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The joy (or rather not so joyful) of COM interop

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...
    by Colin

Building an Order Pipeline Component

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...
    by Colin

Developing Your First Order Pipeline Component

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...
    by Colin

Changing Order Number Behaviour in Commerce Server 2007

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...
    by Colin

Deploying Commerce Server 2007 Sites without Site Packager

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...
    by Colin