catalog features in Commerce Server 2007

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
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Tuesday, May 30, 2006 1:20 AM

New catalog sequencing features in Commerce Server 2007

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
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Monday, May 22, 2006 2:12 AM

New catalog search features in Commerce Server 2007

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,
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Saturday, May 20, 2006 12:14 AM

Microsoft Commerce Server 2007 Release Candidate is now available

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
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