Archive for December 2009
December 11, 2009 | 
Author I am very happy that I was part of commerce server 2007 book and has contributed significant content. Commerce server market is growing day by day but the supply of resources are not available in the market (against demand). The commerce server trainers who are in the market can only tell what is there in the presentation but not real time examples and architecture considerations and unfortunately there is no commerce book for learning (of course we have MSDN which is good for referring but not for learning) thus putting the people under stress in projects and the projects in red zone. Many people believes commerce server development is not straight forward and works only with lot of workarounds but I believe the architects must have architected their application without knowing commerce server capabilities and limitations.
I have received couple of offers from book companies to write books but finally they are also in jeopardy to go with this book. Now many people started using CS2009 with SharePoint flavor and I feel developers badly require this book. I thought of writing a book (no publication as of now) with 9 chapters (around 350-400 pages and may add few more chapters) and targeted only to developers and will share to the community in next 6 months (max). Thought of including following chapters.
- Introduction of commerce server 2009
- Development Concepts (over view of tools)
- SharePoint Integration
- Commerce server multi channel foundation (API model)
- Working with Catalog System (with CS foundation)
- Working with Inventory System(with CS foundation)
- Working with Profile System(with CS foundation)
- Working with Order System(with CS foundation)
- Working with Marketing System(with CS foundation)
Each chapter will have following things
- Tips
- Hint
- Quiz
- Self walkthrough
- Assignments
- Examples
- Code snippets
If you feel something has to be covered in this book, please send your comments to my email Id – kanth@ravikanth.net
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One of my friend faced this issue (“Failed in catalog – error ) and forward to us for help. He received this error after creating commerce server site using CS 09 tool “SharePoint Commerce Services Configuration Wizard” and when he tried to open the web page. Unfortunately there is no help available on this error in internet.
We have make sure that it error is not due to configuration issue and cross verified following configuration settings.
- IIS Security
- Adman – privileges provided to the windows account in all authorization stores.
- SQL Server permissions.
- Profile connection strings (even though the error message shows catalog but the error description shows profile).
- checked web.comfit file if all settings are fine.
All settings are fine as expected but when we checked profile schema, we found that it was not properly imported by the tool. If you observe below image, you can observe the profile catalog is missing.
The resolution is to import the profile schema again (right click on yellow icon –> import –> select XML to import) and refresh to see the changes on the screen.
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To Developer: Check whether installation tool has logged any error. To Microsoft: To make the error more precise – instead of just catalog, they should have mentioned profile catalog in the error. |
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