Microsoft Commerce Server

Resource on this site

MyCommerceServerDocumentation

MyCommerceServerUtilities

MyCommerceServerProgrammingTips

Background Info

• http://rcpmag.com/products/article.aspx?editorialsid=120

Microsoft Resources

• Microsoft's Commerce Server Home Page

• Commerce Server Documentation

• Microsoft's MSDN Commerce Server Community

• MSDN Commerce Server Forum

• Commerce Server Feature Comparison

• Installation Guide

• One of the key things to understand are catalogs, categories, product families and product variants. Read about them here.

• SDK Guide

• Microsoft Commerce Server 2007 SDK Readme

• Microsoft Commerce Server 2007 Partner SDK Download

• Microsoft Commerce Server 2007 Partner SDK Documentation Download

CS2007 Updates

• Update for Commerce Server 2007 (KB912817)

• Service Pack 1 (see also this guys's experience with this )

Sample App Resources

• CS2007 Starter Site Download

• Start Site Help Documentation Download

Other Code

• http://www.codeplex.com/CS2007

Unit Testing

• Unit Testing

MSDN On-Demand Webcasts, Live Webcasts, Virtual Labs for "Commerce Server 2007"

• https://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/SearchResults.aspx?culture=en-US&evtTyp=3%2c2%2c4&kwdExact=Commerce%20Server%202007&lng=en&advFlag=1

TechNet Webcasts

• http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/comm/2007/webcasts.mspx

Microsoft Commerce Server Team Blog

• http://blogs.msdn.com/commerce/default.aspx

Other Blogs

• Max Akbar's Blog has some of the best material on CS2007 available as of the time of this writing.
  
  

  • Start with his Pre-training Resources
    
    

  • Take a look at Max's series on pipeline components - good stuff.
    

    • Max Akbar's - Pipeline Components Part I - is a good introduction to pipelines and thier purposes. Includes coverages of the Pipeline Editor, Pipeline Configuration Files (*.pcf), Pipeline Stages and Components, Pipeline Execution Objects (MtsPipeline, MtxTxPipeline, etc.)
      
      

    • Max Akbar's - Pipeline Components Part II - this covers the basics of creating a pipeline component in C#, registering and then adding the newly created component into a pipeline by using the Pipeline Editor.
      
      

    • Max Akbar's - Pipeline Components Part III - this entry goes into more details about implementing a custom pipeline component including the various required (IPipelineComponent) and optional (IPipelineComponentAdmin) COM interfaces.
      
      

    • Max Akbar's - Pipeline Components Part IV - Covers creating property pages for your pipeline components as well as pipeline component debugging. Don't miss the link (shown below) on how to run pipeline components from a console applicatoin.
      
      

      • Also see Running Pipeline Components from a Console App from Nihit Kaul's World of Commerce and TestingNihit Kaul's World of Commerce and Testing

      • Also check out the XMLTracer pipeline component for troubleshooting

      • XMLTracer was initially developed as part of this article about Commerce Server 2002

      • Another good link in this article is How to use the Scriptor component
        
        

• Colin Bowern's Commerce Server Blog Category

• http://blogs.msdn.com/maxakbar/archive/2006/09/20/764024.aspx

• http://blogs.msdn.com/davidme/default.aspx

• Pipeline Component Helper code here from Colin Bowern

• A blog on transactional pipeline components

• Commerce Topics

• A blog with a pipeline component template

• http://commerceserver.blog.co.in/about/

• http://blogs.msdn.com/tschultz/archive/tags/Commerce+Server/default.aspx

Credit Card Payment Legalease

• http://www.pcicomplianceguide.org/

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Related Technoloogies

• Authorization Manager

Commerce Server 2002 Stuff

• Moving a commerce server database (2000/2002)

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