Product3.PricingCategory Property (PIA)

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11/12/2009

The PricingCategory property is a read/write String that contains the name of the pricing category for this product.

Definition

[Visual Basic .NET]

Imports Microsoft.CommerceServer.Interop.Catalog
Imports ADODB26Lib     ' for _Recordset
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Public Property PricingCategory As String

[C#]

using Microsoft.CommerceServer.Interop.Catalog;
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public string PricingCategory {get; set;}

Property Value

A string that contains the pricing category.

Exceptions

This property may throw one of many mapped exceptions or an exception of type COMException. See Standard COM Errors for additional details.

The following table shows the custom COM errors that a COMException can wrap.

Constant	Value	Description
E_CAT_VC_NOT_A_SUPPLIER_CATALOG	[C#] 0x889800F9 [Visual Basic .NET] &H889800F9	Invalid catalog type. This API can only be called on a base catalog.
E_CAT_PRODUCT_DOESNT_EXIST	[C#] 0x8898001E [Visual Basic .NET] &H8898001E	The product you specified does not exist.
E_CAT_CATEGORY_DOESNT_EXIST	[C#] 0x8898001C [Visual Basic .NET] &H8898001C	The category you specified does not exist.
E_CAT_PRICING_CAT_PRICELESS	[C#] 0x8898002F [Visual Basic .NET] &H8898002F	The category you specified has no list price. The list price of the category must be set before using this for pricing.

Remarks

Using a category as a Pricing category allows you to set the prices of multiple products by making a single change, rather than having to change the price for each product. Setting the Pricing category for a product family will also set the Pricing category for all the variants of the product family.

Requirements

Namespace: Microsoft.CommerceServer.Interop.Catalog

Platforms: Windows 2000, Windows Server 2003

Assembly: Cataloglib (in Cataloglib.dll)

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