Development Platform and Commerce Server Systems

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Commerce Server 2007 provides the systems, tools, and services that help you to develop a world-class commercial Web site quickly and easily. With the Commerce Server development platform you can build Commerce Server Web applications, customize Commerce Server business logic, and integrate with other applications by using Microsoft BizTalk Server adapters.

The Commerce Server 2007 development platform features the following enhancements:

• Provides a .NET Framework class library that extends and supplements ASP.NET functionality and builds on top of ASP.NET 2.0.

• Adds a new project type for Commerce Server Web applications to Visual Studio 2005 or Visual Studio 2008.

• Implements a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) and provides access to many functions through Web services.

• Supports easy integration and bidirectional synchronization of catalog, inventory, orders, and profiles data with line-of-business (LOB) systems by using the BizTalk Server adapters provided with Commerce Server.

In This Section

• Catalog System

• Inventory System

• Marketing System

• Orders System

• Profiles System

• Business Processing Pipeline System

• ASP.NET and the .NET Framework

• SDK Items and Tools

Related Sections

BizTalk Adapters for Line-of-Business and B2B Trading Partner Integration

Deployment Tools

Introducing Commerce Server 2007