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Enhancing your ASPDotNetStorefront Search Page

I recently completed a search page upgrade on one of my client websites (http://www.tobacco-barn.com) and was pleased enough with some of the code on this that I thought I’d share it with the community. Our goals were as follows: Limit search to just show products and not each variant of the a product Include images …

Recursing Through AppConfig File

While doing some updates to the EmmCLA program (more to come on this soon), I needed to have it loop through all the AppSettings in in App.Config file (the same should hold true for Web.Config for web apps) to find all occurrences of appsettings that were similar to a certain string. A few Google searches …

Webgains, ASPDotnetStorefront and Google Checkout, Oh My!

I got a Google Alert about an article posted recently by UK Developers over at WebOpius. The put together a nice little piece about how to get all three of these technologies up and running, and better yet, playing nicely together. This is the first of many posts by them on this subject. I very …

Canada's Anti-Spam Bill

Here’s what you need to know about Canada’s Anti-Spam Bill that was recently introduced. Three are some significant differences between this and the US CAN-SPAM legislation that businesses will want to keep in mind as they pursue their marketing plans involving email communications with customers and potential customers alike. Canada’s Electronic Commerce Protection Act (ECPA) …

Making Google Apps Your Default Mail Provider in Vista

I was doing some research lately in order to help a client set up their Google Apps (Gmail) account set up as the default mail client in Vista lately when I found a link on About.com that states: Unfortunately, you cannot set the Gmail web interface as your default email program in Windows Vista. You …

EMM and AspDotNetStorefront v8.0.1.1

UPDATED:  If you don’t mind getting your hands dirty, you can do the following to all of the xaEmm*.aspx.cs files in order to get this working with your website: Add a Using reference to AspDotNetStorefrontCore to the top of the file as shown below:     I’m sure purists might insist that you actually replace …