Vinayak's WebLogThings you wanted to know about Microsoft Commerce ServerSecuring the catalog system- June 28, 2006 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 the web service it became imperative to ensure that only authorized users can access the catalog data. The catalog system in Commerce Server 2007 has two main components: the catalog web service and the catalog database. Both these components..http://blogs.msdn.com/vinayakt/archive/2006/06/28/Securing-the-catalog-system.aspx Want to try Microsoft Commerce Server 2007 for free- June 20, 2006 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.http://blogs.msdn.com/vinayakt/archive/2006/06/19/638212.aspx Improving the catalog search experience in Commerce Server 2007- June 18, 2006 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 featuresconditions is something we are looking forward to, in the upcoming releases. This should allow you to specify more complex search phrases." Commerce Server 2007 now allows you to specify complex search phrases which allow you to customize your searches to the...http://blogs.msdn.com/vinayakt/archive/2006/06/18/Improving-the-catalog-search-experience-... Implementing Thesaurus support in the catalog system- June 12, 2006 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 the replacement phrase. These synonyms and replacements can be configured using the xml files.See this link for configuring the xml files. If you are using Sql Server 2005 as your Commerce Server database...http://blogs.msdn.com/vinayakt/archive/2006/06/12/Implementing-Thesaurus-support-in-the-ca... New Catalogset features in Commerce Server 2007- June 7, 2006 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 sets.This functionality is also available through the catalog web service. In addition you can now export and import catalog sets just as you can import and export product catalogs. In addition we have also...http://blogs.msdn.com/vinayakt/archive/2006/06/07/New-Catalogset-features-in-Commerce-Serv... Caching in the catalog system- June 2, 2006 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. These results are cached in the form of datasets. The catalog system uses the System.Web.Caching.Cache object to cache the various datasets. Each dataset is...http://blogs.msdn.com/vinayakt/archive/2006/06/02/Caching-in-the-catalog-system.aspx |