[IIS] Have a serious look at the IIS 7 rewriting module
The different VPCs or site template released by the Commerce Server team was all without the url rewriting enabled. Which is not good from a SEO perspective. But it’s understandable as you can have many different ways to achieve that. The solution I’ll expose here is about a news IIS module released shortly: URL Rewrite Module. This module is an extension of IIS7.0 and brings you very nice features:Rules-based URL rewriting engine; Regular expression pattern matching; Wildcard pattern matching; Global and distributed rewrite rules; Access to server variables and HTTP headers; Various rule actions including redirect and request abort; Support for IIS kernel mode and user mode output cach

[Commerce Server 2009] The last Commerce Server 2009 R2 CTP is out
The Commerce Server team has released a new CTP for Commerce Server 2009 R2 and some good stuff was done by the Commerce Server team. So, you understand that my first impressions are very positive :) First, you can say good bye to your old pals 32 bits processor, SQL Server 2000, 2005 and windows 2000, 2003, ‘cause now Commerce Server 2009 R2 just running on 64 bits processor, SQL 2008 (R2 or not) and Windows 2008 (R2 or not).

[Commerce Server] Don’t forget the ProductConfiguration / CategoryConfiguration in your developmen
These last few days, I was called for different Commerce Server expertise and I saw that a lot of Commerce Server implementation was done without 2 important are unaware, here are: Microsoft.CommerceServer.Catalog.ProductConfiguration Microsoft.CommerceServer.Catalog.CategoryConfiguration These two classes inherit from Microsoft.CommerceServer.Catalog.CatalogItemConfiguration, and there are used to load only the objects you use. Why? Because :) When you want to display the product price or its description you do not need to get its ancestors, variants, related products and so have a simple and lighter Product or Category…

[Commerce Server] The Data Warehouse & analytics reports
In the Commerce Server enterprise edition, you can have access to the analytics reports and to a data warehouse. In this post, I will show you how to configure them, and in the same time have a quick look on what it’s look like.

[Commerce Server] How to sort different Commerce Server properties in a different order
To follow a thread in Commerce Server forum: How could i sort by property1 ASC and property2 DESC in a catalog search?, I was surpised that one of the basic Commerce Server feature was not understandood. It’s a common task in e-Commerce to sort a product list (or for a category) in different way for different properties, ie property1 ascending and property2 descending and keep the paging stuck to those properties ordering.