Microsoft Commerce Server makes use of web services to perform the e-commerce business transactions as well as other associated functionality along with the inventory and marketing. There are mainly 4 webservices as follows: 1. Catalog Webservice – Responsible for the Products and inventory management 2. Marketing Webservice-Resposible for the management of advertisements,discounts etc 3. Order […]

The PurchaseOrderManager is a sealed class and used to retrieve and store the PurchaseOrder object in Commerce Server. This class has a method named SearchPurchaseOrders() which takes two parameters to search the Purchase Orders existing in Commerce Server and returns it as a DataSet. Parameters taken by this method: 1. SearchClause:– Specifies the conditions that […]

The Catalog schema consists of metadata like definitions for Products, properties and categories stored in the site’s product catalog database. Commerce Server Catalog System provides a set of APIs to manage catalog schema for your e-commerce site. By using this we can create definitions of property, category and product. We can also update the properties. […]

This tip demonstrates how to format a cart at runtime and calculate the total (including discount amount) in MS Commerce Server. The steps are: Step 1: Create a new basket. For Example: Basket newBasket=OrderManager.GetBasket(Guid.NewGuid()); Step 2 : Add lineitems to the cart. For example: CommerceServerLineItem csLineItem = new CommerceServerLineItem(); csLineItem.ProductId =”1″; csLineItem.ProductCatalog = “Catalog”; csLineItem.ProductCategory […]

This tip explains how to search for products in any catalog of CatalogManager by using free text as search criteria. The following method demonstrates it. Note: We can perform FreeTextSearch on those Properties only whose freeTextSearchable property is set to TRUE. This method returns a DataSet with all the informations of the Products as results […]

To place the Products in CatalogManager we need a BaseCatalog. Once we have a catalog schema defined for e-commerce site then we can add actual data in form of BaseCatalogs, VirtualCatalogs, Categories, Products etc. To Create a BaseCatalog we need to provide the values to some of the parameters by calling the CreateBaseCatalog() method using […]