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It turns out that the ISimpleList and IDictionary objects will not always return to you a value which is typed with the .NET equivalent types. It makes for a bit of a sticky situation when you are trying to determine if the type is compatible in the world of generic collections. I had to make a key change...
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Jan 31 2007, 12:18 PM
by
Colin
As I spoke about in an earlier post, Commerce Server 2007 leverages a COM-based pipeline system to perform a series of operations on an order. The logic in the pipeline is controled, for the most part, by individual pipeline components. Each component pefroms a specific operation on the order form and...
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Posted on
Jan 30 2007, 10:50 PM
by
Colin
Check out the attached pipeline component project templates (VB.NET and C#). I've also included a C# unit test for a pipeline component. I'm working on packaging other aspects of our pipeline development work to share. Let me know what you're interested in by leaving a comment!
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Nov 12 2006, 10:28 PM
by
Colin
As previously discussed the pipeline system enables sequential workflow processing. It is a COM-based system which has been migrated over the years from the Site Server and previous Commerce Server releases to the current release. Given it's use of COM you will benefit from spending some time to...
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Posted on
Nov 11 2006, 07:53 PM
by
Colin
Commerce Server delivers a pipeline system to enable sequential workflow processing scenarios for your commerce site. The types of process scenarios can include: Order Processing Content Selection Event Processing Direct Mailing Several examples of these scenarios are listed in the documentation . The...
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Nov 11 2006, 04:55 PM
by
Colin
I was surprised to see the order numbers jumping by 5,000 after each unit test I ran on a Commerce Server 2007 site. It appears that functionality had changed from 2002. To give you a bit of background, Commerce Server assigns a tracking number to an order as it is converted from a Basket to PurchaseOrder...
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Nov 10 2006, 04:41 PM
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Colin
In case you haven't seen it, the Commerce Server product group has started a group blog . One thing that I noticed (perhaps unintentional on their part?) is the distancing from sole focus on Commerce Server in the titling and descriptive bits (the "Commerce team"). I wonder if that is any indication...
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Posted on
Nov 05 2006, 05:22 PM
by
Colin
From my initial investigation Site Packager's evolution has been unclear in the latest release of Microsoft Commerce Server . One of the most obvious holes was the lack of documentation and support for command-line deployment. While there has been some improvement in this latest release, it still...
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Posted on
Nov 05 2006, 04:31 AM
by
Colin