Removed or Deprecated Features
For the latest version of Commerce Server 2007 Help, see the Microsoft Web site.
The following sections provide information about the functions and objects that have been removed, deprecated, or replaced in Commerce Server 2007:
Removed Functions
Business Desk Modules Functional Replacements
Deprecated Objects
Replaced Objects
Removed Functions
Commerce Server 2007 removes the following functionality:
Predictor and segment viewer
Catalog Element -centric import and export XML of Commerce Server 2000 XML schemas
Catalog XDR support
Site Server 3.0 pipeline components and migration objects
Additionally, Commerce Server 2007 no longer supports ASP development or any versions of the Microsoft .NET Framework earlier than 2.0. You can build Commerce Server 2007 applications only on .NET Framework 2.0 with update or 3.0.
Business Desk Modules Functional Replacements
Commerce Server 2007 replaces the Commerce Server 2000/2002 Business Desk Module functionality with Business Management Web service applications to support the daily operations of non-technical business managers, customer support representatives, and other people. The following table summarizes these replacements.
Commerce Server 2000/2002 Business Desk module |
Commerce Server 2007 component |
|---|---|
Business Desk Analysis |
SQL Reporting Services. For information about SQL Reporting Services, see Before You Start Developing with the Data Warehouse Analytics System. |
Business Desk Campaigns |
Marketing Manager. For information about the Marketing Manager, see Managing Your Marketing Campaigns. |
Business Desk Catalog |
Catalog Manager and Catalog and Inventory Schema Manager. For information about the Catalog Manager, see Managing Your Catalogs. For information about the Catalog and Inventory Manager, see Managing Catalog and Inventory Schema. |
Business Desk Orders |
Customer and Orders Manager. For information about the Customer and Orders Manager, see Managing Your Customers and Orders. |
Business Desk Profiles |
Customer and Orders Manager. For information about the Customer and Orders Manager, see Managing Your Customers and Orders. |
Business Desk Security |
Windows Authorization Manager. For information about Windows Authorization Manager, see Managing Authorization Policies. |
Note
The Business Management applications do not have the limitation of ten concurrent users per application that the Business Desk modules had. For information about the Business Management applications, see Business Management Applications. Business Management applications require high bandwidth connectivity.
Deprecated (Obsolete) Objects
The following table lists the programmatic objects that have been deprecated in Commerce Server 2007 and their replacement objects.
Deprecated object |
Replacement |
|---|---|
Provided for backward compatibility only. |
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AuthFilter (ISAPI filter) |
Provided for backward compatibility only to support ISAPI filter Commerce Server authentication. See What Is AuthFilter? Use Commerce Server membership provider, which is the .NET Framework authentication model that integrates Commerce Server profiles with Microsoft ASP.NET logon and registration controls. For more information, see What Is the Commerce Server Membership Provider? |
Provided for backward compatibility only to support AuthManager Commerce Server authentication. See What Is AuthManager? Use Commerce Server membership provider, which is the .NET Framework authentication model that integrates Commerce Server profiles with Microsoft ASP.NET logon and registration controls. For more information, see What Is the Commerce Server Membership Provider? |
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Microsoft.CommerceServer.Interop.Profiles.BizDataAdmin.dll. For more information, see Microsoft.CommerceServer.Interop.Profiles. |
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The new Orders System persistence layer that supports XML persistence intrinsically replaces this object. |
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Use ASP.NET or Catalog API caching. |
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CommerceResourceCollection or SiteConfigReadOnlyFreeThreaded |
Replaced Objects
The following table lists the programmatic objects that have been removed from Commerce Server 2007 and their replacement objects.
Removed object |
Replacement |
|---|---|
CampaignItemManager.NewCampaignItem() |
Specialized creation methods for Discount, Advertisement, and DirectMail replace this object. |
Commerce.ACL |
No replacement required. Windows Smart Client Web services-enabled applications replace the Business Desk modules. |
Commerce.Admin* |
No replacement required. Site Server 3.0 is no longer supported. |
Commerce.AppFramework |
ASP.NET intrinsic controls. |
Commerce.BDSecurity |
Windows Server 2003 Authorization Manager. For more information, see Managing Authorization Policies. |
Commerce.BusinessDataAdmin |
No replacement. |
Commerce.CalcRenderer |
No replacement. Use SQL Reporting Services. |
Commerce.CalcRenderer2 |
No replacement. Use SQL Reporting Services. |
Commerce.CatalogSets |
Catalog System managed API. |
Commerce.CatalogToVendorAssociation |
Catalog custom properties such as vendor ID maintain the association directly in the catalog. |
Commerce.CSFLoadCampaignsCommon |
The Marketing System cache loader components now support extensibility through stored procedures. |
Commerce.DataFunctions |
ASP.NET intrinsic controls. |
Commerce.DictionaryXMLTransforms |
Orders System now supports serialization to/from XML. XDR is obsolete with XSD schemas available. |
Commerce.DTSCacheWarmer |
No replacement. Use SQL Reporting Services. |
Commerce.DTSPredictor |
No replacement. The Predictor feature has been removed. |
Commerce.EuroDisplay |
No replacement. |
Commerce.ExprFltQueryBldr |
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Commerce.GenID |
None. Orders System uses Microsoft.CommerceServer.Runtime.IDCounter. |
Commerce.HTMLLib |
ASP.NET intrinsic controls. |
Commerce.IAdminSite |
No replacement required. Site Server 3.0 is no longer supported. |
Commerce.IMSCSPage_3_0 |
No replacement required. Site Server 3.0 is no longer supported. |
Commerce.ListManager |
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Commerce.MicroPipe |
No replacement required. In the .NET Framework, you can create and run a pipeline component directly. |
Commerce.OrderGroup, Commerce.OrderGroupManager |
Managed OrderGroup and OrderForm as part of the new Orders System. |
Commerce.Page |
No replacement required. Site Server 3.0 is no longer supported. |
Commerce.PredictorServiceAdmin, Commerce.PredictorServiceSiteAdmin, Commerce.PredictorModelBuilder |
No replacement required. The Predictor feature has been removed. |
Commerce.ReportRenderer |
No replacement required. Use SQL Reporting Services. |
Commerce.ShippingMethodManager, Commerce.Shipping |
Replaced with shipping method management components in the new Orders System, ShippingMethodManager and ShippingMethod. |
CS_GroupMgr.GroupManager |
No replacement required. |
Dependency network viewer |
No replacement required. The Predictor feature has been removed. |
Discount.BasketDisplay |
Replaced with MultiLingualBasketDisplay. |
DynTableMarshaller (internal) |
No replacement required. Used by Business Desk modules to calculate tax and shipping charges. Windows Smart Client Web services-enabled applications replace the Commerce Server Business Desk modules. |
IMSCSStandardSManager_3_0 |
No replacement required. Site Server 3.0 is no longer supported. |
ListManagerLib.dll |
Replaced with MailingListManager. |
Microsoft.CommerceServer.Messages |
No replacement required. |
Microsoft.CommerceServer.Runtime.CommerceServerInfo |
No replacement required. |
RegionalTax.dll (Regional tax pipeline component) |
Use third-party components to perform tax calculations. |
ReportMsgIntf |
No replacement required. |