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Things you wanted to know about Microsoft Commerce Server
Commerce Server 2002 Feature Pack has been released
The Commerce Server 2002 Feature Pack has been released and can be downloaded from here. The Feature...
Author: vinayakt Date: 05/20/2004
Specification Search in the catalog system
Specification search is a cool feature in the product catalog system which allows you to search...
Author: vinayakt Date: 05/18/2004
Performing category searches in the catalog system
Just as you can perform freetext and/or property searches on one or more catalogs in the catalog...
Author: vinayakt Date: 05/13/2004
Property based searches in the catalog system
While fulltext search allows you to search for phrases which return results that match their...
Author: vinayakt Date: 05/08/2004
Implemeting full-text search in the catalog system
The Product catalog system uses the SQL 2000 fulltext search to implement fulltext searching. The...
Author: vinayakt Date: 05/05/2004
Catalog classtypes and search functionality in the catalog system
The catalog component in the Runtime BCLs contains an enumeration named CatalogClassTypes. This...
Author: vinayakt Date: 05/04/2004
Getting the most appropriate list of catalogs for the current user
I was looking at the documentation of CommerceContext.GetCatalogsForUser and there is surprisingly...
Author: vinayakt Date: 04/29/2004
MSIB v2.5 has shipped
The Microsoft Solution for Internet Business v2.5 has shipped Overview The Microsoft Solution for...
Author: vinayakt Date: 04/28/2004
Virtual Catalogs : To materialize or not to materialize
Commerce Server 2002 introduced a feature which allowed content from one or more base catalogs to be...
Author: vinayakt Date: 04/28/2004
Things you should know about the MSCS_CatalogScratch database
The Product team received a number of queries regarding the MSCS_CatalogScratch database and so I...
Author: vinayakt Date: 04/27/2004
My first blog!
I am Vinayak Tadas, a developer in the Commerce Server team in Microsoft. Seeing so many blogs on...
Author: vinayakt Date: 04/21/2004