Get Windows 7 Beta Today

Windows 7 beta is available to public. I had seen a demo at MVP open day on windows 7 and it was very impressive. I feel, Microsoft has implemented all things to required to make this OS a success with the lessons learn in Vista and seeing current customer expectations. I am very much excited to see the preview. You can also download the link from MS site. Check below link for more details.

http://microsoftblog.co.in/2009/01/10/want-to-download-windows-7/

Commerce Server 2009 – December 2008 CTP Now Available

Yesterday Microsoft has released it’s new Mojave December CTP. Check Commerce server blog for more details.

http://microsoftblog.co.in/commerceserver/commerce-server-2009-december-2008-ctp-now-available/

Mojave – What Technologies you should learn

Mojave – the next version of commerce server is coming with lot of new features. These new features are developed on top of other technologies other than commerce server. If you are a commerce server developer and want to develop ecommerce applications on top of Mojave then developer should have command in some more technologies. Click the below linke to more about it.

http://microsoftblog.co.in/commerceserver/mojave-what-technologies-you-should-learn/

Anonymous Checkout in commerce server

Commerce server supports anonymous checkout. Check my entry in commerce server blog on to achieve it.

 

http://microsoftblog.co.in/commerceserver/anonymous-checkout-in-commerce-server/

Handling Inventory returns in Commerce Server

I have created a new post on how to handle returned items in Commerce server Inventory System. Click blow link for more details.

http://microsoftblog.co.in/commerceserver/handling-inventory-returns-in-commerce-server/

Official Microsoft Team Blogs

There are around 203+ team blogs. On BlogMS a summary will be published weekly (each Monday) and monthly providing you a single article with a listing of all the latest announcements.   You can then browse through this article saving you valuable time and effort.  When you identify articles of interest you will be able to click on the article link, and it will take you directly to the blog. A full directory of all Microsoft blogs can be found on the Microsoft Communities Website.

Check below link for more details
http://microsoftblog.co.in/2008/12/13/official-microsoft-team-blogs/

Mojave November CTP VPC

With multiple retries, I failed to install Mojave November CTP on my VPC. Even though the installation has improved from October CTP, there are many manual settings still exist and somehow the installation is not getting completed. Early December, Microsoft has released November CTP virtual PC which contains all software and configurations to run Mojave. Thanks Microsoft for providing and it will help us to explore new features instead of fighting to install and configure the software.

You can download it from connect site and the URL is
https://connect.microsoft.com/Downloads/DownloadDetails.aspx?DownloadID=15288&SiteID=643

Note: You need access to download this VPC. Please connect to CS support team for further assistance.

I will be posting my findings on Mojave soon. So.. stay tuned.

Commerce Server Mojave November CTP

Today Microsoft has released their next version commece server – "Mojave" november CTP. This CTP includes API enhancements, new core functionalities like wish lists and new multi-channel commerce foundation. The commerce foundation leverages Microsoft live services, Live ID for authentication, Live Contacts for address book management, and Virtual Earth for store location. It also includes sharepoint commerce services, including 29 outof box ecommerce web parts and default out of box site with search functionality.

This CTP includes following downloadables

MOJAVE ISO file – 27 MB file

MOJAVE November CTP help file – 66 KB

MOJAVE installation document – 628 KB

 

You can download CTP from below link.

https://connect.microsoft.com/Downloads/DownloadDetails.aspx?SiteID=643&DownloadID=14940

 

Watch out this blog to know more about my findings in November CTP.

Microsoft Virtual Tech days

It’s time to refresh our skills and Microsoft is bringing three days virtual tech sessions on market’s latest technologies I will be presenting a topic named -"Architecting Rich Internet Ecommerce Applications Using Silverlight & Commerce server " on 25th November at 5:15 PM.

You can find my profile at
http://www.virtualtechdays.com/speakers.aspx#RaviKanthKoppala

So, what are you waiting for? Visit the site and register yourself for this session.

Apply discount to Least expense product

"Buy X products, get a product free" is one of the discount type supported by commerce server. So, whenever user checkouts some products, he will get 100% discount one product. For example, the user added first product of 10$, second product of 20$ and third product of 30$ into basket and initiated checkout process then he will get discount of 30$.

By default, commerce server total pipeline is configured to provide discounts to most expensive product. If you want to give discount to least expensive product then perform following steps

1. Open commerce server pipeline editor.
2. Open "Basket" Pipeline
3. Right click on "OrderDiscount" and select properties.
4. Select "Least expensive first" option from the dropdown and press ok button (as shown below).