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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Hi Ravi,
i am working on CS09 and has lot of stuff still pending. can you please provide me/us the soft copy of the material what you have already.
or atleast guide us.
Thanks!
Nizam,
Currently I am in initial stages of the book and may not able to share the documents. If you have any specific things to be covered as part of the book, please let me know.
Thanks,
-Ravi Kanth
Ravi:
What is the CS 2007 book you refer to in the post?
Thanks
Hi Ravi,
I work on Websphere Commerce Server 6.0. Can you please let me know the market share of this Product from IBM? and if possible the rankings of all the products in the market for the year 2009
Thanks,
Ajay
HI Ravi,
I working on moss.but i want learn MS Commerce server 2009. Can u provide the e book.
thanks in advance.
sujan
Sujan, I haven’t completed this book and due to some other priorities, I parked this activity aside for the timing being.
Why don’t you take CS2009 training?
Hi Ravikanth,
I recently got involved with CS2009 and thanks to your posts I have learned a lot.
I was wondering if you have made any progress on your book, also I think it is important for you to include a multilingual and multicatalog, and staging section which is what had given me a lot of headeaches.
Thanks,
Daniel
Daniel,
Due to some reasons, I have dropped idea of writing a book. I will take your comments and try to write few blog articles (with video) in near future.