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8/26/2009 9:52:36 PM
A few things you didn’t know about CSS and how catalogs move from one environment to another. The process of using the CSS is pretty simple just use the MMC console for CSS and setup your project but there are some undocumented and some scenarios that will cause you some issues that you need to be aware.
So will I sing praise unto thy name for ever. that my Commerce Server site may daily perform
Someone had asked as to why his relationship would not move form one environment to
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8/26/2009 9:39:18 PM
As promised here is the code for the previous post on hacking the CSS engine.
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8/25/2009 2:05:44 PM
In the previous post I showed you how to create a custom UI for the Commerce Server Staging (CSS). In this post I will show you how you can create a custom handler that will fire and perform some action based on the custom UI.
Custom Handler
As noted in previous post CSS uses managed code for data import\exports. CSS engine works on using a factory object to create handlers depending on the project type name. The project type name is specified in the “BusinessDataTypes.xml”
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8/22/2009 2:04:00 PM
Way back when I was a program manger on the Commerce Server Product Group one of my features was Commerce Server Staging (CSS). While going over CSS with the dev team and PMs I wanted to make CSS extensible so customers could create their own CSS projects. But as is with everything else this decision was met with “We don’t have time and resources” and it was dropped.
The dev manager thought it was good idea and stated that he would keep the APIs public that way in the next version of
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8/13/2009 2:23:16 PM
You may notice over time that your site is slow specifically the Catalog calls. In this post I hope to address some performance improvements by doing adding a maintenance task.
Catalog System
I am not going to tell you what the Catalog System is you can always find info in the help files but I will explain some of the internals that slows down over time. Looking at how Commerce Server retrieve data is a bit interesting. The Catalog System has two databases one Your_Sit
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8/13/2009 8:32:33 AM
I have been asked as to why the comment section of my blog is turned off. It seems that a porn site is trying to up their rating so they posted comment with links. It was becoming a headache to manage so I turned them off. It’s not that I don’t want you to comment I just don’t want to promote porn :). If you have a comment or question please send them to maximum2000 AT hotmail DOT com.
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8/13/2009 8:27:00 AM
I have always been asked the question of moving to CS2009 or staying with CS2007. Currently there are two versions CS2009 and CS2009\R2 which can make the choice even more difficult. Before I go through the benefits of the different version let me just come right out and say it.
I have never been a big fan of CS2009, the reason is that CS2009 was supposed to be a solution accelerator and now it has been made into a product. I believe that it is far from a complete product :(. If you g
Posted
8/12/2009 12:01:39 PM
Does Commerce Server support real time inventory system? That’s the question of the day and I hope to shed some light on this subject.
Commerce Server Inventory System
The Inventory is a bit different than the other Systems in Commerce Server. In order to use the Inventory System you have to have the Catalog System but the other way is not true. You can have a Catalog System with no Inventory. Even thought there is a relationship between Inventory and Catalog they are two di