Commerce Server Blog

Today Microsoft has released new pre-release build (January 2010 CTP) for review. This CTP is valid through December 31, 2010 and supported in following platforms.

• Windows Server 2008 R2, with SQL Server 2008 SP1 and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 SP2
• Windows Server 2008 SP2, with SQL Server 2008 SP1 and Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 SP2
• Windows Server 2008 SP2, with SQL Server 2008 SP1 and Microsoft Office SharePoint Services 2007 SP2

You can download bits from Microsoft website and the url is.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=d6cb6769-6c5e-46c2-a72a-a9911823ffd9

Some of the highlights in this release are

• New naming convention for all file handlers and other class name changes/additions.
• Commerce Server pipelines fail if the culture ID is not added to the ChannelConfiguration.config file.
• New public API changes.
• RequestedPromoCode section in MetadataDefiniton.xml file must be modified.
• The setup for Commerce Foundation Components does not include the assembly Microsoft.Commerce.dll
• Must add /pages to your site URL when using WSS
• Microsoft.Commerce.Application.Common.EtwTraceListener and Microsoft.Commerce.Application.Common API changes

Some of the low lights are

• Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2010 is not supported for this release.
• plus –> a bunch of known issues – http://download.microsoft.com/download/8/A/7/8A774702-9ECE-4353-A2CF-03A8E31118D6/Microsoft_Commerce_Server_R2_Readme_January_2010_CTP.htm#WhatsNew