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Windows Vista SP1 Update

Sat, 04/12/2008 - 16:09 — Vish

Customers who applied the Vista SP1 started getting a memory exception during compile. We have issued an emergency patch that fixes this issue.

Please click on this link to download the patch: http://kb.znode.com/node/138

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Visual Studio 2008 Support

Sun, 03/02/2008 - 02:14 — Vish

A number of customers have asked when we will begin supporting Visual Studio 2008. Though we dont "officially" support VS 2008 yet, we have verified that Znode Storefront can be safely migrated to Visual Studio 2008.

Note that Visual Studio 2008 allows you to target multiple .NET Frameworks (2.0, 3.0 and 3.5). We recommend that you set all projects to target a .NET 2.0 build till we officially test Znode Storefront on .NET 3.5

Click the link below to download instructions on converting your Znode Storefront project to Visual Studio 2008

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Critical Update to Version 4.4

Sun, 01/20/2008 - 20:55 — Vish

We have released a HotFix for Znode Storefront version 4.4 that fixes several issues. One of these issues is an intermittent exception thrown in the Application Start event. Please click the link below to read the details of this update and download the patch.

http://kb.znode.com/KB4401

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Exciting new release of Znode Storefront

Mon, 01/07/2008 - 02:26 — Vish

First of all, let me wish a very Happy New Year 2008 to all our customers, partners and vendors!

After weeks of endless testing (and lots of caffeine), the Znode team finally released the next major version (4.4) of Znode Storefront today. This release will be available through the znode.com website as well as all our channel partners worldwide.

As I had mentioned in previous blogs, this release includes a highly versatile promotions and pricing engine that will beat the socks out of any storefront out there! Using this framework, you will be able to handle complex promotion scenarios easily.

Another interesting enhancement is the ability to handle "Digital Assets". For example if you were to sell software or MP3 files and include licenses for use with each sale, you can use Znode Storefront for that.

We also inched closer to full fledged internationalization by adding support for multiple currencies. This is closely tied to the ASP.NET locale settings and is quite extensible.

There are also several other infrastructure enhancements like enhanced exception handling, enhanced diagnostics, integration testing support and more..

Please feel free to check out the Release Notes to see all the features that have been added in this release.

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New Pricing & Promotions Engine

Wed, 11/28/2007 - 13:53 — Vish

We are currently overhauling the pricing model used in Znode (expected to be released in Jan '08). I thought I would let our readers know about this in advance so we can solicit some feedback. The goal is to create an "enterprise class" promotions engine that can satisfy complex requirements.

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Happy Thanksgiving

Wed, 11/21/2007 - 16:28 — Vish

Ok I cant really believe that it is Thanksgiving already! It seems it was just yesterday when we had the last one. Well, things have been extremely hectic here at Znode. But I am not complaining - it has been a great year.

On this occasion I would like to thank all our customers and partners in helping us build a great product. We take great pride and joy in what we do but we wont be here if it wasn't for our customers!

Happy Thanksgiving!

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ASP.NET 2.0 Membership Provider

Tue, 11/13/2007 - 01:38 — Vish

Znode Storefront uses the ASP.NET 2.0 Membership Provider for authentication. This enables you to abstract the authentication layer by writing your own membership provider. For example: To connect to an Active Directory store you would just need to write your own membership provider.

Here's a nice introduction to the ASP.NET 2.0 Membership, Role and Profile service:
http://aspnet.4guysfromrolla.com/articles/120705-1.aspx

This is the section in the web.config file that configures the membership provider in Znode Storefront:

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Keeping the ASP.NET worker process alive

Sun, 11/11/2007 - 16:02 — Vish

You may have noticed that it sometimes takes a while for a new ASP.NET session to start up. This is because if there are no users on a website, the ASP.NET worker process gets recycled. ASP.NET application will remain active only as long as there are active ASP.NET sessions. The next time a user visits your website, ASP.NET compiles your application again. This can cause a delay of 10-20 seconds (or more depending on system resources) for your website to come up.

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Znode developer portal launched

Mon, 11/05/2007 - 05:23 — Vish

We are happy to announce the launch of the new developer portal for Znode Storefront developers and system integrators. We have been getting a large number of interesting queries from our customers on general e-commerce related issues. We thought this blog would be a good place to share our experience so developers can benefit from it.

We also plan to share useful tips that can help developers build a scalable and successful solution for their clients. We are really excited about this! We welcome your feedback to improve this forum.

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