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          <strong>PlacedPrice</strong> is a property of a basket line item in the Commerce Server
object model.  The name suggests (IMO) that it contains the<em />price of
the item <em>at the time the order was placed.  </em>However, PlacedPrice actually
contains the list price of the item <em>at the time it was placed in the basket.  </em>The
property exists to track the list price of an item, so that if it changes during the
lifetime of the basket the customer can be informed (if required).
</p>
        <h2>How is the Placed Price Populated?
</h2>
        <p>
The PlacedPrice property is populated after you run a pipeline that contains the component <strong>RequiredItemAdjustPriceCy.  </strong>Pipeline
components operate on IDictionary types rather than the CS object model.  Therefore,
the RequiredItemAdjustPriceCy actually populates the <strong>cy_placed_price</strong> value
of each line item dictionary.  If cy_placed_price is empty the value of <strong>cy_iadjust_current_price </strong>is
copied into it.  Once you save the basket with populated cy_placed_price values
the value is left untouched on future runs.  
</p>
        <p>
RequiredItemAdjustPriceCy is configured in the the basket.pcf pipeline that is provided
with the Starter Site and the other installed PUP sites.  Therefore, it is likely
you have this component configure in your site.  The image below shows the component
and describes it’s PlacedPrice behaviour:
</p>
        <p>
          <a href="http://bentaylor.org/content/binary/WindowsLiveWriter/WhatisalineitemsPlacedPrice_12F51/Commerce-Server-Basket-Pipeline-With-RequiredItemAdjustPriceCy_2.png">
            <img title="Image of a Commerce Server basket pipeline with the RequiredItemAdjustPriceCy component highlighted and an explanation of how this component populates the cy_placed_price property of a line item dictionary." style="border-top-width: 0px; display: inline; border-left-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px" height="728" alt="Image of a Commerce Server basket pipeline with the RequiredItemAdjustPriceCy component highlighted and an explanation of how this component populates the cy_placed_price property of a line item dictionary." src="http://bentaylor.org/content/binary/WindowsLiveWriter/WhatisalineitemsPlacedPrice_12F51/Commerce-Server-Basket-Pipeline-With-RequiredItemAdjustPriceCy_thumb.png" width="698" border="0" />
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        <p>
The description text on this image is taken from the documentation for <a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms915229.aspx">RequiredItemAdjustPriceCy</a>. 
Below are other excerpts relating to PlacedPrice taken from the <a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms864793.aspx">Commerce
Server 2007 documentation</a>.
</p>
        <h2>Additional Commerce Server Documentation on PlacePrice
</h2>
        <ul>
          <li>
            <a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/microsoft.commerceserver.runtime.orders.lineitem.placedprice.aspx">LineItem.PlacedPrice
Property documentation</a>: 
<br />
”Gets or sets the unit price of the line item at the time it was added to an order
group.” 
</li>
          <li>
            <a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb520922.aspx">LineItems Table documentation</a>: 
<br />
”The unit price of the line item at the time that it was added to the order group.” 
</li>
          <li>
            <a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms915229.aspx">RequiredItemAdjustPriceCy</a>
          </li>
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      <title>LineItem PlacedPrice (cy_placed_price) 101</title>
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      <description>&lt;p&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;PlacedPrice&lt;/strong&gt; is a property of a basket line item in the Commerce Server
object model.&amp;#160; The name suggests (IMO) that it contains the&lt;em&gt; &lt;/em&gt;price of
the item &lt;em&gt;at the time the order was placed.&amp;#160; &lt;/em&gt;However, PlacedPrice actually
contains the list price of the item &lt;em&gt;at the time it was placed in the basket.&amp;#160; &lt;/em&gt;The
property exists to track the list price of an item, so that if it changes during the
lifetime of the basket the customer can be informed (if required).
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;How is the Placed Price Populated?
&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;
The PlacedPrice property is populated after you run a pipeline that contains the component &lt;strong&gt;RequiredItemAdjustPriceCy.&amp;#160; &lt;/strong&gt;Pipeline
components operate on IDictionary types rather than the CS object model.&amp;#160; Therefore,
the RequiredItemAdjustPriceCy actually populates the &lt;strong&gt;cy_placed_price&lt;/strong&gt; value
of each line item dictionary.&amp;#160; If cy_placed_price is empty the value of &lt;strong&gt;cy_iadjust_current_price &lt;/strong&gt;is
copied into it.&amp;#160; Once you save the basket with populated cy_placed_price values
the value is left untouched on future runs.&amp;#160; 
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;
RequiredItemAdjustPriceCy is configured in the the basket.pcf pipeline that is provided
with the Starter Site and the other installed PUP sites.&amp;#160; Therefore, it is likely
you have this component configure in your site.&amp;#160; The image below shows the component
and describes it’s PlacedPrice behaviour:
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;
&lt;a href="http://bentaylor.org/content/binary/WindowsLiveWriter/WhatisalineitemsPlacedPrice_12F51/Commerce-Server-Basket-Pipeline-With-RequiredItemAdjustPriceCy_2.png"&gt;&lt;img title="Image of a Commerce Server basket pipeline with the RequiredItemAdjustPriceCy component highlighted and an explanation of how this component populates the cy_placed_price property of a line item dictionary." style="border-top-width: 0px; display: inline; border-left-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px" height="728" alt="Image of a Commerce Server basket pipeline with the RequiredItemAdjustPriceCy component highlighted and an explanation of how this component populates the cy_placed_price property of a line item dictionary." src="http://bentaylor.org/content/binary/WindowsLiveWriter/WhatisalineitemsPlacedPrice_12F51/Commerce-Server-Basket-Pipeline-With-RequiredItemAdjustPriceCy_thumb.png" width="698" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; 
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;
The description text on this image is taken from the documentation for &lt;a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms915229.aspx"&gt;RequiredItemAdjustPriceCy&lt;/a&gt;.&amp;#160;
Below are other excerpts relating to PlacedPrice taken from the &lt;a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms864793.aspx"&gt;Commerce
Server 2007 documentation&lt;/a&gt;.
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;Additional Commerce Server Documentation on PlacePrice
&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;
&lt;a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/microsoft.commerceserver.runtime.orders.lineitem.placedprice.aspx"&gt;LineItem.PlacedPrice
Property documentation&lt;/a&gt;: 
&lt;br /&gt;
”Gets or sets the unit price of the line item at the time it was added to an order
group.” 
&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;
&lt;a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb520922.aspx"&gt;LineItems Table documentation&lt;/a&gt;: 
&lt;br /&gt;
”The unit price of the line item at the time that it was added to the order group.” 
&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;
&lt;a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms915229.aspx"&gt;RequiredItemAdjustPriceCy&lt;/a&gt; 
&lt;/li&gt;
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          <a href="http://bentaylor.org/content/binary/WindowsLiveWriter/CommerceServerdiscount_timestampCuriosit_11F18/back-to-the-future-film-poster_2.jpg">
            <img style="border-top-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px" height="260" alt="back-to-the-future-film-poster" src="http://bentaylor.org/content/binary/WindowsLiveWriter/CommerceServerdiscount_timestampCuriosit_11F18/back-to-the-future-film-poster_thumb.jpg" width="196" align="right" border="0" />
          </a> The
Commerce Server <a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms960086.aspx">OrderDiscount
pipeline component</a> writes applicable discount information into the Order dictionary. 
Specifically, it writes discount information into the <em>item._itemlevel_discounts_applied  </em>SimpleList<em />and
the <em>_orderlevel_discounts_detail </em>Dictionary/SimpleList.  The written
information includes the property <em>discount_timestamp</em> which contains the last
modified DateTime for the discount.  <strong>Curiously, it would appear that
the values placed in these <em>discount_timestamp</em> properties are always one second
later than the <em>actual</em> last modified DateTime value</strong>.  The correct
value can be found in the <em>dt_campaignitem_modified </em>column of the <em>mktg_campaign_item</em> table
(where the discounts and other campaign items are stored).
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        <p>
Is this a hack of some sort?  A mistake on my part?  A bug?  I have
not done a detailed investigation (as that would be sad) so I don't really know the
answer.
</p>
        <p>
          <em>Filed under Commerce Server minutiae.  Do not read when operating heavy machinery
as may cause drowsiness.</em>
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      <title>OrderDiscount Writes discount_timestamp Properties Into The Future?</title>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 10 Mar 2009 14:50:21 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;
&lt;a href="http://bentaylor.org/content/binary/WindowsLiveWriter/CommerceServerdiscount_timestampCuriosit_11F18/back-to-the-future-film-poster_2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="border-top-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px" height="260" alt="back-to-the-future-film-poster" src="http://bentaylor.org/content/binary/WindowsLiveWriter/CommerceServerdiscount_timestampCuriosit_11F18/back-to-the-future-film-poster_thumb.jpg" width="196" align="right" border="0"&gt;&lt;/a&gt; The
Commerce Server &lt;a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms960086.aspx"&gt;OrderDiscount
pipeline component&lt;/a&gt; writes applicable discount information into the Order dictionary.&amp;nbsp;
Specifically, it writes discount information into the &lt;em&gt;item._itemlevel_discounts_applied&amp;nbsp; &lt;/em&gt;SimpleList&lt;em&gt; &lt;/em&gt;and
the &lt;em&gt;_orderlevel_discounts_detail &lt;/em&gt;Dictionary/SimpleList.&amp;nbsp; The written
information includes the property &lt;em&gt;discount_timestamp&lt;/em&gt; which contains the last
modified DateTime for the discount.&amp;nbsp; &lt;strong&gt;Curiously, it would appear that
the values placed in these &lt;em&gt;discount_timestamp&lt;/em&gt; properties are always one second
later than the &lt;em&gt;actual&lt;/em&gt; last modified DateTime value&lt;/strong&gt;.&amp;nbsp; The correct
value can be found in the &lt;em&gt;dt_campaignitem_modified &lt;/em&gt;column of the &lt;em&gt;mktg_campaign_item&lt;/em&gt; table
(where the discounts and other campaign items are stored).
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;
Is this a hack of some sort?&amp;nbsp; A mistake on my part?&amp;nbsp; A bug?&amp;nbsp; I have
not done a detailed investigation (as that would be sad) so I don't really know the
answer.
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;
&lt;em&gt;Filed under Commerce Server minutiae.&amp;nbsp; Do not read when operating heavy machinery
as may cause drowsiness.&lt;/em&gt;
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          <strong>
            <a href="http://bentaylor.org/content/binary/WindowsLiveWriter/FixMicrosoftFileTransferManagerKeepsDown_AC81/microsoft-file-transfer-manager_2.png">
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            </a>The
Problem:  </strong>A few months back I had some issues downloading files from
Microsoft Connect and MSDN Subscriber Downloads.  Ever since then, the Microsoft
File Transfer Manager (FTM) has been acting crazy.  <strong>It retains entries
to previous successful and cancelled downloads and attempts to re-download them (unsuccessfully)
every time I try and download something new.</strong>  Cancelling these entries
repeatedly does not make any difference.  They keep reappearing.  THIS IS
QUITE ANNOYING!  
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          <strong>The Fix:</strong>  Today I fixed the issue.  After firing up <a href="http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896645.aspx">Procmon</a> I
quickly determined that File Transfer Manager was reading files from the following
folder:
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        <p>
          <em>C:\Users\MickeyMouse\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\File Transfer Manager\RequestQueue</em>
        </p>
        <p>
The RequestQueue folder contained a bunch of files with the extension .dlm.  <strong>After
deleting all of these dlm files Microsoft FTM started working again as normal</strong>. 
I did not bother looking in these files, I just figured they contained the fubar requests
and thus deserved to be destroyed without impunity.
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        <p>
PS My username is not MickeyMouse.
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      <pubDate>Thu, 19 Feb 2009 12:16:11 GMT</pubDate>
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&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://bentaylor.org/content/binary/WindowsLiveWriter/FixMicrosoftFileTransferManagerKeepsDown_AC81/microsoft-file-transfer-manager_2.png"&gt;&lt;img style="border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-bottom: 0px" height="310" alt="Microsoft File Transfer Manager screen shot" src="http://bentaylor.org/content/binary/WindowsLiveWriter/FixMicrosoftFileTransferManagerKeepsDown_AC81/microsoft-file-transfer-manager_thumb.png" width="404" align="right" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;The
Problem:&amp;#160; &lt;/strong&gt;A few months back I had some issues downloading files from
Microsoft Connect and MSDN Subscriber Downloads.&amp;#160; Ever since then, the Microsoft
File Transfer Manager (FTM) has been acting crazy.&amp;#160; &lt;strong&gt;It retains entries
to previous successful and cancelled downloads and attempts to re-download them (unsuccessfully)
every time I try and download something new.&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;#160; Cancelling these entries
repeatedly does not make any difference.&amp;#160; They keep reappearing.&amp;#160; THIS IS
QUITE ANNOYING!&amp;#160; 
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;The Fix:&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;#160; Today I fixed the issue.&amp;#160; After firing up &lt;a href="http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896645.aspx"&gt;Procmon&lt;/a&gt; I
quickly determined that File Transfer Manager was reading files from the following
folder:
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;
&lt;em&gt;C:\Users\MickeyMouse\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\File Transfer Manager\RequestQueue&lt;/em&gt;
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;
The RequestQueue folder contained a bunch of files with the extension .dlm.&amp;#160; &lt;strong&gt;After
deleting all of these dlm files Microsoft FTM started working again as normal&lt;/strong&gt;.&amp;#160;
I did not bother looking in these files, I just figured they contained the fubar requests
and thus deserved to be destroyed without impunity.
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;
PS My username is not MickeyMouse.
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        <p>
The Commerce Server team demonstrated Microsoft Commerce Server 2009, at the recent <a href="http://www.nrf.com/press/Annual2009Photos.asp">National
Retail Federation 2009 Expo</a>.  I did not attend, but I just noticed a <a href="http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/presskits/REC/docs/CommerceServer2009FS.doc">Commerce
Server 2009 overview document</a> from the event.  Useful, if you want a quick
introduction.
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          <a href="http://bentaylor.org/content/binary/WindowsLiveWriter/CommerceServer2009OverviewDocumentfromNR_F23A/commerce_server_2009_solution_overview_diagram_2.jpg">
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          </a>  
<br />
Commerce Server 2009 Solution Overview Diagram 
<br /><em>This image is also from the document (although not itself, hugely enlightening).</em></p>
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      <title>Commerce Server 2009 Overview Document (from NRF)</title>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 25 Jan 2009 17:13:34 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;
The Commerce Server team demonstrated Microsoft Commerce Server 2009, at the recent &lt;a href="http://www.nrf.com/press/Annual2009Photos.asp"&gt;National
Retail Federation 2009 Expo&lt;/a&gt;.&amp;#160; I did not attend, but I just noticed a &lt;a href="http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/presskits/REC/docs/CommerceServer2009FS.doc"&gt;Commerce
Server 2009 overview document&lt;/a&gt; from the event.&amp;#160; Useful, if you want a quick
introduction.
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;
&lt;a href="http://bentaylor.org/content/binary/WindowsLiveWriter/CommerceServer2009OverviewDocumentfromNR_F23A/commerce_server_2009_solution_overview_diagram_2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-bottom: 0px" height="284" alt="Commerce Server 2009 Solution Overview Diagram" src="http://bentaylor.org/content/binary/WindowsLiveWriter/CommerceServer2009OverviewDocumentfromNR_F23A/commerce_server_2009_solution_overview_diagram_thumb.jpg" width="404" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;#160; 
&lt;br /&gt;
Commerce Server 2009 Solution Overview Diagram 
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;em&gt;This image is also from the document (although not itself, hugely enlightening).&lt;/em&gt;
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        <p>
So, I <a href="http://bentaylor.org/Commerce-Server-2009-CTP.aspx">blog about the
Commerce Server 2009 CTP</a> and two days later Microsoft go and ship the <a href="http://bentaylor.org/Commerce-Server-2009-CTP.aspx">Commerce
Server 2009 Release Candidate</a>!  Congratulations to the <a href="http://www.microsoft.com/en/us/default.aspx">Microsoft</a> and <a href="http://www.cactuscommerce.com/home/default_e.asp">Cactus</a> teams
for shipping regularly.  Looking forward to playing with the bits.  <a href="http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=b7eeda01-5cba-4945-a44e-a6f5e3eed0b0&amp;DisplayLang=en">Download
Commerce Server 2009 Release Candidate</a>.
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      <pubDate>Thu, 15 Jan 2009 21:26:33 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;
So, I &lt;a href="http://bentaylor.org/Commerce-Server-2009-CTP.aspx"&gt;blog about the
Commerce Server 2009 CTP&lt;/a&gt; and two days later Microsoft go and ship the &lt;a href="http://bentaylor.org/Commerce-Server-2009-CTP.aspx"&gt;Commerce
Server 2009 Release Candidate&lt;/a&gt;!&amp;#160; Congratulations to the &lt;a href="http://www.microsoft.com/en/us/default.aspx"&gt;Microsoft&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="http://www.cactuscommerce.com/home/default_e.asp"&gt;Cactus&lt;/a&gt; teams
for shipping regularly.&amp;#160; Looking forward to playing with the bits.&amp;#160; &lt;a href="http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=b7eeda01-5cba-4945-a44e-a6f5e3eed0b0&amp;amp;DisplayLang=en"&gt;Download
Commerce Server 2009 Release Candidate&lt;/a&gt;.
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          <a href="http://bentaylor.org/content/binary/WindowsLiveWriter/CommerceServer2009CTP_967F/ben_taylor_surfing_and_not_thinking_about_commerce_server_2009_2.jpg">
            <img style="border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-bottom: 0px" height="287" alt="Ben Taylor surfing and not thinking about Commerce Server 2009" src="http://bentaylor.org/content/binary/WindowsLiveWriter/CommerceServer2009CTP_967F/ben_taylor_surfing_and_not_thinking_about_commerce_server_2009_thumb.jpg" width="420" align="right" border="0" />
          </a> Er,
about a month ago, Microsoft released a <a href="http://www.microsoft.com/DOWNLOADS/details.aspx?FamilyID=dc30f74f-e510-40b4-8da2-895e33fc9490&amp;displaylang=en">CTP
of Commerce Server 2009</a> (the product formerly known as Commerce Server Mojave). 
This is the first feature complete release of the product, unlike the previous <a href="http://bentaylor.org/Commerce-Server-Mojave-October-CTP-Available-On-Connect.aspx">Mojave</a><a href="http://bentaylor.org/Commerce-Server-Mojave-November-CTP-Released.aspx">CTPs</a>. 
Changes include the completed "out-of-the-box" SharePoint site and a package
that "seamlessly" upgrades existing CS 2007 deployments.  <a href="http://www.microsoft.com/DOWNLOADS/details.aspx?FamilyID=dc30f74f-e510-40b4-8da2-895e33fc9490&amp;displaylang=en">Download
Commerce Server 2009 CTP</a>.
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        <p>
Old news I know, but I was surfing <a href="http://www.nosara.com/playa%20guiones.htm">Playa
Guiones</a> (Costa Rica) at the time (hence the gratuitous holiday photo placement).
</p>
        <p>
If you are using the Commerce Server 2009 CTP, don't forget you can submit feedback
on the <a href="https://connect.microsoft.com/site/sitehome.aspx?SiteID=643">Microsoft
Commerce Server Connect Site</a>.
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      <pubDate>Mon, 12 Jan 2009 10:42:25 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;
&lt;a href="http://bentaylor.org/content/binary/WindowsLiveWriter/CommerceServer2009CTP_967F/ben_taylor_surfing_and_not_thinking_about_commerce_server_2009_2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-bottom: 0px" height="287" alt="Ben Taylor surfing and not thinking about Commerce Server 2009" src="http://bentaylor.org/content/binary/WindowsLiveWriter/CommerceServer2009CTP_967F/ben_taylor_surfing_and_not_thinking_about_commerce_server_2009_thumb.jpg" width="420" align="right" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; Er,
about a month ago, Microsoft released a &lt;a href="http://www.microsoft.com/DOWNLOADS/details.aspx?FamilyID=dc30f74f-e510-40b4-8da2-895e33fc9490&amp;amp;displaylang=en"&gt;CTP
of Commerce Server 2009&lt;/a&gt; (the product formerly known as Commerce Server Mojave).&amp;#160;
This is the first feature complete release of the product, unlike the previous &lt;a href="http://bentaylor.org/Commerce-Server-Mojave-October-CTP-Available-On-Connect.aspx"&gt;Mojave&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://bentaylor.org/Commerce-Server-Mojave-November-CTP-Released.aspx"&gt;CTPs&lt;/a&gt;.&amp;#160;
Changes include the completed &amp;quot;out-of-the-box&amp;quot; SharePoint site and a package
that &amp;quot;seamlessly&amp;quot; upgrades existing CS 2007 deployments.&amp;#160; &lt;a href="http://www.microsoft.com/DOWNLOADS/details.aspx?FamilyID=dc30f74f-e510-40b4-8da2-895e33fc9490&amp;amp;displaylang=en"&gt;Download
Commerce Server 2009 CTP&lt;/a&gt;.
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;
Old news I know, but I was surfing &lt;a href="http://www.nosara.com/playa%20guiones.htm"&gt;Playa
Guiones&lt;/a&gt; (Costa Rica) at the time (hence the gratuitous holiday photo placement).
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;
If you are using the Commerce Server 2009 CTP, don't forget you can submit feedback
on the &lt;a href="https://connect.microsoft.com/site/sitehome.aspx?SiteID=643"&gt;Microsoft
Commerce Server Connect Site&lt;/a&gt;.
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          <img style="border-top-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px" height="104" alt="Picture of the Commerce Server Mojave November CTP files on my hard drive ;)" src="http://bentaylor.org/content/binary/WindowsLiveWriter/CommerceServerMojaveNovemberCTPReleased_13A30/commerce-server-mojave-november-ctp_thumb.png" width="300" align="right" border="0" />
          <a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/tschultz/">Tom
Schultz</a> has just <a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/tschultz/archive/2008/11/22/commerce-server-2007-code-name-mojave-november-2008-ctp-now-available.aspx">announced</a> that
the Commerce Server Mojave November CTP is now available to <a href="https://connect.microsoft.com/Downloads/DownloadDetails.aspx?SiteID=643&amp;DownloadID=14940">download</a>. 
I <em>think </em>this is the last planned CTP before the product ships.  The
download includes the following 3 files:
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          <li>
Commerce Server Code Name Mojave November 2008 CTP Readme.htm 
</li>
          <li>
MojaveInstall.chm - An install guide for Mojave and the Default Site 
</li>
          <li>
CS2K7MOJAVE1.iso - An ISO of the Mojave setup disk. 
</li>
        </ul>
        <p>
          <a href="https://connect.microsoft.com/Downloads/DownloadDetails.aspx?SiteID=643&amp;DownloadID=14940">Download
Commerce Server Mojave November CTP from Microsoft Connect</a>
          <br />
          <em>File Transfer Manager (FTM) not working for me (getting error 12037) but individual
file downloads are</em>.  <em>Requires a Live Id</em>.
</p>
        <p>
Thanks to Tom and the team for getting this up.
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      <pubDate>Sat, 22 Nov 2008 18:43:00 GMT</pubDate>
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&lt;img style="border-top-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px" height="104" alt="Picture of the Commerce Server Mojave November CTP files on my hard drive ;)" src="http://bentaylor.org/content/binary/WindowsLiveWriter/CommerceServerMojaveNovemberCTPReleased_13A30/commerce-server-mojave-november-ctp_thumb.png" width="300" align="right" border="0" /&gt;&lt;a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/tschultz/"&gt;Tom
Schultz&lt;/a&gt; has just &lt;a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/tschultz/archive/2008/11/22/commerce-server-2007-code-name-mojave-november-2008-ctp-now-available.aspx"&gt;announced&lt;/a&gt; that
the Commerce Server Mojave November CTP is now available to &lt;a href="https://connect.microsoft.com/Downloads/DownloadDetails.aspx?SiteID=643&amp;amp;DownloadID=14940"&gt;download&lt;/a&gt;.&amp;#160;
I &lt;em&gt;think &lt;/em&gt;this is the last planned CTP before the product ships.&amp;#160; The
download includes the following 3 files:
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;
Commerce Server Code Name Mojave November 2008 CTP Readme.htm 
&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;
MojaveInstall.chm - An install guide for Mojave and the Default Site 
&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;
CS2K7MOJAVE1.iso - An ISO of the Mojave setup disk. 
&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;p&gt;
&lt;a href="https://connect.microsoft.com/Downloads/DownloadDetails.aspx?SiteID=643&amp;amp;DownloadID=14940"&gt;Download
Commerce Server Mojave November CTP from Microsoft Connect&lt;/a&gt; 
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;em&gt;File Transfer Manager (FTM) not working for me (getting error 12037) but individual
file downloads are&lt;/em&gt;.&amp;#160; &lt;em&gt;Requires a Live Id&lt;/em&gt;.
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;
Thanks to Tom and the team for getting this up.
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