Commerce Server Blog

RCXml2Resx.exe tool stops working

ravikanth — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 12:32:16 +0000

Commerce server Message manager provides us to manage localized message handling. We have to follow series of steps to covert the messages to satellite assemblies. So, here are the steps we should follow. 1. Create and modify RC.XML and include your localized text and languages (you can find in %Commerce_Server_Root%\Sdk\Samples\MessageManager folder). 2. Use RCxml2Resx.exe tool to [...]

Commerce Server Profile Importer Tool

ravikanth — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 09:04:34 +0000

Two years back, I have blogged catalog importer, which will help us to import catalog data into commerce server. I have used this tool in many projects and business users like this tool as it uses excel as input parameter. Recently I see in communities asking for user profile import. User profile has some sensitive [...]

Marketing Web service Exception: SqlDateTime overflow. Must be between 1/1/1753 12:00:00 AM and 12/31/9999 11:59:59 PM

ravikanth — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 03:37:29 +0000

Last week, I faced typical issue when we are trying to approve marketing campaign item from Marketing manager. Our data center is in Europe and business team is sitting in USA. They started complaining that they can’t approve the marketing items from their box and in the server we found following exception in event log. An [...]

Download Commerce Server 2009 Help Document

ravikanth — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 11:18:55 +0000

By default, when you install commerce server 2009, a help document (CHM) is created in your local machine. This document has lot of useful information on CS2009/CS2007. One of the disadvantage of this is that you can’t move this document to another machine. Finbar Ryan (MS CS support team) has created a CHM file using [...]

Commerce Server 2009 work with SharePoint 2010?

ravikanth — Sun, 20 Jun 2010 16:51:19 +0000

At last, my waiting has come to an end when Microsoft has released commerce server 2009 template pack for SharePoint 2010 this week end (17th June 2010). With new CTP R2 and with manual deployment of R2, we can able to make the application work on SPS2010 with no errors. What this template pack, we [...]

Failed to set value for profile property ‘email_address’.

ravikanth — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 20:31:42 +0000

For past few days, the below exception has taken away my sleep. This error occurs in our pre-prod environment and it is totally unpredictable. You may get or may not get with the same data. Profile registration is first page to any ecommerce application and as it is failing here and as usual everyone swords [...]

ArgumentException: An item with the same key has already been added.

ravikanth — Sat, 12 Jun 2010 19:03:00 +0000

After successful application deployment in pre-production environment and when I ran the application start page, I got below exception. We shouted “Not Again”… setting up of CS2009 application is not a simple task and automating the installation is a nightmare (as usual, we doubted our installation tool for not installing the application correctly). The exception [...]