Nikhil's Blog
A .NET dev generalist blog covering pretty much everything under the sun of .NET.
Commerce Server 2007 Staging Error: CatalogImport failed; _FullTextCatalog' cannot be reused until after the next BACKUP LOG operation
In one of the production commerce server instances of my client, I suddenly found this error getting...
Date: 01/18/2009
Commerce Server 2007 Staging Error : "Error occurred with the database StagingLog.mdb"
Yesterday I came across a very strange Commerce Server Staging error at one of the production boxes...
Date: 11/13/2008
Using HttpModules to perform a SSL switch on web pages
A common requirement of any secure website is to make sure that when a user traverses to a...
Date: 09/05/2008
Commerce Server 2007: Accessing multi-valued custom properties in UserObject of Profile System
The MSDN's Managing Profiles section of the commerce server gives an in-depth view of the working of...
Date: 09/04/2008
EntLib 3.1 DAAB: Be careful with the ExecuteReader
The EntLib 3.1 is simply superb, right?! Well, I would give a typical consultant answer... "It...
Date: 07/08/2008
Commerce Server 2007: Catalog Import Error for Large Files
When you are trying to import a large catalog into the commerce server catalog system you might come...
Date: 06/16/2008
HttpHandler to Authorize File Downloads - C# Code Sample
Its quite a common scenario to have a feature in a web site to check for the credentials of the user...
Date: 05/22/2008
.NET 2.0 Symmetric Encryption Code Sample
One of the most common problems when developing any web site if the need to use Symmetric Encryption...
Date: 05/18/2008
Commerce Server 2007 Code Samples - Catalog System and Basic Catalog Search
I did some qualitative analysis of the referrals of my blog, and found that a majority of the search...
Date: 04/14/2008
Multi-Threaded Web Service Calls - A C# Code Sample
Sometimes it becomes necessary to call an external web service in a multi threaded manner to speed...
Date: 04/12/2008
Commerce Server 2007 SetJoin API
The official documentation for the commendable SetJoin API in commerce Server 2007 seems more like a...
Date: 04/01/2008
Commerce Server 2007 Web Services Application Pool Invalid Identity Error
When you are configuring a clean install of Commerce Server 2007, you'll definitely need to go...
Date: 12/03/2007
Passing property values in Remove action using UAB for MSIs
Problem: An application which you are developing is using UAB (Updater Application Block) to pull in...
Date: 06/27/2007
Detecting Session Timeout in ASP.NET 2.0 Web Applications
Problem: An ASP.NET 2.0 web application needs to detect a session timeout condition so that the user...
Date: 06/21/2007
Creating the Other People (aka AddressBook) Certificate Store through Registry
Problem: A common scenario while installing application which consume certificates from the Other...
Date: 05/04/2007
Post-Build script to fix MSI issues in Vista for VS 2005 Setup and Deployment Projects
Problem: The setup project (MSI) output generated out of the VS 2005 IDE fails to run properly on...
Date: 04/25/2007
Using Manifests to Elevate an application in Vista
Problem and the Solution Problem: An application we are developing needs to always ask for Admin...
Date: 04/19/2007
HowTo: Performance Test ASP.NET Web Services using VSTS
This article is targetted at the newbie who's trying to conduct some meaningful performance testing...
Date: 02/05/2007
Performance Testing ASP.NET Web Services using VSTS
HowTo: Performance Test ASP.NET Web Services using VSTS This article is targetted at the newbie...
Date: 02/05/2007