Integrating Custom Resources
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A Microsoft Commerce Server 2007 resource is a software package that provides functionality to the applications in a Commerce Server site, and that must reveal one or more configuration options to a system administrator. Considering the latter requirement, the best choice for how to reveal the configuration options is through Commerce Server Manager. This section describes how to integrate a custom resource that you develop in Commerce Server Manager so that you can administer the resource just as you administer other Commerce Server resources.
Another important aspect of the integration process is the enabling of easy deployment of the particular configuration settings using Commerce Server Site Packager. Depending on the complexity of the configuration data, and on decisions regarding where this configuration data is maintained, the deployment aspects of integration range from effortless to the implementation of a particular Component Object Model (COM) interface.
This section contains information related to extending Commerce Server with custom resources, including:
The steps required to configure the Administration database so that the configuration data associated with a custom resource can be maintained within it.
The different levels of integration that are available to developers of custom resources.
Information about where to learn more about the Microsoft Management Console (MMC), including more information about how to build MMC snap-in extensions.
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